BEIJING (AFP) - Beijing is experiencing its warmest February on record, leading to a skating ban on the Chinese capital's normally frozen lakes and an early blossoming of trees, state press has reported. Temperatures are rising to levels not seen for at least 167 years, with the mercury hitting 16 degrees Celsius (60 degrees Fahrenheit) on Monday, the Beijing Daily Messenger newspaper cited the local observatory as saying. "This is the highest level since meteorological records started being taken in 1840," Guo Hu, the head of Beijing Municipal Observatory, told the paper. At the weekend, which marked the official start...