Reading Time: 2 minutesChinese media reports claim wealthy people can buy access to a restored section of the Forbidden City to entertain family and friends.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteElmar Weisser, 47, beat 160 contestants to the prize with his elaborate facial hair sculpture of a moose.
Reading Time: 2 minutesPeople left their homes in the two towns of Kawamata and Iitate to spend their first night in evacuation centres.
Reading Time: 1 minuteThe Swiss are uneasy that so many foreign citizens are coming to Switzerland because assisted suicide remains illegal in their own countries.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn Taiwan there is excited speculation about a celebrity pregnancy - with a difference. All attention is on Yuan Yuan, the giant...
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOn May 13, 1981, Pope John Paul II was shot four times and seriously wounded in St. Peters Square by Turkish assailant...
Reading Time: 3 minutesCabinet members, representatives of international organizations in the traffic security and health fields, traffic security agents volunteers attended the event organized on the...
Reading Time: 2 minutespains prime minister is touring the quake-ravaged city of Lorca for a first-hand look at the damage that caused thousands of people to...
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA disgruntled ex-employee at a rural bank in north-west Gansu province is said to have thrown the bomb into the building, reports...
Reading Time: 2 minutesNine people were killed when a magnitude-5.1 quake struck the town, just two hours after one measuring 4.4