A man from China got the shock of his life upon discovering a chicken he placed in the freezer for two days came out alive and crowing. According to Gan Shugen, of Chengdu City, he got the hen which was wrapped in a thick plastic bag with its legs bound as a gift from a relative.

ree press advocates in China are sounding the alarms after a Chinese man was beaten to death by officials after trying to film a confrontation between city officials and residents of Wanba village in Tianmen over the dumping of waste near their village. According to the report, 24 municipal inspectors have been detained so far for their involvement in the incident, in which 41-year-old construction company executive Wei Wenhua was beaten to death for trying to record a scuffle between city officials and village residents on his cell phone. The villagers were attempting to stop trucks from unloading waste near their homes when the fight broke out.

Two British adventurers travelled 2,600 miles from Dorset, England to Timbuktu and back onboard a Ford Iveco Cargo lorry and Land Cruisers, using biodiesel made from waste chocolate. Andy Pag, 34, and John Grimshaw, 39, set off from the latter's home at Poole, Dorset, on November 26 and arrived in Mali, West Africa on Boxing Day, overcoming sand storms and corrupt customs officials, and driving through a town where days later al-Qaeda terrorists shot dead a French family, to deliver a biodiesel processing unit and the vans to a charity.

Around 20 riot police were summoned to help pacify angry tourists in Macau, China who claimed they were being forced into shopping by being led to shops instead of being shown the country's cultural heritage. The tourists complained their guides were pressuring them to buy foods and other goodies instead of showing them more of the former Portuguese colony's historic sites.

A 52-year old man from Wuhan, China had started perspiring green sweat baffling local doctors who to date has failed to diagnose the cause despite numerous testing. Cheng Shunguo, claims he began perspiring green sweat sometime in the middle of November, though he hastens to add it causes him no discomfort.