A study made by University of Massachusetts researchers showed that about 85 percent Canadian currency contain trace amounts of cocaine. Canada and the U.S. topped the list of nations with high levels of cocaine traces.

University of Massachusetts chemistry professor Yuegang Zuo, who led the research team, presented their findings Sunday at the 238th national meeting of the American Chemical Society.

A Chinese bride wore a 7,093-foot-long gown on her wedding day Thursday as her groom wanted to beat the world record for the longest wedding gown.

Groom Zhao Peng, 28, and his family and relatives made the dress for Lin Rong, 25, to also show his love for her. It took three months to make at a cost of $5,852.

Chinese researchers have impregnated a panda with a frozen sperm and the artificial insemination yielded a healthy baby panda on Thursday.

The mother panda named You You gave birth at the Bifengxia breeding base in Ya'an City in southwest China's Sichuan province, the researchers from the China Giant Panda Protection and Research Center announced Friday.

Millions of people in Asia watched Wednesday's total solar eclipse lasting more than six minutes, the longest since July 11, 1991.

Indians, Nepalese, Myanmarese, Bangladeshis, Bhutanese and Chinese gathered on rooftops, planetariums, riverbanks and open grounds to see the moon cover the sun in the morning.

The Chinese government has stopped a controversial practice of electrically shocking teens to stop them from obsessive Internet use, according to reports.

Shock therapy was being used by a hospital in the country's Shandong Province as a way to treat Internet addiction, but the Ministry of Health ordered the facility to stop the practice.