Beijing’s initiative to ease congestion and other urban ills is forcing thousands of merchants to relocate, according to a report by the Global Times. Many of these vendors are unsure where to go next.
As Beijing relaxes its grip on its one-child policy, an estimated 100 million Chinese couples will be eligible for a second child, according to a report by China Daily.
China will attempt to increase grain imports during the 13th Five-Year Plan period (2016-2020) instead of upgrading its farming capacity, according to a report by China Daily.
A new study predicts how extreme heat temperatures can hit the Persian Gulf by 2100 due to climate change impacts.
Saudi princes are misbehaving one after the other. After one was sued in September in the U.S. for rape, another was detained on Sunday at Beirut Airport after he was caught with two tons of amphetamine. The drugs popular among Syrian rebels was found in the private jet of Prince Abdel Mohsen Bin Walid Bin Abdulaziz.
Twitter exec Rishi Jaitly has confirmed that the recent AlDub hashtag, ALDubEBTamangPanahon, has the record for the most number of tweets for an event.
The Teal Pumpkin Project is a new campaign that gives kids with allergies a chance to enjoy a fun-filled Halloween on October 31, Saturday, by tweaking the orange, thick-skinned fruit used for jack-o'-lanterns. Participants are putting bright blue-colored pumpkins on their porches to keep the tradition fun and safe by offering children allergen-free alternatives to the standard giveaways of mini candy bars, taffy, peanut butter cups, candy corn, and liquorish. Households taking part in the campaign will fill the trick-or-treat bags of kids in costumes with non-food goodies, to prevent allergic reactions.
But the commission says the bear hunt is just one way it manages bears and touts the growth of the Florida black bear population as "one of Florida's biggest conservation success stories." The commission will keep hunting open until Friday - if the hunting goal isn't met sooner.
A UFO fan is claiming that a baby polar bear with hair walking on Mars is spotted in a recent photo taken by NASA and is planning to alert the United Nations.
NASA's New Horizons probe is now headed 1 billion miles away for its next target after Pluto, while sending back images of Pluto's tiniest moon, Kerberos.
The Communist Party of China (CPC) has reshuffled more than half of Central Committee members elected during the 18th CPC National Congress in 2012, moving them to different positions or removing them from their current jobs, ahead of the CPC's fifth plenary session on Monday, Oct. 26, the Global Times reported.
The U.S. Coast Guard spotted a group of 20 great white sharks at around 100 yards from the shore in central California.
Oprah has given her name and face to Weight Watchers for the next five years, while also latching into its business and board, but she might need to do more than that to bring Weight Watchers out of the woods. She has on countless occasions opened up about the problems she's facing with weight, and added that Weight Watchers might be able to help her out now.
A study published in the Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma suggests that treating acromio-clavicular (AC) joint dislocation with surgery might not always be the best, and that alternative treatments such as sling and rehabilitation among other non-invasive therapy are best.
A study published in the journal Science Advances by researchers from the Institut de Radioastronomie Millimétrique in Spain suggest 21 complex organic molecules, including ethyl alcohol and simple sugar glycolalde, have been detected in the cloud material ejected by Comet Lovejoy as it neared the sun - signifying that elements for building life was already present in our solar system long before Earth and other planets were formed.
