As Arctic blizzards swept across southeast England, stranding hundreds in their cars and bringing motorways to a virtual halt in whiteout conditions, Kent police received a strange call on their emergency number.
An ocean voyage to prove that ancient Austronesians originally came from China has been successfully completed by Hiria Ottino.
While cruelty to animals has been a longstanding feature of man's dominion over nature, "snuff bunny videos" are a relatively new cultural phenomenon, thanks to the Internet.
Folk artist Yu Guiming has turned over a new leaf - or, more precisely, he has folded and cut one into a replica of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa.
Forget the turkey and the football -- if it's Thanksgiving Day, why aren't you shopping?
It was Big Macs, chicken nuggets and fries at a wedding banquet in Northern Mexico on Friday.
A new tool of communication called the 'drift diary' is doing the rounds among young college graduates. Guo Shuhan reports.
Exploding engines and terrorist threats have got nothing on the latest threat facing American air travelers.
As young Chinese increasingly forget how to write characters because they don't have to using keyboards, touch screen technology on mobile phones is reversing the drift
The State Administration of Cultural Heritage (SACH) and State Ocean Administration (SOA) have signed an agreement to jointly make underwater cultural heritage protection one of the key issues of China's ocean strategy.
Scientists warn inaction may put coastal cities under water.
A record high of 690,923 international students came to American colleges and universities last year, according to a recent report from the Institute of International Education. And who wouldn't want to do so when student life seems a little easier these days? for better or worse?
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