Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi walks in during the red carpet event for the 2nd Beijing International Film Festival on Tuesday. (AFP)Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi is suing a US-based Chinese online news outlet over claims that she was a prostitute who had sex with top official Bo Xilai and others, a lawyer said Wednesday.The "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" star is taking legal action for libel in Los An

 A woman who survived a deadly shooting in Texas told jurors her former boyfriend was the trigger man.Candice Moten, who survived an attack that killed her mother, sister and caused her to lose her unborn baby, told a jury James David Morrison opened fire after the women accused him of slashing the tires on their car. Lying wounded, Moten‘s mother Laura said, “I’m not dead yet,” at which point Mor

This image is not directly related to the article. (123rf)A Canadian man was arrested and his partner was sought in the alleged chaining of a teenage boy who was sexually assaulted, police said.David J. Leblanc, 47, of Nova Scotia was arrested Sunday after a motorist reported seeing a suspicious man walking on a logging road in Ontario without shoes, CBC News reported.Police say Leblanc and a sec

 A New York state man whose 1,505.5-pound pumpkin took the top prize at a festival said his secret is “lots of water and lots of luck.”Karl Haist of Clarence Center, who took first in the 30th World Pumpkin Weigh-off at the Great Pumpkin Farm‘s fall festival in Clarence, said he has been growing pumpkins for 10 years, The Buffalo (N.Y.) News reported Monday.Haist, who said his prize-winning pumpki

 Researchers in Scotland say they have developed a see-through soil that will enable scientists to study roots in detail for the first time.The underground world of plant roots is called the rhizosphere and scientists at the University of Abertay Dundee and the James Hutton institute, writing in the journal PLos ONE, say creation of the new transparent soil marks a research milestone that will hav