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The Lunar New Year kicked off this Tuesday and, while people around the world celebrated, Google cheered online with its own Doodle. It’s the biggest holiday of the year for Chinese communities and ...

Feb. 5 marks the first day of the lunar calendar, a holiday, also known as the Spring Festival or Chinese New Year, celebrated around the world. The Spring Festival is technically 15 days, according ...

With the help of a group of young people, Pickens Police apprehended an elusive pig Saturday afternoon.According to the Pickens Police Chief Randall Beach, 'Max BLT' as he's affectionately known, has ...

CHINESE New Year is TODAY and Google is celebrating the start of the festivity by creating a special Doodle animation marking the holiday. But what is this year’s zodiac, and what else has Google done ...

Welcome to the year of the Pig! Yesterday's new moon kicked off the start of the lunar new year for many East Asian cultures, according to a blog post from Google celebrating the milestone. Today's ...

This little piggy went wee, wee, wee into prehistory. Archaeologists believe they have discovered the oldest painting of an animal in human history — a portly pig drawn in ocher on the Indonesian ...

Aristos is a Newsweek science and health reporter with the London, U.K., bureau. He is particularly focused on archaeology and paleontology, although he has covered a wide variety of topics ranging ...

CHINESE New Year is TODAY and Google is celebrating the start of the festivity by creating a special Doodle animation marking the holiday. But what is this year's zodiac, and what else has Google done ...

Chinese New Year takes place on Tuesday 5 February, its precise date varying annually in accordance with the country’s lunisolar calendar. Celebrated not just in China but overseas in Singapore, ...