Hot yoga devotee Karla Walsh feels exhilarated after an hour of twisting her soggy limbs into pretzel shapes, but the Iowa-based writer wonders if all that swelter really ramps up her workout.
Tickets for NBA Global Games 2013 in Beijing and Shanghai featuring the Los Angeles Lakers and the Golden State Warriors will go on sale Aug 8 at 3:00 pm.
US President Barack Obama confirmed that he would go to Russia this fall for a G20 summit but expressed disappointment that Russia had granted temporary asylum to Edward Snowden.
Wushu, a traditional Chinese martial art, has made a major development in global self-promotion with the development of a standardized evaluation system over the past two years.
The show, which features 63 horses and 47 human artists, acrobats, riders and performers, opens its Boston-area performances August 7.
Fan Bingbing has such exquisite looks that she may have had a career no matter what. But she wants it all. She has proven that she can play parts that either play on her beauty or work in spite of it.
The European Commission on Tuesday denied a media report that the European Union might delay launching investigations into Chinese telecoms companies' practices.
China is training more Mandarin teachers and building more language schools in Pakistan to meet the growing demand for Mandarin speakers.
Thousands of people celebrated the unrolling of the thangka — a giant religious silk embroidery — to kick off the start of the Lhasa Yogurt Festival on Tuesday.
About 100,000 people in China suffer from osteogenesis imperfecta, a genetic and inherited disorder characterized by brittle bones.
A thermometer hits 41 C at 10 am at the Bund, a touristic waterfront area in central Shanghai, on Aug 6. The city has issued a red alert because of the heat wave, which has swept the city and shows no sign of waning.
Maria Sharapova and Serena Williams lead a pack of tennis players at the top of a list of the world's highest-paid female athletes in 2013 released by Forbes on Monday.