Prince Harry isn’t the only one with penis problems. An elderly man in China lost part of his privates after getting a metal ring stuck around the base of his member — a scenario so dire, doctors had to use a circular saw to remove the foreign object. The 72-year-old from Changsa in central China … Read more
This just might be a big hairy deal for carb lovers. Best-kept secret ingredients are blowing minds on social media: Your grocery-store breads could very well contain traces of human hair, duck feathers, cow horns and pig bristles. The gag-inducing food production practice was first revealed in a little-known study published in 2016. However, it’s … Read more
In early 2018, Dr. He Jiankui, a then-34-year-old Chinese biophysicist, traveled to an Arizona science conference to meet with one of his heroes, the Nobel Prize-winning geneticist James Watson, a man who first proposed the double helix structure of DNA molecules back in 1953. Dr. He was in the midst of a big experiment of … Read more
He puff puff passed the other marathoners in this smoking run. A Chinese grandpa redefined smoking the competition after running an entire marathon in just three and a half hours while puffing away on cigarettes. Images of the chain-smoking athlete are lighting up Weibo — the Chinese social media platform — as fans praise his … Read more
A Hong Kong teacher has been arrested after posting instructions online that would allow anyone to create a highly flammable and poisonous gas. Officers from the Cyber Security and Technology Crime Bureau in China noticed the article — the author of which was not named in the press — in an online forum last month, … Read more
A student who took to social media to share her outrage about a “racist” letter she received was quickly shut down after the truth was revealed. Former University of Queensland student Sierra Chen took to Facebook to express her disgust after a letter sent to her home was addressed to a person named “Ms. Ching … Read more
Men who drink tea may have better luck conceiving, a study suggests. Researchers in China studied the sperm quality of nearly 1,400 men. Their results revealed men partial to a cuppa had a higher sperm concentration and count. Sperm-boosting benefits were only seen in men who drank tea three days a week, so experts don’t know … Read more
A senior Chinese health official recently warned people on social media not to touch foreigners as the country reported its first case of monkeypox. In a Weibo post on Saturday, Wu Zunyou, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s chief epidemiologist, announced that China now has one case of monkeypox that “slipped through the … Read more
Two scientific committees under the Centre for Health Protection have said men who have sex with men should be among those prioritized for the monkeypox vaccine in Hong Kong. Monkeypox continues to spread around the world in recent months, with the virus declared a global health emergency by the World Health Organization. The … Read more
SAMARKAND, Uzbekistan (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin thanked Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Thursday for his “balanced” approach to the Ukrainian crisis and blasted Washington’s “ugly” policies at a meeting that followed a major setback for Moscow on the battlefield. Speaking at the start of talks with Xi in Uzbekistan, Putin said he was … Read more
VENICE, Italy (AP) – Chinese dissident and artist Ai Weiwei has warned against arrogance, calling it “a time of so much trouble” with “Memento Mori,” with his first glass sculpture ever created on the Venetian island of Murano: “Memento mori,” Latin for “remember you must die.” Russian bombs were dropped on Ukraine. China is increasing … Read more