A bus overturned on a highway and was hit by an oncoming truck in eastern China on Friday, killing at least 10 people, officials said.A number of others were also injured, the government of Wuhu city in Anhui province said. The crash was under investigation.

Some 800 tonnes of smuggled frozen meat have been seized by Chinese authorities, including one batch dating from the 1970s, state media reported.

Mount Everest, the world's highest peak, was moved 3 centimeters (about 1.2 inches) southwest by the magnitude-7.8 earthquake that devastated Nepal in April, Chinese authorities say.

Soldiers retrieved the body of a 3-year-old girl on the fourth floor of a capsized Chinese cruise ship, adding to a grim, growing toll.The toddler's body was among those recovered Saturday after theship was lifted, said Liu Xiaowu of Guangzhou Military Command.It brings the total number of bodies found so far to 396, Chinese state media reported. An additional 46 people remain unaccounted for.Of the 456 people on board, 14 survived.

Rescuers are scrambling to find survivors from a cruise ship that sank with 458 people aboard during a storm on China's Yangtze River, authorities said.

Wearing only his underpants, Gao Bingguo set a new Guinness World Record after he covered himself with almost 1.1 million bees, collectively weighing 240 pounds.The 55-year-old beekeeper accomplished the feat Monday morning in Tai'an, China.

Thirty-eight people were killed and six others injured after a fire broke out at a nursing home in central China late Monday, authorities said.Two of the injured were seriously hurt, the Administration of Work Safety in Henan province said in a statement.

China is considering landing a spacecraft on the moon's "dark side" in 2020 -- a mission, which, if successful, would make it the first country to do so, state media reports.

China has now invited Russian troops to march in a World War Two parade in Beijing as their close alliance continued with Vladimir Putin cosying up to his Chinese counterpart in Moscow on Saturday.