So, three days to go til the end of the world, right? Well that's if you're counting down on your novelty Mayan advent calendar. (What's behind De...

Watching online porn can interfere with your short-term memory, researchers have found. The German study saw a test group of 28 heterosexual men, ...

A passenger has photographed what appears to be a UFO from the window of an aeroplane. The disc-shaped object is seen above the clouds and was pic...

Chinese sweethearts queued up to get married on Thursday - because the symbolism of symmetrical date 12/12/12 means sounds like "will love, will love,...

Lunch with the Dalai Lama was off the menu for ministers earlier this year after David Cameron slapped a last-minute ban on for MPs planning on meetin...

Oh, People's Daily! We've all done it. We've all done a double-take at a headline and then realised it's a spoof from fake news site 'The Onion'. T...

When a couple in China refused to accept compensation for having their home demolished to make way for a motorway the developers carried on anyway. ...

The deaths of five boys, who choked to death as they huddled together round a fire for warmth inside a dumpster they called home, has shocked the worl...

This week a highly influential tourism delegation from the UK has been visiting Shanghai and Tokyo, capitalising on the renewed interest in Britain post-London 2012 and the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.

British luxury car-maker Jaguar Land Rover will start manufacturing vehicles in China for the first time after agreeing a £1 billion joint-venture. ...