MILAN - As balconies bristle with tree branches and sunshine dapples the leaves of thousands of plants, two apartment buildings in the heart of Milan have almost disappeared under lush forest.
CAYO SANTIAGO, Puerto Rico - As thousands of troops and government workers struggle to restore normal life to Puerto Rico, a small group of scientists is racing to save more than 1,000 monkeys whose brains may contain clues to some of the most important mysteries of the human mind.
GABORONE, Botswana - Kabo Kolobe said he found the "peace and love" in tai chi and is now passing the message on at his training base Botswana.
PARIS - People, it seems, have never been so afraid of their food - and, say some experts, an obsession with healthy eating may paradoxically be endangering lives.
The sunset glow on the snow-covered plateau is an enchanting opener for Tibet at night - a stargazer's paradise.
Venice, Italy - With almost every street, bridge, historic building and canal bustling with tourists and gondolas, a locally traditional rowing boat, some Venetians finally started to feel enough of it.
Chinese bamboo flute player Tang Junqiao will team up her students from the Tang Junqiao Bamboo Flute Ensemble of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music to do two performances on Oct 15 at Beijing's Poly Theater.
NAIROBI - Kenya's Elius Magu has nurtured a passion for arts since childhood and his one-bedroom house located in a low-income Nairobi suburb attests to that fact.
NAIROBI - When Jackson Wang made a majestic stride across a hotel lobby in Kenya's capital Nairobi recently, local patrons cast adoring glances at the elegantly dressed Chinese artist whose ability to mimic the late American singer, Michael Jackson, is beyond comprehension.
There are countless well-preserved ancient buildings in Huangshan, formerly known as Huizhou, in Anhui province, and one of their prominent features is the exquisite brick carvings above their doorways.
Tiangong Kaiwu, published in 1637, is regarded as one of the first encyclopedias recording handcraft production in China. Its chapter on ink calls the Hui ink stick, made by artisans in Huizhou, now known as Huangshan, in Anhui province, the best of its kind.
Mention traditional Chinese painting and many people will think of the ink-wash type, which mainly uses ink and water to depict objects of different shades, from black to gray and white.
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