Looming over the Chaoyang district of Beijing, the rising headquarters of China Central Television, or CCTV, will soon angle and cantilever like a colossal Constructivist doughnut, threatening to writhe free of the scaffolding that barely harnesses it.

For many women they spend much of their life trying to figure out how to make an impression.  Here are some amazing photos of women making an impression.

Sleep soundly, Ermintrude. Doze dreamily, Daisy. The United Kingdom’s hard-working cows are being encouraged to take the weight off their cloven feet.

Obesity is not just a growing health problem among humans, it seems.  Half of dogs and cats in the UK are now overweight, according to the RSPCA.

A Scottish archaeology student has discovered a 5,000-year-old piece of chewing gum while on a dig in Europe.

Around the world, a handful of scientists are trying to create life from scratch and they’re getting closer.

The narrow pot-holed roads of this boomtown on India’s southwestern coast are a sea of humanity on wheels. Here, as in most of India, right of way is accorded by a vehicle’s size – motorcycles stop for cars, cars stop for trucks, trucks stop for buses, and buses stop for cows.  So, in a country [...]

Almost twice as many women as men wish they had married someone else, says a survey.  More than one in five married women (22 per cent) said that if they could go back in time they would change their husband.  Just 12 per cent of married men, however, admitted picking the wrong wife. Over 35s [...]

When 6-year-old Ethan Bondick told his mom and dad he wanted to go fly-fishing in Montana, his well-heeled parents were stumped.  "We looked at each other and said, ‘Oh, god, now what?’ " said Gigi Bondick, 37, a "reformed" attorney whose husband works as a private-equity partner in Massachusetts.

Adult satellite network Paradise TV is poised to hold its annual charity telethon, promising to get physical with its philanthropy, according to Shukan Taishu.