The manager of a restaurant in Wuhan, Hubei province, swallowed a dead fly lying in a customer's bowl of noodles on Tuesday.
A homeless garbage collector was in for a pleasant surprise when cops found him on a Shanghai roadside recently. He learnt he wasn't exactly poor.
Who says you can't buy friends? An Australian online marketing company is selling friends and fans to Facebook members after offering a similar service to Twitter users.
A government proposal to tweak the way a few dozen Chinese characters are written has provoked an unexpected uproar from the public, who have accused the education ministry of unnecessary meddling in tradition.
A hidden layer featuring the erect penis of Greek fertility god Priapus has been discovered in a painting by French artist Nicolas Poussin.
The manager of Cumberland's Pencil Museum has expressed her delight over Coronation Street's namecheck of the establishment.
We're all dining out less, staying at home more and making our own lunch more often, with a global survey showing almost everybody is getting by with less this year due to the economic downturn.
Colin Beavan so despaired at a lack of political action on climate change that he decided to see what difference he could make by living for a year with as little impact on the environment as possible.
As thousands of girls and young women prepare to start the new school year in France, activists are sounding the alarm over those who are missing -- teenagers sent abroad over the holidays and forced into marriage.
The number of Australians tying the knot has hit a 20-year high, reversing the trend for an institution that appeared to be going out of fashion only a few years ago, according to official data.
A couple in Hong'an county, Hubei province, woke up in the middle of the night on Monday sensing something strange crawling on the bed. It was a snake.
Three pandas that were shifted from Sichuan province to a zoo in Yunnan after last year's earthquake are extremely angry these days because they aren't served milk.
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