An appeal by a convicted serial killer against his death sentence, including a "confession" to another murder for which a man was executed, was rejected by a court on Friday.
Medical experts called for public awareness of the danger of wasps after stings claimed 19 lives within three months in Ankang, Shaanxi province.
Police in central China's Hunan Province have arrested a man suspected of injuring three nurses with a knife in the latest hospital attack.
More than half of China's elderly have health problems and their lifestyles are believed to be a leading contributor, officials and medical experts said.
The teenage son of a famous Chinese military singer was sentenced to 10 years for rape on Thursday.
In 1987, the first e-mail from China read: "Across the Great Wall we can reach every corner in the world". A quarter of a century later, the Internet is reshaping every corner of China.
Li Baozhong, a 24-year-old migrant worker in the daytime, is a dance instructor at night. He gives free dance lessons at the Migrant Workers' Home, a cultural center established by and for migrant workers in the village of Picun in suburban Beijing.
Chinese couples are the most sexually active in the Asia-Pacific region, but a large number remain dissatisfied with their sex life, according to a survey by the International Society of Sexual Medicine.
A band takes its commitment to folk music on a national tour for the first time.
Education departments and schools across the country have been urged to add education on sexual assault prevention to classes to prevent more children falling victim to molesters.
China is to tighten supervision of websites and cell phone applications to fight lewd content and aggressive remarks aimed at young people.
Although the number of foreign students studying on the Chinese mainland has increased steadily, it still falls far behind the number of Chinese students studying abroad.