Cooks in China have made the world's longest noodle.

An explosion caused by stored chemicals has killed six people and injured 37 at an internet cafe in southwest China.

A bus in southwest China fell off a cliff after losing control, leaving 13 dead and nine injured.

Police arrested nine people in southwest China suspected of trafficking mentally ill people to be murdered in mines across the country in a bid to blackmail mine owners into paying compensation, a local official said.

Sixty pandas relocated last year from a famous Chinese nature reserve after their breeding centre was severely damaged by a massive earthquake will return home after repairs in 2012.

An official newspaper said 200 children have been sickened with lead poisoning in southwest China, the third report of such cases in the country this month.

China’s environment ministry has suspended construction of two ambitious hydropower dams in the upper Yangtze River region, saying the projects were illegal because they were started without necessary environmental assessments.

TWO people were killed yesterday in explosions aboard two public buses in a major Chinese city, police said, heightening security concerns only weeks before the Olympics.

Explosions on two public buses killed two people and wounded 14 others today in southwest China.

A long drought in southwest China has left nearly four million people and 4.5 million livestock short of drinking water, state media reported today.

TENS of thousands of earthquake victims in southwest China were living in tents or in the open yesterday, fearful of returning to their damaged homes a day after a magnitude 6.4 quake killed three and injured at least 300.

RESCUERS battled to reach thousands of people trapped by floods and mudslides in southwest China as the death toll from some of the worst storms in years rose to 107 with another 88 missing.

A strong earthquake rumbled through southwest China today, killing three people and injuring at least 200.

A gas well accident in which 233 people died was due to negligence and those responsible “will be dealt with”, a Chinese safety official said today.

POPE John Paul yesterday condemned the prospect of human cloning as scientists threw doubt on claims by Dr Severino Antinori that a cloned human child will be born in January.

Chinese archaeologists have found almost 100 tombs from between the 14th and 17th centuries.

Detonators and fireworks hidden under a load of coal blew up during an inspection of the truck that was carrying them in southern China, killing nine people and injuring 14 others, the official Xinhua News Agency said on Wednesday.

Eight people have been killed and four are missing after severe rainstorms lashed southwest China.