A Chinese official said a flight crew prevented a planned terrorist act aboard a Chinese jetliner last week.

A zookeeper needed more than 100 stitches after a panda viciously bit and scratched him during feeding time at a zoo in China, a newspaper reported today.

A HALF-mile section of China’s Yellow River turned “red and smelly” after an unknown discharge was poured into it from a sewage pipe.

The Chinese government dispatched cold-weather tents, earthquake teams and cash today to a remote area of the country’s north-west where powerful twin tremors, minutes apart, killed nine people and razed houses.

China launched its first manned space mission today, sending an astronaut hurtling into orbit and becoming the third country in Earth’s history to do so - four decades after the Soviet Union and the US.

Authorities in China’s capital have raided street stalls and wholesale markets and seized badges bearing the image of suspected terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden, an official newspaper said today.