LOS ANGELES (AP) — A SpaceX capsule is back on Earth with a full load of space station science samples. The Dragon cargo ship parachuted into the Pacific on Sunday off the Southern California coast. Astronauts set it free from the International Space Station 5½ hours earlier. The Dragon flew to the space station a […]

ST. STEPHEN, S.C. (AP) — For eighth-grader Lakaysha Governor, her daily two-hour school bus commute had been spent catching up with friends and trying to tune out distractions from unruly preschoolers. Now, thanks to Google, the aspiring forensic anthropologist said she’s able to spend that time finishing up her daily school work so she’s free […]

NEW YORK (AP) — David Rockefeller was the last of his generation in a famous American family. Rockefeller died Monday in his sleep at his home in Pocantico Hills at age 101, according to his spokesman, Fraser P. Seitel.   He was the grandson of Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller and the youngest of […]

YPSILANTI, Mich. (AP) — President Donald Trump says his administration will restart a review of federal requirements governing the fuel efficiency of new cars and trucks. The announcement was supposed to come in a speech Trump is giving in Michigan. But he revealed the plan a bit early during a meeting before the speech with […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone says he believes his contacts with a Russian-linked hacker who took credit for breaching the Democratic National Committee may have been obtained through a special warrant that allows the government to collect the communications of people suspected of being agents of a foreign nation. Stone is among […]

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Texas executed on Tuesday a man convicted of the 1987 killings of a father and his infant son and who three years later at his capital murder trial grabbed a loaded gun from a drawer in the courtroom and tried to attack the judge. James Bigby, 61, became the fourth inmate […]

By JILL LAWLESS, Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s House of Commons on Monday rejected an attempt to make the government promise, before the start of European Union exit talks, that it will guarantee the right of EU citizens living in the U.K. to remain. By a vote of 335 to 287, lawmakers overturned an amendment […]

By PAN PYLAS, Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Investors around the world are bracing for a series of events this week that could potentially cause waves in markets. And, for once, they’re not directly about U.S. President Donald Trump. From the expected launch of Britain’s exit from the European Union to the Federal Reserve’s discussion of […]

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Tensions between Turkey and Western Europe simmered Monday, with Turkey’s foreign ministry formally protesting the treatment of a Turkish minister who was escorted out of the Netherlands over the weekend and what Turkey called a “disproportionate” use of force against demonstrators at a protest afterward. German Chancellor Angela Merkel weighed in […]

According to a data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, illegal crossings on the western section of the U.S.-Mexico border are down 40%, compared to January numbers. Homeland security secretary John Kelly cites “implementation of Executive Orders to enforce immigration laws,” as the reason fewer Mexicans are attempting to cross into the US illegally. Increased difficulty in […]

President Trump has endorsed House Republicans’ bill to repeal Obamacare, called the American Health Care Act (AHCA). Yet the bill has faced opposition by some conservative lawmakers, who feel it doesn’t go far enough. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, stated, ”Our goal is real simple: to bring down the cost of insurance for working families and middle-class […]

PARIS (AP) — A zoo director says a 5-year-old rhinoceros at the wildlife park he runs near Paris has been shot three times in the head by assailants who stole the animal’s horn. Thierry Duguet told The Associated Press that poachers broke into the Thoiry Zoo overnight and used a chain saw to remove the […]

The White House asked the U.S. Congress on Sunday (March 5) to examine whether the Obama administration abused its investigative authority during the 2016 campaign, as part of an ongoing congressional probe into Russia’s influence on the election. The request came a day after President Donald Trump alleged, that then-President Obama ordered a wiretap of […]

A revised executive order temporarily barring the entry of people from six countries and halting the nation’s refugee program is expected to be signed by President Donald Trump Monday. According to a fact sheet distributed to lawmakers and obtained by the AP, the new directive aims to address legal issues that arose from the original […]

German police on Tuesday (February 28) searched more than 20 properties in Berlin with links to a mosque visited by the Tunisian asylum seeker who killed 12 people at a Christmas market. About 450 officers have been searching apartments, two companies’ premises and six prison cells connected to an organisation called “Fussilet 33 e.V.”, which […]

