Spinning brooms clean country road in China

This unique invention seems able to scrub up to the task of cleaning roads in Henan Province, China.

A homemade road-sweeping machine is used to help keep Henan Province in China clean.

Workers came up with the idea of attaching nine brooms to a spinning wheel on a trailer, which is pulled by their vehicle.

The brooms are at just the right height to sweep debris from the road as the vehicle passes by.

Although the contraption is very unusual looking, according to the workers it is extremely effective.

China to build £500,000 footbridges for monkeys

Two 800ft-long footbridges will let monkeys cross from mountain to mountain in China's Henan province.

A colony of 500 rhesus monkeys will soon be able to cross between two Chinese mountains using a pair of footbridges.

The monkeys, who live in a nature reserve at Taihang mountain in Henan province, will be divided later this year by a new 12 mile-long water reservoir.

More than 3,000 Chinese villagers have already been moved out of the area in order to accommodate the reservoir, receiving a total of £900,000 in compensation for their flooded homes.

But the local government will now spend more than half as much again - another £500,000 - on two footbridges so that the monkeys can move freely around their habitat.

"The bridges are just for the monkeys, no humans allowed," said Wang Xiangdong, a director at the nature reserve.