A DRINK-DRIVER crashed his car, before fleeing barefoot across fields in freezing temperatures in a desperate bid to get away from the scene. Henry McKeever, 26, in his Volkswagen Golf ploughed into ...

My father became a barefoot doctor in 1969. As part of China’s Cultural Revolution from 1966 to 1976, millions of urban youth were sent to the countryside to work and live with the rural populations.

SHILONG, China -- An old peasant clutching a long pipe burst into hacking coughs. He took a few deep drags, then hacked even louder. “Don’t worry, he’s been coughing like that for years. He doesn’t ...