China's Ministry of Agriculture has confirmed a foot-and-mouth outbreak involving 53 head of cattle, in the northwestern Qinghai Province.

A southeast China university looks set to become the latest round of a national debate on the benefits of demanding that all its freshmen learn to play golf.

A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 6.8 struck the New Britain region of Papua New Guinea Tuesday, reports reaching in Canberra said.

More than 800 helicopters have been manufactured by China since it established a helicopter manufacturing industry more than 50 years ago. Over 30 different models have been built including the 701, helicopter 6, helicopter 7, helicopter 8, helicopter 9 and helicopter 11.

China will establish 41 superior agriculture product belts to promote the regional arrangement of various products during the 11th Five-Year Plan (2006-2010).

According to China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), 113.8 million people aged 15 or more are unable to read, and 83.83 million of those are women, accounting for more than 70 percent.

"The Grudge 2" topped the box office in the last weekend in the United States, raking in 20.8 million U.S. dollars, showed final figures released on Monday.

Costa Rica's drug control police said on Monday that they arrested a Spanish woman in San Jose's Juan Santamaria International Airport, who was trying to smuggle 9.6 kg of cocaine out of the country.

China will seek to have its four ancient writing tools - the brush, ink stick, paper and inkstone - included in the world's intangible heritage list.

China plans to build about 500 to 600 kilometers of urban track transport in the next five years with a total investment of some 170 billion yuan (or 21.2 billion US dollars ), said Vice Minister of Construction Huang Wei at the country's first forum on key technologies of urban track communication held recently in Nanjing, the capital of east China's Jiangsu Province.