No bad-hair day

2011-08-02 08:18:35

Long before Charlotte Free, the of-the-moment fashion model, became known for her brightly colored hair.

Intimate trends

2011-07-31 08:30:08

Last October, Meike Winnemuth won Germany's version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. Six months later, she was in Shanghai.

Skateboarding in a half-pipe house

2011-07-31 08:27:32

Last year, Francois Perrin, an architect in Los Angeles, was approached with an intriguing proposition.

What's on

2011-07-29 08:01:34

James Blunt, singer and writer of global hits such as You're Beautiful and Goodbye My Lover , is coming to China.

Singing away the Beijing blues

2011-07-29 08:01:34

A Beijing bar is hosting a three-day blues festival starting on Friday, featuring a dozen bands and soloists from around the world.

Center to use remote sensing for heritage site protection

2011-07-29 08:01:34

The newly launched Space Technologies for Natural and Cultural Heritage (HIST) center will apply space and remote sensing technologies.

Archaeopteryx knocked off its perch

2011-07-29 08:01:34

New findings by Professor Xu Xing, with the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, suggest it was just another dinosaur.

Real life dreams

2011-07-29 08:01:34

Everything about Cao Yulan's life changed the instant the electrical pole crashed down on her mother's head during a violent thunderstorm.

Thriller with a cause

2011-07-29 08:01:34

Daphna Ziman is on a mission to help foster children, and she's picked a novel way to do it - novel, being the key word.

IN BRIEF

2011-07-29 08:01:34

Like her two previous mysteries, In the Woods (2007) and The Likeness (2008), French's latest is set in Dublin and steeped in local history.

Show homes

2011-07-28 08:02:21

Old houses in the Yangtze River Delta's countryside are being dismantled and reassembled for display in the gardens of the nation's new rich.

Journalistic ethics, an oxymoron?

2011-07-22 08:02:20

The Chinese press is devoting pages and pages to the phone hacking scandal that is unfolding half a world away.