USA: A hen owned by a Massachusetts woman who specialises in chicken rehabilitation and rescue is getting fitted with a prosthetic leg at Tufts University’s Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine.

Chinese police are investigating if two distillers in the south-western region of Guangxi added impotence treatment drug Viagra to their liquor in the latest food-safety scare in China.

A man has been carrying his house on his back for five years.

Heavy rains in southern China triggered floods that killed six people and forced the evacuation of 150,000 residents, state media reported today.