Since 1983 the annual Spring Festival Gala hosted by China Central Television has always been an important part of the Chinese Lunar New Year celebration - no wonder every move organizers make becomes the center of attention. On Thursday it published...
Vikash Kumar, Thinker, new to the corporate, B.Tech IIT Delhi Do something which buys you happiness. 花在能让自己感到快乐的事情上。 While studying in Delhi only for 4 years, I had visited Connaught Palace quite a few times. I used to s...
Captain's call - a phrase plucked from the cricket pitch and politicised by former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott - has become the Macquarie Dictionary's Word of the Year for 2015. 拍脑袋决定（原意：队长的决定）一词源于板球运...
The final series of ITV's Downton Abbey has won best drama for the fourth time in five years at the 2016 National Television Awards. 英剧《唐顿庄园》最后一季获得2016年英国国家电视奖最佳剧情奖，这是该剧五年内第四次获...
As the new year starts you might have recently bought a new diary or calendar and thought Where do these words come from? at least thats what I did. There is also, of course, also the chance that you have been merrily scheduling in gym appointments a...
Happiness is in your genes it seems, according to research that shows the more people in a country who have a particularly gene, the happier the nation will be. 一项研究发现可能存在幸福基因，国家的居民拥有的这种特殊基因越多...
Detainees held at Scotland's sole immigration removal centre (IRC) were asked for their wifes national insurance number as well as bra size amid suspicions of sham marriages, according to evidence heard by an independent review commissioned by the UK...
A 16m-high glass church in the shape of a high-heeled shoe has been built in Taiwan, apparently in a bid to attract more women. 台湾建了一座高16米的水晶高跟鞋教堂，以吸引女性游客。 A huge glass... what? 巨型水晶啥？ Yes...
When it comes to making up passwords, were not doing so great as a society. 在编密码这件事上，大部分人的表现都不怎么样。 Password management firm SplashData released its annual Worst Passwords List, revealing that humans have re...
Can you remember who your best friend was in seventh grade? If you are having difficulty, it could be because relationships at that age are often short-lived. Half don't last a year. The friendships that do last can be predicted based on demographic...
Americans get the best new handsets from Apple first. But in China, there are ways of living your life through a smartphone that left us jealous. China has even figured out a business model to legitimately stream the current season Game of Thrones on...
You cant judge a book by its cover, but a new investigation suggests that you can tell a lot about a person by the look of their face. Here are three of the most revealing facial features: 你不能从一本书的封面判断它的内容，然而，一...
Word play is a literary technique and a form of wit in which the words that are used become the main subject of the work, primarily for the purpose of intended effect or amusement. Examples of word play include puns, phonetic mix-ups such as spooneri...
Amazon put out its list of 2015's best-sellers today, and the selection was an intriguing mix of history, potboilers and mystery, with Hawkins' debut novel -- about an alcoholic woman struggling to remember a possible crime -- at No. 1. 亚马逊公布...
If only it were possible to really know what a job will be like, before you take it. Unfortunately, no matter how carefully you prepare and weigh the pros and cons before accepting a new position, there's no way to be 100 percent sure what you're get...
