Five years ago, Luo Huazhong discovered that he enjoyed doing nothing.... Luo, 31, wrote in a blog post in April, describing his way of life.... “ I don’t feel like there’s anything wrong.” He titled his post “ Lying Flat Is Justice, ” attaching a photo of himself lying on his bed in a dark room with the curtains drawn....

At the risk of exaggeration, you haven’t really lived until you’ve seen an elephant on security-camera footage.... In a clip that has transfixed Chinese social media, five elephants pass slowly through a car dealership, indifferent to human attention.... Like blurry paranormal footage, these are images meant to demonstrate the existence of something images can’t explain.In April of last year, more than a dozen Asian elephants ventured out from a nature preserve in southwest Yunnan province, ne

We’re covering Covax’s failures and Simone Biles’s return at the Olympics. How Covax fell short The multibillion-dollar alliance of international health systems and nonprofits was supposed to ensure that poor countries received vaccines as quickly as rich ones.... Instead, Covax struggled in its attempts to secure doses, falling half a billion short of its target, and is now failing to actually deliver the vaccine. Chad received 100, 000 doses in June, but five weeks later some 94, 000 doses re