A former mining tycoon who led a mafia-style crime gang that ran casinos and killed rivals has been executed along with four of the gang’s members, a court in central China said.

A MUSICIAN who lost both arms in a childhood accident and plays the piano with his toes has won China’s Got Talent.

A musician who lost both arms in a childhood accident and plays the piano with his toes has won 'China’s Got Talent'.

A SCHOOL employee with a history of schizophrenia slashed 15 students and three teachers with a kitchen knife yesterday at a Beijing kindergarten, killing one child and leaving terrified classmates covered in blood.

Beijing’s new mayor has been fired after the Chinese capital announced a nearly tenfold increase in cases of the deadly Sars disease, boosting its total from 37 to 346.