Farming is not just for peasants. It's become a trend even among those with cushier backgrounds.
Ni Dingkang opens Google Earth and browses 1,390 islands scattered around Zhoushan, the only prefecture-level city in China made up solely of islands, in Zhejiang province.
"Goddess Fan, marry me! I want to stew chicken soup for you all my life!" reads the imaginative marriage proposal from Zheng Siqin, on a billboard in a bus shelter in Wuhan, Hubei province.
Beijingers are paying good money to learn about the world of grapes.
The recent earthquakes in Southwest China and Japan have given preparedness a new urgency in schools across the nation.
Shengnu, or "leftover women", has become the subject matter of numerous films, novels and TV series.
One of the world's most prestigious competitions for young violinists, the Menuhin Competition, will be held in Beijing from April 6 to 15, 2012.
For years, so many twins have been born in the small southern Brazilian town of Candido Godoi that residents wonder whether something mysterious lurks in the water, or even if Josef Mengele, the Nazi physician known as the Angel of Death, conducted experiments here.
Shooting skyward like a jagged knife, the giant stump in a cul-de-sac in this Northern California town is by all appearances dead.
Lots of stuff piled onto shelves or stacked in the middle of store aisles can coax a shopper to buy more.
Along the rivers of the Amazon rain forest, people still recount legends in which pink dolphins are magical creatures that can turn into men and impregnate women. Brazilian musicians write songs about them.
Slip on the white lab coat, adjust the headphones and listen as a voice tells you to close your eyes and breathe. A science experiment? Perhaps. But it's a $20 dessert at Park Avenue Winter in New York, and it was the work of tthe performance artist Marina Abramovic.