USA: A New York man who sought help from a fortuneteller to fix a romantic relationship says she scammed him out of more than $700,000 (€623,000).

Staff at a Chinese car dealership spent six hours counting bank notes after a customer paid for a new BMW with banknotes worth about 14 cent each.

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Chinese police rescued 92 abducted children and detained 301 suspects in the latest operation to crack down on the country’s chronic problem of child trafficking, the Ministry of Public Security said.

At least nine people have died when fireworks for Chinese New Year celebrations exploded on a lorry in central China, destroying part of an elevated motorway and sending vehicles plummeting 100ft to the ground.

Fireworks for Chinese New Year celebrations have exploded on a lorry in central China, destroying part of an elevated motorway and sending vehicles plummeting 100ft to the ground.

A fire at a private shelter for orphans and abandoned children in central China has killed at least seven youngsters and left an unknown number of others injured.

A Chinese man claims to have lived on water alone for the past 12 years.

The Chinese appetite for Irish meat continues to grow, with imports of fresh and frozen pork up 116% for the first half of this year versus 2011, according to the latest Bord Bia analysis.

A mother in central China has given birth to a 15.52lb baby, possibly the largest newborn on record since the country’s founding in 1949.

Rescuers pulled seven injured miners to the surface and were trying to reach 50 others trapped after a rock explosion in a coal mine in central China, state media reported.

Three major road accidents in China killed 56 people on the last day of a week-long holiday, including 35 people who died after a bus collided with a car, state media reported.

Chinese state media is reporting that 41 people have died in a bus fire.

A Chinese farmer has spent over $15,000 inventing a pair of electric shoes which enable the wearer to run more than 100 miles per day.

Dozens of anxious relatives and friends of 11 miners trapped underground by an explosion in central China gathered outside the site today as rescuers battled tons of coal dust in a bid to reach them.

A dawn explosion in a Chinese coal mine killed 20 and trapped 17 workers underground today in the country’s central region, a national work safety official said.

China’s Henan province has ordered its namesake airline to change its name after it suffered China’s worst civil aviation disaster in nearly six years, saying that the accident had tarnished the province’s reputation.

The death toll from a bridge collapse in central China has risen to 51 people as the country’s worst flooding in decades continues to wreak havoc today.

Rescuers found two bodies in a flooded coal shaft in northwestern China and 11 miners remained trapped today – a reminder of the dangers of an industry that claimed the lives of 36 others just days ago.

A COAL mine blast killed 35 miners in central Henan province in China yesterday and left 44 trapped.

A coal mine blast killed 35 miners in central Henan province today and left 44 trapped.

Chinese families whose children fell ill from poisoned milk have been pressured to drop compensation cases, victims’ advocates say.

A Chinese court condemned two men to death today and handed a life term to a former dairy boss in the first sentences for those involved in the country’s contaminated milk scandal.

An explosion in central China’s Henan province killed 13 people and injured five others.

BRIAN COWEN was under pressure last night to fight for the release from jail of the mother of a Cork student when he meets Chinese premier Wen Jiabao.

Snow and ice has caused chaos in China, disrupting the nation's busiest holiday travel season.

Rescuers have recovered the bodies of 12 workers who were trapped after a gas explosion tore through a coal mine in central China, state media said today.

At least 12 miners were missing today after an explosion in central China, as authorities continued their efforts to reach 181 workers who have been trapped in flooded coal shafts for two weeks, state media said.

Chinese workers today rescued the first of 69 coal miners who had been trapped in a flooded shaft for more than three days, state media said.

Rescuers poured milk down a coal mine’s ventilation pipes in a bid to save 69 workers trapped underground for more than 50 hours in central China, state media said today.

Rescuers were today struggling to reach 45 miners trapped in two mines in the latest accidents to hit the industry in China, state media said

A flood at a coal mine in central China trapped 42 miners, the government said today.

A gas leak at a coal mine in China’s central Henan province has killed 24 miners, the official Xinhua News Agency said today.

Rescuers in northeast China were working today to free 69 coal miners trapped in a flooded mine, the government said.

AT least 166 workers were trapped yesterday after an explosion tore through a central Chinese coal mine, sending smoke billowing from air vents, the government said. Another 127 miners escaped.

A man suspected of killing 25 teenage boys after luring them from Internet cafes and video game parlours was detained in central China, after his latest target managed to escape, a newspaper reported today.

Tons of deadly cyanide leaked into a river in central China after a lorry carrying it overturned.

Authorities in central China have sentenced 23 people to prison terms of up to 13 years for a Christmas fire in a disco that killed 309 people, a court official said today.