Speaking to a meeting of the National Governors Association, President Donald Trump said his first budget will focus on “public safety” and “national security.” The White House says President Donald Trump’s upcoming budget will propose a whopping $54 billion increase in defense spending and impose corresponding cuts to domestic programs and foreign aid. White House […]

President Donald Trump toasted the nation’s governors at the White House, joking with them, “It’s such an easy job.” Trump welcomed 46 governors and their spouses for the annual black-tie ball at the White House. It was the first major social event under the Trump administration. The president will be meeting with the governors on […]

A Ukrainian lawmaker who proposed an alternative plan for peace with Russian-backed separatists to U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration told Reuters on Tuesday (February 21) he plans to travel to Washington to present the proposal publicly. On Monday (February 20), the New York Times reported that Andriy Artemenko had sent a proposal to associates of […]

An Austrian court has ordered the extradition of Ukrainian businessman Dmytro Firtash to the US. He was taken into custody on a European arrest warrant hours later. He is wanted by the US on bribery charges. After being arrested there in 2014, he was released after paying €125 million for bail. He then remained stuck […]

Authorities are trying to find eight of 11 people who passed through an unattended security checkpoint lane at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport. Port Authority of New York and New Jersey spokesman Joe Pentangelo says it happened Monday morning at Terminal 5. He says authorities identified three of the travelers, who got onto […]

The British parliament’s upper house, the House of Lords, on Monday (February 20) began debating legislation which would give Prime Minister Theresa May the power to trigger Britain’s exit from the European Union. Earlier this month the lower house, the House of Commons, passed the Article 50 legislation without amending it. “It comes to us […]

Surveillance video footage obtained by Fuji TV, often grainy and blurred, seems to show the moment Kim Jong Nam, the estranged half brother of North Korean ruler Kim Jong Un, was attacked at Kuala Lumpur international airport. Two women approach Kim from different directions; one comes up behind him and appears to hold something over […]

The US House of Representatives has voted to overturn an 11th-hour Obama regulation that banned states from withholding federal funds from organizations that provide abortions. Obama pushed through his regulation just before leaving office, providing an additional obstacle for Republican lawmakers and President Donald Trump who take a pro-life stance, and want to de-fund Planned […]

Turkish and US chiefs of staff have “confirmed” the need to fight terror groups in Syria and Iraq, including the Islamic State group (ISIS) fighters, the Turkish military said in a statement. General Joe Dunford, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, met his Turkish counterpart General Hulusi Akar on Friday at Incirlik air base, which is […]

U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Thursday (February 16) chaired his first anti-ISIS coalition meeting in Brussels after a two-day meeting of NATO defence ministers. With all 28 NATO allies taking part in the 66-nation anti-Islamic State coalition, the military alliance hosted the meeting, although it’s not formally part of the group. NATO Secretary-General Jens […]

President Donald Trump slammed intelligence officials and the media Wednesday over what he called “very, very unfair” treatment of his ousted national security adviser Michael Flynn and for “illegally leaked” information about reported contacts between his campaign advisers and Russian officials. Flynn was forced to resign this week after misleading Vice President Mike Pence and […]

Early morning in central London. As queues of traffic slowly snake their way through the busy British capital, Romain Lacombe is getting to work. The founder and CEO of Paris-based startup, Plume Labs is using Flow, a wearable air quality tracker that monitors outdoor and indoor pollution. The small metallic device tracks everything from particulate […]

After a court refused to reinstate President Trump’s travel ban, the president is not backing down. Trump made comments to reporters at a joint press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. “Well, your question was unrelated to what we’re here for today, but I’ll answer it. We are going to keep our country safe. […]

Austria’s Max Stöckl broke the world record speed for standard mountain bikes on gravel in the Atacama Desert in December. In ideal conditions the 42-year-old reached a top speed of over 167 km per hour (104 miles per hour) on his run down a mountain in the Chilean desert. After years of preparation Stöckl’s V-Max […]

Former Dutch peacekeepers and bereaved Bosnian Muslims confronted painful memories on Thursday (February 9) at the opening of a new permanent exhibition in Srebrenica, where Serb forces massacred more than 8,000 people in 1995. The Dutch soldiers were meant to protect the local population, but they were lightly armed and had no orders to confront […]

