A Chinese businessman suspected of involvement in the deaths of a family of four found murdered at their home in Britain was today at the centre of a nationwide manhunt.

The skeletons of two human foetuses have been found wrapped in 1930s newspaper in a trunk in the basement of a Los Angeles building.

A NEW species of feathered dinosaurs provides hard evidence that the prehistoric creatures evolved into birds, a group of Chinese scientists claimed yesterday.

China has defended its new adoption regulations for foreigners that favour middle-aged married couples without physical handicaps, saying that they were designed to help children and expedite adoptions, state media said today.