A 65-year-old woman in North China's Tianjin applied for postgraduate studies for a third time, making her famous as a "postgraduate grandma".

Olympic swimming champion Sun Yang apologized publicly on Monday morning after he was stopped for driving without a license.In an online post on his micro blog, Sun said he drove a relative's SUV and collided with a bus in Hangzhou, capital of East China's Zhejiang province, on Sunday afternoon.

Chinese hurdler and 2008 Olympic Gold medalist Liu Xiang showed up at a mobilization meeting for athletes slated for the 2016 Olympic Games, in Jinggang Mountain, Jiangxi province, on Sunday, Beijing News reported. Liu said he is taking rehabilitation training but doesn't know when he will compete again.

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his wife, Qian Wei, participated in a charity sales event on Saturday in Chaoyang District, Beijing, Beijing News reported. Representatives from 93 embassies and branches of international organizations in China, and 18 enterprises offered special goods from their countries at the event. The 3 million yuan in sales on Saturday will be donated to build water cellars in two counties of Yunnan province.

A 32-year-old woman stole a newborn baby out of a hospital in Xiangtan city, Hunan province, Beijing Times reported. Pretending to be a family member of the new mother, she slept two nights in the patient room before she took the baby, about 5:00 am on Friday, when the baby's family were asleep.

A new national standard says each subway train can have at most 0.8 accidents for every 10,000 km of operation. The standard, released on Sunday by the Standardization Administration of China, was criticized by many netizens, who said that would mean each subway train can have two accidents a month.

China's online dating websites are facing challenges from social networking apps as more people are looking for their beloved through mobile apps such as WeChat. Net profits at jiayuan.com, one of China's leading online dating websites, dropped by 36.4 percent in the second quarter, compared with the same period last year, PE Daily reported.

East China's Jiangxi province shut down three companies for dying oranges using toxic chemicals. The companies in Ganzhou city were found dying oranges with Phenylazo, better known as Sudan Red, to make them better-looking and popular with consumers, China National Radio reported.