Participants at a conference on organ trafficking at the Vatican have confronted China over its organ transplant practices. China’s former vice-minister of health Dr. Huang Jiefu made a presentation at the conference, but ended up in a heated exchange with doctors over China’s program to harvest organs from executed prisoners. Huang Jiefu promised to end […]

Inside Tokyo’s Suntory Hall, home to the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra. The building has been praised for its finely tuned acoustics that won accolades from the late conductor Herbert von Karajan, who attended the acoustics tests when it opened in 1986. It was this hall that launched the international career of acoustic specialist Yasuhisa Toyota. He’s behind […]

A group of volunteers arrived to once-thriving Christian town of Qaraqosh near Mosul on Tuesday (February 7), three months after militants were driven out of town, to erase the signs Islamic State left behind.   Many residents of Qaraqosh, once home to some 50,000 people, say they still do not feel safe to return. But […]

President Enrique Pena Nieto on Tuesday (February 07) welcomed a group of Mexicans who had been deported from the U.S. back home amidst tough talk from President Donald Trump on a border wall. Pena Nieto met the group of 135 citizens at Mexico City’s International airport where he pledged his solidarity and government support in […]

Qatar Airways flight 921, which is set to be the longest scheduled commercial flight by flying time according to the airline’s website, took off on Tuesday (February 7) from Auckland on its way to Doha. The flight was expected to take 17 hours and 30 minutes, according to flight tracking website flightradar24, and is expected […]

Afghan officials were working on Monday (February 6) to reach remote villages after avalanches and heavy snow killed at least 119 people around the country. At least 119 people died, 89 were injured in avalanches and by collapsed roofs and traffic accidents, in 22 of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces over the past three days, said Wais […]

The annual Sapporo snow festival kicked off on Monday (February 6) featuring ice sculptures of iconic locations, movie characters, celebrities, and even the U.S. president, Donald Trump. One of the largest exhibits of the festival was Paris’ famous monument, the Arc de Triomphe, measuring 17.5 metres in height and 24 metres in width – one-third […]

Speaking to a group of senators at the White House, President Donald Trump called NAFTA “a catastrophe for our country,” and said he would like to speed negotiations, if possible. Flanked by Wilbur Ross, the new Commerce secretary, Trump said he hadn’t decided if NAFTA needed modifications, or whether a whole new trade deal needed […]

The US Senate has confirmed former ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson for Secretary of State The Senate voted 56-43 in Tillerson’s favor, with all Republicans, three Democrats, and one independent voting for his appointment. Tillerson managed 75,000 employees across 6 continents at his previous job. He has been viewed as an unconventional choice for the job, but […]

A swim in the surf on a hot summer’s day is a treat for anyone. But for Hudson, a dip in the ocean is a rare event. The four year-old was born with cerebral palsy but is getting to enjoy catching a wave thanks to volunteers from the Gold Coast Disabled Surfers Association. “It’s probably […]

The Brexit law cleared its first legislative hurdle, Wednesday’s vote paving the way for UK Prime Minister Theresa May to launch formal divorce proceedings from the European Union by the end of March, as she’d promised. Britain’s Supreme Court ruled last week that May could not invoke Article 50, which launches the process, without parliament’s […]

The United States called a meeting of the UN Security Council Tuesday in response to Iran’s test of a ballistic missile over the weekend. US Ambassador Nikki Haley called the launch “absolutely unacceptable.” Haley said Tuesday that Iran is “being naive” by thinking the U.S. and others accept its contention that it has no intention […]

Stuck in bumper to bumper traffic. But imagine being able to get through the gridlock.. By flying over it. Yifang “Derrick” Xiong, co-founder, ehang inc.: “it’s going to be a flying car.” Once the stuff of science fiction .. The technology has recently taken off. It’s a long ago dream of automakers. G-m envisioned a sleek-rocket like flying […]

President Donald Trump is planning to sign an executive order aimed at improving the government’s ability to protect its computer networks and fend off hackers. The move puts the head of the Office of Management and Budget in charge of cybersecurity efforts within the executive branch and directs federal agency directors to develop their own […]

President Donald Trump says he wants to lower drug prices and bring pharmaceutical companies back to the United States. Trump is meeting with drug company executives at the White House Tuesday. He says “we’re going to be changing a lot of the rules” and promises to end “global freeloading.” He is also vowing to reduce […]

