Known for its wisdom, the owl has the attention of one of Beijing's restaurateurs. Alexandra Leyton Espinoza sets chase to find out why.
When seen from a vertical perspective, most of the world's major mega-cities are like a pyramid. The tallest buildings and highest concentration of businesses and people are in the city center.
Surviving muddy mountain routes, dizzying altitudes, raging rivers and landslides, D J Clark finally spots the endangered snow monkey deep in the forests of northern Yunnan
Psychologists have discovered that some of the most hallowed advice on study habits is wrong.
It is lunchtime at what may be the world's largest free eatery.
Venture capitalists must separate visionary entrepreneurs from the simply deluded erally collapses.
Beyond the leaders, the conferences and the official events that dominate headlines, everyday people around the world find ways to make life extraordinary.
Just like people, some buildings have a je ne sais quoi that can only be described as sex appeal.
Authorities in Guizhou are making a concerted effort to save the delicate art of handcrafted Miao embroidery from losing out to its more-affordable machine-made counterpart.
Two would-be Albanian bank robbers were arrested Wednesday as they tried to drill a passageway into a bank vault from a shop they had rented above it, police officials said.
Flowers picked up to 150 years ago in Victorian England show that old collections of pressed plants around the world can help the study of climate change, scientists said on Wednesday.
The Titanic hit an iceberg in 1912 because of a basic steering error, and only sank as fast as it did because an official persuaded the captain to continue sailing, an author said in an interview published on Wednesday.
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