Furniture shopping: Everyone’s done it… a sturdy new coffee table, a firm yet all encompassing easy chair for the TV room – or a full-size, extra cozy couch the whole family can...

A whale intended for research exploded on a Taiwanese street, soaking passersby in blood and guts. The sperm whale, which had died on the beach and was being transported through Tainan for...

As impressive as it is, the Great Wall of China never actually accomplished its goal of repelling invaders. The so-called Great Firewall of China is another story altogether. The government’s...

Wang Guiying is a 107-year-old Chinese woman who takes things very slowly… even love. Wang Guiying was born in southern Guizhou province, the child of a salt merchant. She grew up watching...

Was there communication between the ancient Chinese and the early Celts? The discovery of European corpses dating back to the Bronze Age in western China suggests that there might have...

If recent trends are anything to go by, Japanese men in their twenties are turning away from macho ideals like muscled bodies and business suits in favor of a more effeminate lifestyle. Dubbed as grass-eaters or Herbivore men, these young folk prefer...

A Vietnamese man dug up his wife’s body, molded it with clay into a female figure and put it in his bed so he could hug it every night for the past five years. The man, 55-year-old Le Van from Ha Lam in the central Quang Nam province, is seen...

For some people, the dream to marry a loved one regardless of age, ethnicity, sexuality, religion, species, or even reality will just never come to pass. For a man in Japan known as Sal9000, however, the dream of marrying his fictional beau has just...

Peeing on the toilet seat might be a bone of contention for couples all over the world until an enterprising company in Japan decided to lesson the frustration. In 2007, Kaiteki Raifu Kenkyusho unveiled a kneeling bench that enables closer peeing range...

Does love have you so down that you are unable to concentrate at work? Fear not, my heartbroken brethren. A company based out of Shanghai now provides a love-based welfare program that allows employees temporary paid leave if they fall prey to the...