A 91-year-old woman won the top prize at Australia's main open-air art exhibition at Sydney's Bondi Beach on Thursday for a granite carving she completed 13 years ago.
Halloween is a bad time of year for black cats, with their long-standing connections with witches, hubble-bubble and evil.
Yongchun boxing, once a popular form of kungfu in the southern China during the Qing dynasty, is gradually coming back in vogue in Guangzhou, Guangdong province.
A careless resident of Dadukou district, Chongqing municipality, thanked his stars for good neighbors who stood guard outside his wide open door till he returned from work on Thursday.
A pet cat scratched on the bedroom door of her owner's house in Shenyang, Liaoning province, till she woke up and realized her electric blanket was on fire last Wednesday.
A postbox in Rzedziny, northeast Poland was not emptied by the local postman for five years.
A flight from Edinburgh to London was cancelled after a passenger claimed to have spotted a tarantula crawling between his legs.
Coffee drinkers at a popular Israeli chain can have their fortunes told for free if they buy a cup of the brew that leaves grounds at the bottom.
No need to curse that bad driver weaving in and out of the lane in front of you -- he cannot help it, U.S. researchers reported on Wednesday.
If you've always wanted to live like an Italian heiress, supermodel, pop star and wife of a European head of state, there's a castle on the market in Turin that might be worth a look.
The population of brown bears in France is now so small that the species might become extinct in the near future, according a study, but introducing new females to the region could help reverse the decline.
Five Filipino transvestites have gone on trial in Shanghai, accused of drugging men with adulterated foods before robbing them in a city with a reputation for an adventurous nightlife
Copyright 1995 - 2010 . All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to China Daily Information Co (CDIC). Without written authorization from CDIC, such content shall not be republished or used in any form. Note: Browsers with 1024*768 or higher resolution are suggested for this site.
License for publishing multimedia online 0108263 Registration Number: 20100000002731 
