There are dog people, there are people who read dog books and there are people who write dog books. (Many of them.)
A nation renowned for the art of queuing may be losing its patience, a survey has shown, with the average British adult able to stand in line for only 10 minutes and 42 seconds before tempers start to fray.
I had never seen snow before I was 17, when I went to school for a year in the US Midwest.
It's a changed landscape along the banks of the Yangtze, raised 100 meters in some sections after the Three Gorges Dam started operating. Freddie Cheah looks at the new views.
To come up with a few good ideas, you need to generate a lot of bad ones. And to give your good ideas a chance of reaching their full potential, you need to do some serious pruning.
Workouts for problem zones have long been a fixture in the courses offered at fitness studios.
How often have you said that you were "feeling quite lightheaded" without giving it a further thought? Well, for some people the problem of dizzy spells or lightheadedness is caused by a psychological condition that over time can become unbearable.
Early in the morning, when silence and darkness still reign over the campus, a long line has already formed before the entrances of the library.
A school whose roof was once patched up with cardboard is now a three-story building outfitted with Internet-enabled computers, a canteen and dormitories.
Chinese collectors with deep pockets are increasingly looking at Impressionist and Modern Art.
The weather might be uncharacteristically warm for November but anyone who has lived in Beijing for more than a year knows it won't last for long.
When I was growing up in America, I had a reoccurring dream about being kidnapped by a heavily tattooed man with a mustache.