Employees who fritter time away on Facebook, Twitter and other social media Web sites are costing British businesses billions, new research suggests.
Britain released hundreds of previously secret "UFO files" on Thursday including a letter saying that Winston Churchill had ordered a 50 year cover-up of a wartime encounter between a UFO and military pilot.
The Japanese city of Hiroshima, reduced to ashes by a U.S. nuclear bomb in 1945, holds its annual commemoration of that attack on Friday, but this will be the first year that a U.S. representative will take part.
Too shy to read the Kama Sutra on the train during rush hour? Just take out your headphones.
A Michigan man credited his dog with saving his life by chewing off his diseased big toe as he lay passed out in a drunken stupor.
A Malaysian state is to allow Muslim girls under the age of consent of 16 years to wed in a bid to stem unwed pregnancies, angering the country's women's activists and politicians.
Living in Beijing, I don't usually come into contact with the Cantonese language, except when a Hong Kong magazine is thrown in my lap at the nail salon or Canto-pop drifts into my open window from a karaoke-equipped restaurant downstairs.
Beijingers have long been known as excellent bargainers, and tuangou, or group buying, is Internet commerce with a Chinese twist.
The story remains the same, only the names of the heartbroken have changed. "Lee" and "May" have been dating for more than five years.
A pair of high-heeled woolly Ugg boots to be worn by Australia's representative at the Miss Universe Pageant later this month has come under fire on two fronts -- tackiness and animal cruelty.
Every year Britain's Queen Elizabeth II invites some of her subjects to a garden party at Buckingham Palace.
Yacht training schools are springing up in the country's major costal cities as more and more people look to enjoy a nautical life, Mei Jia and Dai Yan reports.
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