The exceptionally dry early summer months in Britain have revealed the ghostly outlines of several hundred previously unknown ancient sites buried in fields across the English countryside.
The Edinburgh Fringe Festival reported ticket sales of almost two million during the three-week run of the world's biggest annual artistic gathering of seasoned performers and complete newcomers in the fields of comedy, dance, theater and song.
There was the comforting glow of computer screens and clack of keys being pressed on hundreds of keyboards as youngsters hunched over their terminals at a cyber caf near the train station in Ordos, Inner Mongolia autonomous region.
The Dutch are set to live longer -- good news for them but bad news for insurers that are expected to suffer from higher capital requirements and tighter profit margins as a result.
A man appeared in court on Tuesday accused of trying to dazzle pilots with a laser beam as they were landing at France's second-busiest airport Paris Orly, aviation authorities said.
When I moved from the United States to Beijing last year, I thought I would learn Chinese.
The two-month long summer vacation for students is hardly a break from studies, with at least 40 percent of them spending their time in training schools, according to a recent survey by the Horizon Research Consultancy Group.
Students with low university entrance exam scores are flocking to Jiangsu province's Jiangyan for intensive training, betting on brighter job prospects with one more year's toil.
A French daredevil climber who has scaled skyscrapers around the world was arrested in Sydney on Monday after climbing a 57-storey building and into the arms of waiting police.
Remains of the earliest known feast in a cave in Israel show that humans have been bringing food to funerals for millennia and suggest that burial feasts may have helped shape modern society, researchers said on Monday.
Older people like reading negative news stories about their younger counterparts because it boosts their own self-esteem, according to a new study.
Equal pay for men and women remains a pipe dream in Australia with a report on Monday showing the pay gap between the sexes is wider now than 30 years ago.
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