The bid to save Marius the giraffe from destruction at Copenhagen Zoo has failed, and the animal was put down…
Danish animal rights campaigners are trying to save a healthy young giraffe at Copenhagen Zoo from being destroyed. The zoo…
Australian scientists are working to classify a new species of giant jellyfish that washed up on a beach in Tasmania.…
Tradesman liability insurance is something that every self-employed person must have by law. There are two main parts of this…
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, is launching a course on Beyonce. The Department of Women's and Gender Studies…
Chinese Moon rover Jade Rabbit is in trouble after experiencing a "mechanical control abnormality", state media report. The Moon exploration…
Researchers have found that a 7,000-year-old man whose bones were left behind in a Spanish cave had the dark skin…
Genetically modified purple tomato large-scale production is now under way in Canada with the first 1,200 litres of purple tomato…
Brazilian scientists have discovered the first new river dolphin species since the end of World War One. Named after the…
Hundreds of people have been evacuated from historic village of Laerdalsoyri in southern Norway as a raging fire threatens its…
Hiroo Onoda, the Japanese soldier who refused to surrender after WWII ended and spent 29 years in the jungle, has…
Scientists may have solved the mystery of why so many birds fly in a V formation. Scientists from the Royal…
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie will propose a longer school day and extending the school calendar in his State of…
The Akademik Shokalskiy and Chinese icebreaker Xue Long have broken free from Antarctic ice where they had been stranded for…
US ice-breaker Polar Star is to help the Chinese and Russian ships that are stuck in thick ice in Antarctica…
Chinese ice-breaker Xue Long that helped rescue passengers stranded on the Akademik Shokalskiy vessel in Antarctica is now stuck itself.…
Passengers from the ice-bound research vessel Akademik Shokalskiy are to be rescued in Antarctica. A helicopter from a Chinese ship…
"Selfie", "twerking" and "hashtag" top 2014 Lake Superior State University List of Banished Words. LSSU collected suggestions from members of…
El Salvador has resumed evacuating residents living on the slopes of the Chaparrastique volcano. The 7,000 ft-high volcano started erupting…
A rescue mission for Akademik Shokalskiy scientific ship stuck in ice in Antarctica is under threat as reports have emerged…
Russian ship Akademik Shokalskiy stranded in East Antarctica since Christmas Day remained stuck as the latest rescue efforts were thwarted…
An Australian vessel is en route to East Antarctica in a renewed bid to free Akademik Shokalskiy scientific mission ship…
Russian Akademik Shokalskiy scientific mission ship, trapped in dense pack ice off East Antarctica, is still awaiting rescue after Chinese…
The Russian scientific mission ship, trapped in dense pack ice off East Antarctica since Christmas Day, is close to being…
British computer pioneer and codebreaker Alan Turing has been given a posthumous royal pardon. Queen Elizabeth II granted a rare…