Just as the Games had begun, fireworks and pageantry filled Beijing's National Stadium at the end of 16 days of competition. Only this time, the massive Olympic torch which had burnt constantly over the stadium throughout slowly faded out. The closin...
CNN has learned that Barack Obama tonight offered the No.2 spot on the democratic ticket to the man you've been talking about all night, 65-year-old Democratic Senator Joe Biden of Delaware. We have two democratic sources telling this, we can not des...
This morning on Today's China, hip-hop hits the mainland, dancing is all the rage these days back home, thanks to those popular TV shows. But NBC's Mark Melinda discovered it's big here in China, too, a large due to a rather unusual group of dancers....
The aftermath of a freak accident: This small sports plane got stuck in power lines in southern Germany. The 65-year-old pilot was about to land at a regional airport in the Allgu region when his plane touched the 380, 000 volt power lines. The plane...
This van came from like flying out of that street, ran her over. That's what happened. A group of Bronx New York bystanders banded together as heroes Thursday afternoon. Some say ten some say twenty people helped lift a five-ton school bus off a preg...
Manuel Uribe is going for his second world record, his first title --the world's heaviest living man. Well now he wants to lose the most weight in the least amount of time. At his heaviest, Manuel Uribe weighed 1,235 pounds and was in the Guinness Bo...
Welcome to JaJah Babel. To translate from English to Chinese, press 1; to translate from Chinese to English, press 2 And it's really that simple, using your cellphone and software fittingly called Babel from a Silicon Valley company called Jajah to t...
He is the oldest celebrity in the world, like super old, old enough to remember when dancing was a sin and beer was served in a bucket, but is he ready to lead? Hey, America, Im Paris Hilton, and I am a celebrity, too. Only I am not from the olden da...
To say that the Chinese artist Cai Guo Qiang has exploded on his contemporary art scene is no exaggeration. Best known for making art by exploding gun powder on the paper as well as using explosives in mass-scale public events, Cai was tapped to be t...
Here in the Back Alley food markets, one of the most interesting foods you can try, are live scorpions. They take live scorpions and fry them, and put them on a stick, put them in your mouth. Taste just like any other fried food youd ever have. Very...
Like so many of us, 56-year-old Allena Hansen, went out to walk her dogs, two of them, in fact, in the woods, on her property in southern California. She never expected to be attacked by a bear and not just any bear, a 150-pound black bear. She reall...
Reuters. Thousands gathered in Novosibirsk in Siberia to see a rare solar eclipse. With eye protection and some looking through specially shielded telescopes, they waited until the moment the sun began to disappear in the middle of the day. A total s...
A passport costs 72 pounds. Its value to criminals is much higher. Greater Manchester Police don't yet know if the robbers knew what they were after when they targeted the vehicle that had barely started its journey. The Citroen van carrying boxes of...
Many teachers and parents have said it, it is sort of a thought ingrained in the American psyche that boys are better than girls at mathematics. But is it true? The lack of women mathematicians, engineers and physicists has often been cited as proof...
After the adoring crowds in Berlin and the high-profile treatment from President Sarkozy in Paris, Senator Obama's British leg of his tour was comparatively low-key. It was a tale of three prime ministers, one past, one present and perhaps one to com...
