A 24-year-old woman writer from Beijing recently won a top national literature award for her flair in short story writing.
8-year-old Chrissy Turner was diagnosed with a very rare breast cancer called secretory breast carcinoma shortly after she reportedly told her parents around mid of October that she had a lump on her chest.
Popular holiday Thanksgiving Day is celebrated on the last Thursday of November every year and this year, it happens to fall on Nov. 26.
The Holderness family has created a 2015 Thanksgiving video mix that parodies some of the hottest tunes in the music world. Their Turkey Day mash-up clip was uploaded on November 19, Thursday, and since then the music video has gone viral on YouTube and social networks including Facebook and Twitter, and racked up more than 1.5 million views. It is the latest in the family's original videos that feature their quirky characters.
The legal academic exchange between Chinese and Romanian experts has kicked off on Monday, Nov. 23. Scholars from both ends gathered during the global conference titled "Law in a Transformed Society."
In a report by China Daily, renowned dancer-choreographer Hou Ying opens up about the world of performance art and contemporary dance. Hou is the founder of the Hou Ying Dance Theater, which will be staging a show called "Tu Tu" in Beijing this weekend.
After hungry family members have finished their Thanksgiving dinner of roasted turkey, bread crumb stuffing, and green bean casserole, they can thank their gut microbes for sending a signal to their brain that they are full. A new study shows that 20 minutes after completing a meal, stomach bacteria Escherichia coli make proteins whose hormones control the amount of food eaten, by affecting the host's brain circuits. The neurons will know if the stomach has room for pumpkin pie or the person should skip dessert.
"Planes, Trains and Automobiles," "Rocky I" and "Addams Family Values" are highly recommended Thanksgiving movies.
Following the ruthless Paris terrorist attacks by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) extremist group, Belgian police asked the country's citizens not to make any Twitter posts about its operations to hunt down the ISIS terrorists. The country's federal law enforcement asked the capital city's residents to support the hashtag #BrusselsLockdown during the terror alert, which resulted in pet owners posting funny cat photos that later went viral.
The Chinese government’s local industrial standards branch is currently looking into regulating recipes that fall under Xi’an cuisine, according to a report by China Daily. This is following the cuisine’s recent rise to popularity.
A scientific breakthrough by the University of California system could halt the spread of malaria in some regions of the world forever. It involves genetically-modified (GM) mosquitoes to prevent the buzzing bugs from passing on certain genes to their offspring. That could end a worldwide epidemic that threatens almost half the world's population.
Married couples may find helpful the "China Report on Happy Marriage and Family," released on Thursday, Nov. 19, which suggests that loyalty, consideration and mutual understanding are the key elements of a satisfying marital relationship.
The Peking Opera returned to the U.K. for the first time in 10 years. The tour included two plays, "Farewell My Concubine" and "The Warrior Women of Yang."
A picture of a baby wearing the state police hat of her mother who was killed by the vehicle of a person who was allegedly drinking and driving, has gone viral. Trooper Jaimie Jursevics was investigating a car crash while on duty when the vehicle struck her, and she was pronounced dead at the scene of the hit and run. The heartbreaking Facebook photo of her infant daughter was posted by the Colorado county sheriff's office where the police officer worked.
Women living in the United States' West Coast states of California and Oregon will legally be allowed to purchase over-the-counter (OTC) hormonal contraceptives within the next few months. New laws will allow them to buy birth control pills directly from pharmacists, without needing to obtain a doctor's prescription. Public health supporters in states with high "unintended pregnancy" rates hope that new bills will provide access to birth control blocked by federal law.
