Chinese customs have seized around €432m worth of smuggled meat, some more than 40 years old and rotting, the official China Daily said, the latest in a grim series of food safety scares.

CHINESE surgeons yesterday said they successfully operated on a man with a 33lb tumour that hung down from his face, obscuring his features and warping his backbone.

Chinese surgeons today said they successfully operated on a man with a 33lb tumour that hung down from his face, obscuring his features and warping his backbone.

A doctor from eastern China donated his bone marrow today in the hope of helping an eight-year-old American girl with a potentially deadly blood disease.

AT least 58 people, most Russian holidaymakers, have died in floods in Russia's Black Sea region, the Emergencies Ministry said yesterday, as fierce weather continued to hit widespread areas of Europe and Asia.