A survey in China focusing on online matchmaking for the first time shows that more than 70% of the respondents believe the Internet can provide more opportunities for them to make friends, and over 80% accept the phenomenon of finding marriage partners online, 30% of whom would like to have a try.

A new European Union proposal bans airlines from advertising airfares that hide fuel surcharges, baggage fees and other airline add-ons. Airlines are also prevented from charging passengers different rates in different countries.

An undated handout photo of Canadian company Solestrom’s new bikini that goes on sale in August 2006 with a UV meter built into its belt and an alarm that beeps to tell wearers when to head to the shade.

According to MyHeritage.com, everyone has a little celebrity inside. Largely meant for charting family trees and as a genealogy community, the Web site also boasts an addictive face recognition technology that blurs the boundary between the great unwashed and the thoroughly groomed.

China’s 150 million entrepreneurs and professionals contribute a third of total tax revenues, The Outlook Weekly reported yesterday.

Plans for a secretive commercial space venture backed by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos were coming under public review Tuesday at a government hearing.

There’s a heatwave out there. Fancy a steaming bowl of soup? Not really? So what happens to the stacks of unsold fresh soup stacked up in supermarkets up and down the land?

Paramilitary police have been sent to protect terrified villagers in southern Sierra Leone after wild bush cows attacked their homes and gored a farmer to death, police said on Tuesday.

The Shanghai Securities Journal reports that the housing system in China now faces a historical change. With property developers mainly controlling the housing market, housing system in China’s urban areas cannot develop in a sustainable way. In China, it shouldn’t be ignored that more and more people in cities cannot afford to buy a house […]

Last week, WPP Group became the second ad agency conglomerate to make an investment in the social networking arena in recent weeks. It is clear that agencies are keen to understand the impact of social networks on advertising as well as to turn a profit off of their investments.

The first plasma discharge from China’s experimental advanced superconducting research center — the so-called artificial sun — is set to occur next month.

Stem cells taken from human fat can be transformed into smooth muscle cells, offering a way to treat many kinds of heart disease, gastrointestinal and bladder ills, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.

Your parents were right, don’t study with the TV on. Multitasking may be a necessity in today’s fast-paced world, but new research shows distractions affect the way people learn, making the knowledge they gain harder to use later on.

MySpace, the world’s most popular networking website, has restarted after being shut down for more than half a day following a power outage.

While sex in space is now a front and center topic of talk in public space travel circles, it may be far more complex and foreboding than once thought.

More than four in 10 kids surveyed by KidsHealth said they feel stressed most of the time or always. The youngsters cited having too much to do as the main reason, according to KidsHealth, a division of the Nemours Foundation, a nonprofit organization that studies children’s health issues.

Newlyweds in the US are "meshing" their names in an attempt to banish the sexism that comes when a woman takes her husband’s surname.

A man’s brainpower, scientists say, can be damaged by sharing a bed. When they spend the night with a partner, their sleep patterns are disturbed, whether they make love or not.

If a nation’s readiness to plug into the global economy is gauged by how many of its college students are studying international business, China must be the world champion.

China’s first satellite specially designed for seed breeding in space will be launched into orbit in early September, it was announced over the weekend.

Implanting false memories of a bad experience with alcohol could prevent people abusing alcohol later, a Canadian researcher has said.

China:  Female online writer Chen Lan recently claimed "fighting against a sex offender, even risking one’s life, is a disgrace to the human race." Her comments have created a fierce debate throughout the online community.

Here are some amazing photos to play with your head.

Maybe it’s the robotic dog resting in the corner or the R2-D2 "Star Wars" droid on the floor, but Tandy Trower’s office is not a typical workstation found at Microsoft.

What are the best paying jobs in America and where are they paying the most?