Usually, when a person is in prison, playing video games is the last thing they would expect to be doing. Oddly enough, a prisoner at the Jixi labor camp in north-east China says he and his inmates were forced into "farming virtual gold" after a hard day of physical labor.

China told us last year that they plan to build a space station by 2020, but on Monday at the Airshow China exhibition they revealed a lot more detail about the Heavenly Palace.

You're probably thinking, "WTF?" But we assure you, the ten feet long electric shoe car you see in the picture above is not a work of Photoshop.

The United States' robotic space plane, the X-37B, successfully returned to Earth last December after spending seven months in orbit doing nobody knows what. Now, it seems as though Russia and China want a piece of the space robot action too. Looks like we might finally get that spaceship battle we've been waiting for since the dawn of sci-fi.