A British woman is allergic to almost everything. She even gets a reaction from touching money and rainfall on her head.

Summer vacation for Chinese children is not a time to laze around any more, for many kids, obese and flabby,  are now turning up at "fat camps" in an effort to change their futures.

Ignited by their maiden success in placing a tiny satellite in the polar orbit early this week, its young pioneers are raring to launch two more satellites into space.

Over half of women graduate students in China show a free and open attitude to sex and marriage and understand why other girls are forced to stay as lovers with rich men or why some are forced to work at night clubs.

While education activists worldwide seek to bridge the "digital divide" by ensuring universal access to home computers, students are found to post lower scores once these technologies arrive aat home, says a study.

Come Saturday and it will be yet another World Day Against Child Labour, a day that holds little meaning for thousands of children who toil away in eateries, homes and on the roads in the national capital and elsewhere.

A man who stabbed 29 children and three teachers last month in east China's Jiangsu province was executed Sunday morning.