China is building the world’s largest network of man-made rivers in a bid to tackle one of its biggest environmental challenges - water scarcity. The £49 billion project, officially known as ...

Central China's Hubei province, the cradle of the ancient Chu culture, is a place with profound cultural heritage and rich tourism resources.

An enigmatic skull recovered from the bottom of a well in northeastern China in 2018 sparked intrigue when it didn’t match ...

In an early case of industrial espionage, Robert Fortune disguised himself as a local and took tea leaves and the secrets of tea making back to the British.

One team at the Club World Cup is represented by 17 different nationalities. Another only has 19% local players.

Ice jams will become more frequent in the Yellow River’s estuary by the end of this century, hitting Chinese coastal cities such as those in eastern Shandong province, according to a new study.

Rescue workers are using rubber dinghies to evacuate people and deliver food and water after floodwaters overwhelmed towns in southern China’s Guangdong province.

A 35-year-old man in China who believes work and marriage are redundant notions has been living in a cave for four years. Min Hengcai from southwestern China’s Sichuan province calls home the ...

On Chinese social media, users describe it as China's strangest nail house, likening it to the madcap buildings in Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli masterpieces "Howl's Moving Castle" and "Spirited Away".

KITTERY, Maine — A man considering jumping off the Piscataqua River Bridge June 6 was safely talked down by a Kittery police officer, moments after the same man was involved in a car crash on ...

Kayakers found a body May 24 in a remote stretch of the Columbia River. Fingerprint analysis confirmed the man's identity after an autopsy. Autopsy showed no obvious signs of homicide; cause of ...

A project to allow eels and other fish to safely bypass a man-made weir has been completed. The concrete weir, created by Essex and Suffolk Water in the River Blackwater, near Maldon, Essex, was ...