NBA playoffs have fresh look

Spurs and Celtics? Already eliminated.

Score board

Nobody's voice broke as many hearts as his did

Percy Sledge was a struggling 25 year-old soul singer, making ends meet by working as a hospital orderly, when, on the recommendation of a patient, in February 1966 he walked into a small studio in the town of Sheffield, Alabama, owned by a local disc jockey named Quinn Ivy to make his first record.

The grand designs of Alphonse Mucha

"When my grandfather went to America, it was like the Beatles," says John Mucha. "He made the front pages of the newspapers and was feted wherever he went."

Long & dwindling road between sleep & work

The high cost of housing in Beijing and other metropolises has forced people to move outside their city, but that means they face a daily trek that can take hours on crowded buses

Almost human

When Li Mingming and Gong Meng, founders of SpaceH, decided to build a robot in Oct 2013, they wanted to do something to help their families.

Will robots replace human labor?

Robots in sci-fi movies are almost omnipotent. In Artificial Intelligence, for example, they can provide services including prostitution, and comfort a heartbroken mother by being her child.

Baidu chasing Google in race to create real AI

Since Alan Turing proposed the concept of artificial intelligence in the 1950s, human beings have exerted great efforts to create machines that can think and communicate like humans.

The fairest robot of them all

Which is your favorite robot?

Warplanes continue to pound Houthi targets

Warplanes from a Saudi-led coalition struck Houthi targets in and around the Yemeni cities of Aden and Ibb early on Thursday, residents said.

Kim Jong-un to visit Russia for ceremony

Kim Jong-un, leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, is likely to visit Russia early next month to attend a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany in World War II, Russia's ambassador to Seoul said on Thursday.

NBA leads way in sport diplomacy with training

The NBA is the first US professional league to visit sports-crazy Cuba since the declaration of detente between the Cold War enemies late last year, while the Vatican has announced the pope will also visit Cuba en route to the United States.