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A beekeeper sat with the top half of his body covered in bees for nearly an hour and set a new Guinness World Record

A beekeeper sat with the top half of his body covered in bees for nearly an hour and set a new Guinness World Record on Tuesday in Yichun City, east China's Jiangxi Province. Covered with a layer of honey, beekeeper Ruan Liangming sat on a stool without any protection for his eyes, nose or mouth for 53 minutes and 34 seconds, which smashed his own Guinness World Record - 20 minutes.

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Michelle Obama delivered remarks and offered a Q&A at the prestigious Chengdu No. 7 High School in Sichuan province – as well as 12,000 long-distance students via satellite – and tried her hand at the traditional Chinese exercise regime tai chi

On the final leg of her six-day tour promoting education in China, first lady Michelle Obama delivered remarks and offered a Q&A at the prestigious Chengdu No. 7 High School in Sichuan province – as well as 12,000 long-distance students via satellite – and tried her hand at the traditional Chinese exercise regime tai chi.

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Visiting a country that blocks popular social media websites like Facebook and Twitter and widely censors news outlets, first lady Michelle Obama over the weekend told Beijing’s Peking University that open access to information is a universal right

Visiting a country that blocks popular social media websites like Facebook and Twitter and widely censors news outlets, first lady Michelle Obama over the weekend told an audience of college students at Beijing’s Peking University that open access to information is a universal right.

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