Seismic activity on the Chinese mainland will remain at an average level despite a recent spate of disastrous earthquakes worldwide, the China Earthquake Administration said.

Haisong Jiang, who slipped past a security checkpoint on Jan. 3, causing a shutdown of Newark Airport, pleaded guilty to defiant trespass.

When she was younger, English professor Yang Jia dreamed of being like characters in the books she read.

One of Hollywood’s “celluloid ceilings” has been smashed now that Kathryn Bigelow has become the first female ever to win a Best Director Oscar.

The photograph shows a starkly handsome Chinese man walking with a model's measured gait, and wearing a rag-tag but well co-ordinated overcoat on top of a leather jacket. His eyes peer into the middle distance, in what one fan described as "a deep and penetrating way", and he strides confidently forward.

Dale Welch recently walked into a Starbucks in Virginia, handgun strapped to his waist, and ordered a banana Frappuccino with a cinnamon bun. He says the firearm drew a double-take from at least one customer, but not a peep from the baristas.

Younger adults who get either little sleep or a lot of it may see a greater expansion in their waistlines over time, a study published suggests.

THE new year always brings an old problem for students who return to campus after a long winter holiday spent lounging around at home. As the spring semester begins, some students find themselves having to adapt to college life all over again - a process they refer to as "the holiday blues", or "post-holiday syndrome".

Time to get back to work, right? Well, not everyone is. Which brings us to our next major topic: The labor shortage.

Toyota Motor President Akio Toyoda on Monday apologized to Chinese consumers - who make up the world's biggest auto market - over the company's massive global recall.

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said Saturday that his mother suffered a cerebral hemorrhage when she saw the shoe-throwing incident at Cambridge University on TV last year.

With the Winter Games just over a month away, promotional banners finally began going up in Vancouver, which will soon play host to the Olympics and the world.

Could your cellphone give you cancer? Whether it could or not, some people are worrying about the possibility that phones, powerlines and wi-fi could be responsible for a range of illnesses, from rashes to brain tumors.

In space, no one can hear you scream or listen to your iPod.

Rising temperatures and drizzle may have pointed the way to a new spring and a new future, but the job status of many students is still uncertain. Still, they might want to take heart, because March is often called the “silver” job-hunting season.