President Donald Trump’s Secretary of Homeland Security, John Kelly, defended the travel ban from seven countries deemed sources of terrorism. “The president, as we all know has issued three executive orders related to our homeland security mission. These orders will secure our borders, enhance the enforcement of our immigration laws and keep our citizens safe […]

A recently-opened restaurant in Brussels offers a new experience to adventurous foodies, five metres below the surface of a swimming pool. The restaurant, called ‘The Pearl’, is installed at the bottom of one of the world’s deepest indoor swimming and diving pools and opened at the end of 2016. For 99 euros per person, customers […]

Yuri Alekseyev wakes up in the morning and walks to a nearby forest to collect wood to warm up his home. His faithful white rabbit Petrushka follows him. The round entrance to his underground hut has earned him the nickname “Hobbit” in the local media after Tolkien’s famous novel. However, Alekseyev explains that the door […]

The newly-crowned Miss Universe Iris Mittenaere celebrated her victory on Monday (January 30) after winning the Miss Universe pageant in Manila. The 24-year-old from Paris won the crown in a three-hour show in the Philippine capital that focused on diversity and overcoming life struggles, besting 85 hopefuls from all over the world. Mittenaere, who is pursuing a degree in […]

Six people were killed and eight wounded when gunmen opened fire at a Quebec mosque during Sunday (January 29) night prayers, in what Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called a “terrorist attack on Muslims”. Police said two suspects had been arrested, but gave no more details into what prompted the “terrorist attack”, saying the investigation […]

Residents of eastern Mosul have started to clean up their city after two and a half years of rule by Islamic State militants and the battle that dislodged them. Students are painting over the extremists’ murals and men are filling in bomb craters and clearing away the rubble of the nearly three-month-long battle that left […]

U.S. President Donald Trump plans signed an executive order on Monday (January 30) that will require that for every new federal regulation proposed, two must be revoked. The order says federal agencies will propose rules they want to eliminate and the White House will review those decisions. The order sets a budget of $0 for […]

Rescue teams are busy fanning out throughout Chile’s central and southern regions to combat fires that have overrun at least 1,000,000 acres and killed at least 11. And the South American country has also begun identifying and bringing in suspects, pointing its finger at 43 people for playing a role in the spreading of the flames. […]

Italian police broke up a people smuggling ring on Sunday (January 29) in which migrants were packed into vans and shuttled to France from Italy for up to 1,000 euros ($1,063) each. After a two-year investigation that documented 62 separate incidents of smuggling, police issued more than 30 arrest warrants for people trafficking, though about […]

Beijing residents awoke to some of the highest smog levels seen in recent years on Saturday (January 28), day one of the Lunar New Year. The Beijing Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau said harmful particulate matter in the air had hit the second-highest level in five years by Saturday morning, the state-owned  China News Service reported. Beijing […]

Emergency responders rescued two window washers Wednesday after one side of their scaffold gave way about 12 stories up along a Dallas skyscraper. Both men were saved from outside the Prosperity Bank building in North Dallas. The scaffold was still dangling from the 15-story building as the hour-long rescue ended during cloudy conditions with wind […]

A 371-foot former cargo vessel named for a mythical sea monster has become an artificial reef in the Gulf of Mexico off Texas. The Texas Parks & Wildlife Department says the Kraken (KRAK’-uhn) was sunk 67 miles off Galveston. The ship is expected to become a home to fish, coral and other sea-life, plus a […]

Dramatic television images showed the moment a colonial-era hotel, collapsed into the swollen waters of Sicra River in the Peruvian town of Lircay, in the district of Angaraes on Thursday (January 26). Civil Defense authorities said it started raining on Wednesday (January 25) afternoon and did not stop for 10 straight hours. The foundations of […]

Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto has canceled his meeting with US President Donald Trump. The Mexican President was supposed to meet with President Trump in Washington on Jan. 31, but pressure from Mexican lawmakers over Trump’s plans to push ahead with a border wall and make Mexico pay for it has been mounting On Jan.26 President Trump […]

