The world's biggest and most famous beer festival, the Oktoberfest, celebrates its 200th anniversary this year.
Guinness World Record's Smallest Living Dog, Boo Boo, poses during a photo call in New York September 15, 2010.
It's that time of year again when many Beijing families are bidding an emotional farewell to their adult offspring, who are finally leaving the nest for a year or two of independent living in overseas educational establishments.
As the cold winds of winter creep in, people look to their homes for the comfort of warmth.
Chi Zijian's characters exist in a world that is both banal and mundane, but it is one that is also filled with the rituals and magic of the semi-nomadic, animistic culture of the Greater Hinggan Mountains.
Mix the dramas leading up to a wedding with extreme plastic surgery and what do you get? A bridal reality TV show in which the final surprise is saved for at the altar.
Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch have some new friends.
More than 500 years after Spanish priests brought wheat seeds to Mexico to make wafers for the Catholic Mass, those seeds may bring a new kind of salvation to farmers hit by global warming.
As many as one-third of Dutch farmers consider themselves to be in financial trouble, and a similar percentage feel abandoned by society, according to a new study by farm organizations and a public television show.
A ritual sacrifice of chickens that are also twirled about one's head to atone for sins ahead of the Yom Kippur holiday has come under fire in Israel where animal activists want it outlawed.
A German woman has come up with a novel idea to give dogs going to weddings or festivals a bit of style.
Science with the potential to make coal burn cleaner.