General Manager of the Beijing clubhouse of Hong Kong Jockey Club makes sure he keeps a steady hand on the pulse of its privileged members.
French police who stopped a 79-year old man Wednesday discovered that he had been driving without a license for nearly 60 years.
You would be forgiven for mistaking an image of US President Barack Obama in Guangling for a photograph.
With Japan suffering its worst heatwave since records began in 1898, haunted houses or "obake yashiki" are doing a roaring trade as the traditional summertime venues to cool off.
A school principal has come under fire after making his primary school students replace a "gay" Kookaburra sitting in an old gum tree with a "fun" bird in the classic Australian song.
A German company that fired a man for the theft of 1.8 euro cents (two U.S. cents) worth of electricity had no grounds for sacking him, a court ruled, dismissing the firm's appeal against his reinstatement.
Scotland's government announced on Thursday that its planned minimum price for alcohol would be set at 45 pence per unit, meaning a bottle of wine would cost at least 4.23 pounds ($6.52) and a bottle of whisky 12.60 pounds.
God did not create the universe and the "Big Bang" was an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics, the eminent British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking argues in a new book.
The Dutch Finance Ministry Thursday acknowledged it was defrauded out of more than 160,000 euros ($204,800) earlier this year by an employee of the ministry unit that handles the state's financing needs.
Canadian parents are more lenient with their children than mothers and fathers in France and Italy, according to a new study.
A British airplane en route to Poland was forced to make an emergency landing in Germany after a 56-year-old woman spilled a hot cup of tea on herself, German police said on Wednesday.
A number of Dutch colleges are considering legal action against the publisher of a move-in guide for new freshmen, after the company included an ad recruiting students for jobs as online sex workers.
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