A draft executive order obtained by The Associated Press shows that President Donald Trump intends to stop accepting Syrian refugees and suspend the United States’ broader refugee program for 120 days. The president also plans to suspend issuing visas for people from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria or Yemen for at least 30 days, […]

Some 1,500 houses burnt down in the Chilean town of Santa Olga overnight on Wednesday (January 25), the government said on Thursday, as the worst wildfires in the country’s modern history ravage wide swaths of the central-south regions. The mayor of the city of Constitucion, Carlos Valenzuela, said the fire service had abandoned Santa Olga […]

President Donald Trump is signing two executive orders in keeping with campaign promises to build a wall along the Mexican border and crack down on immigrants living in the U.S. illegally. The president signed the two orders Wednesday, Jan. 25, during a ceremony at the Department of Homeland Security after honoring the department’s newly confirmed […]

Rescue crews in Southwest Miami-Dade, Florida, were called out to make a tricky rescue Tuesday morning, Jan. 24. A horse slipped into a deep narrow ditch, off a road. The ditch was so deep that the rescue teams could barely see the horse’s head from above. In order to calm the animal down before the […]

Utah authorities are investigating why railroad crossing arms weren’t down and lights and bells were off when a double-decker passenger train violently smashed into the back of a semitrailer. Dash cam video released Tuesday by North Salt Lake Police shows the train ripping through the FedEx trailer Saturday morning, narrowly missing the cab where two […]

Pakistan successfully tested a new nuclear capable surface-to-surface missile on Tuesday (January 24). The missile is able to deliver multiple warheads and evade radar detection, the army’s media wing said. It was Pakistan‘s second missile test in a month. The Ababeel missile can reach targets at a range of 1367 miles (2,200 km), over three […]

UK Prime Minister Theresa May will now have to ask the UK parliament whether she can start the process of leaving the EU. Judges from the United Kingdom’s Supreme Court voted 8 – 3 in favor of forcing UK Prime Minister Theresa May to hold a vote in parliament over triggering article 50 of the […]

One Monday, Jan. 23, newly-inaugurated US President Donald Trump reinstated the ban on federal money for international NGOs that promote or perform abortions. The act came as part of several other executive orders Trump signed the same day. The ban is known as the “Mexico City Policy,” and was first introduced by Reagan. The Mexico […]

On his first full day in office, US President Donald Trump signed three executive orders, the first of which pulls the United States out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The TPP is a free trade deal that spans 12 countries across the Pacific, with a total population of 800 million people and 40% of the […]

If convicted, Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán will face life in prison in the United States. El Chapo (Spanish for “Shorty”) is accused of running the world’s largest drug trafficking operation, from 1989 until 2014. The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York described the leader of the Sinaloa cartel as […]

Donald J Trump has been sworn in as the 45th president of the United States. He took the oath at 12 noon on January 20th on the west face of the US Capitol in Washington, DC. Trump is the oldest president in US history at 70-years old, and also the richest, with wealth estimated at […]

German police are offering a 100,000 Euro reward for information leading the the arrest of Anis Amri, the suspect in the December 19th terror attack in Berlin which killed 12 people. Police have described Amri as armed and dangerous. A European arrest warrant describes six different aliases used by Amri. Amri is believed to be […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin has responded to the killing of Russia’s ambassador to Turkey. Putin appeared on Russian TV saying it was “a provocation designed to spoil normalization of Russia-Turkey relations” The Russian ambassador to Turkey was shot in the back as he gave a speech at an art gallery in Ankara, Turkey. The assassin […]

December 20th – German Chancellor Angela Merkel, together with the interior minister, foreign minister and the mayor of Berlin, visit the site of the deadly terrorist attack in the German capital.   The previous day, a truck ploughed into the crowded Christmas market at Breitscheidplatz, in an attack similar to what was seen in Nice, […]

Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange confirmed Wednesday, Dec. 16th, that the source that handed over Clinton campaign chair Jon Podesta’s emails was not the Russian government. Assange made the remarks in an interview with Fox News host and radio host Sean Hannity. The CIA had concluded earlier that Russia hacked both the Republican and Democratic Party […]

Leading figures from Silicon Valley will meet with President-elect Donald Trump today in New York. The list of attendees reads like a who’s-who of the US tech industry. Apple CEO Tim Cook, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Larry Page and Eric Schmidt from Google’s parent company, Amazon boss Jeff Bezos, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and Tesla’s […]

Donald Trump loves saying the word China! And now it seems one China isn’t enough for him. That was Donald Trump on Fox News Sunday addressing questions on why he accepted a congratulatory call from Taiwan’s president Tsai Ing-wen. You see since the 1970’s the US and many other Western countries have only diplomatically recognized […]

A lot of people will be familiar with the number 8 being a lucky number for Chinese. 8 is pronounced bā which sounds similar to the word fā as in fā cái or emit wealth. And people are really serious about using the number 8. For example, the Beijing Olympics started on august 8th 2008 at […]

These Japanese Snow Monkeys (officially the Japanese Macaque) are a big tourist attraction. You may have seen them yourself and be curious about these creatures who seem to have an almost human appetite for comfort. Here we have a cool collection of this adorable mammal having fun and relaxing in the hot springs in chilling snow in the […]

Sony and Marvel have released a new 15-second teaser for the new Spiderman movie, titled Spiderman: Homecoming. The first actual trailer for the movie will make its debut Thursday night on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, but for those who can’t wait, the teaser provides an exciting preview of what is to come… Scroll down for video. […]

In a video set to a solemn soundtrack, Time introduced its Person of the Year 2016, President-Elect Donald Trump, as “President of the Divided States of America.” Trump was an unavoidable choice for Time, whose Editor in Chief, Nancy Gibbs, described the pick as: “The individual who has had the most influence on events, for […]

If you have ever been to a Chinese restaurant, you will know they normally serve tea with the meal, and Chinese people have a special way of thanking the waiter for tea, placing two fingers on the table. Here is the story behind this tradition…. Emperor Qianlong from the Qing Dynasty (1644 – 1911) loved […]

A young man from the southern city of Shenzhen in China, has spent 1 million Chinese yuan on plastic surgery to make himself look like Chinese billionaire Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba group – kind of like the Chinese Amazon dot com. The strange thing about it is that Jack Ma is not exactly known […]

A Japanese ice rink has come under fire for its unorthodox display of dead fish under skater’s feet. The ice rink in question is at the Space World Park, in the southern city of Kitakyushu, where skaters can glide over 5000 frozen fish of all shapes and sizes, kind of like skating over an Asian […]

When you think of Kung Fu, you may think of Bruce Lee beating up an entire Japanese Karate school. But Kung Fu doesn’t always refer to fighting, actually the word Kung Fu just means “a skill acquired through effort.” It doesn’t just relate to martial arts, you can use Kung Fu to describe a high level […]

Everyone loves Chinese dumplings, but did you know there are several different ways to cook them? You can steam them or boil them for that classic soft feel or pan sauté them for a more crispy outer shell. See the video for an explanation of the different cooking methods, and here is the vocabulary in […]

Now in Chinese you can basically take any character you like, perhaps combine it with another character and make a name. But some Chinese people don’t realise that in English, there are names and then there are words, and those words can’t really become names just because you say so. This guy from Taiwan certainly […]

Meet Trump toilets, they’re the best toilets, they’re having a yuuuuge impact on the Chinese toilet industry. Except Mr. Trump has never described them like that, because the company is not actually connected with him in any way. The name was registered in Shenzhen, Southern China, in 2002, to an entirely Chinese company. Shenzhen Trump […]

The term “Chinglish” has come to be associated with the grammatically incorrect English spoken or written by many Chinese people. There was even a Broadway show by the same name focusing on the interaction between Chinese and English speakers. These mistakes sometimes produce hilarious results. Some of the funniest ones are signs that have been […]

A bird at Hangzhou Wild Animal World in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, Eastern China, has shot to fame on the Internet, for its likeness to the US President-elect Donald Trump. The bird is a Golden Pheasant, with a flowing mane of golden hair that resembles “The Donald’s.” Trump has also been compared to a variety of […]

The world’s saddest polar bear, who is imaginatively names “Pizza” will be moving from his mall in China thanks to an Animal Asia petition. The bear had been kept in a glass enclosure at the Grandview mall in Guangzhou, Southern China. A petition brought the bear into the spotlight back in March when it had […]