For species classified as "extinct in the wild", the zoos and botanical gardens where their fates hang by a thread are as often anterooms to oblivion as gateways to recovery, new research has shown.. "This is an overlooked category," the researchers noted.
At first glance, it is a house like dozens of others in the crowded favelas of Brazil.. The narrow, twisting roads in the favela are difficult for vehicles to navigate.
The Flying Scotsman, the first steam train to reach over 100 miles an hour, turned 100 on Friday, whistling its way into Edinburgh's Waverley station to mark the day.. It was the first train to complete the journey non-stop and in 1934 became the first steam train to travel at over 100 miles per hour.
The World Health Organization said Friday it was concerned about bird flu after the father of a 11-year-old Cambodian girl who died from the disease also tested positive, raising fears of human-to-human transmission.. On Friday, the authorities said the girl's 49-year-old father had tested positive, adding that he was asymptomatic.
Villagers in Cramant in France's Champagne are being treated to a rare sight: little pigs grubbing around the vines that produce the region's famed bubbly, an alternative to chemical or mechanical means of fighting weeds and pests.. Their "thorough" and "precise" work can fight weeds as well as mildew and other fungi and aerate the soil, says wine industry consultant Olivier Zebic.
Cats in velvet, cats in skirts, cats in sunglasses, cats in football kits: hundreds of felines were dressed to the nines Friday for Bangladesh's largest-ever cat show.. "There is a tendency to cause harm to cats everywhere," he said.
In the heart of the Ecuadoran Amazon live the Cofan Avie, masters of ayahuasca -- the powerful hallucinogenic concoction said to open the door to the "spirit" world.. It is through yage medicine that we can connect to the spirits and... rebalance the world."
White Helmets rescuers in rebel-held northwest Syria called on international help Friday to save people with quake-related crush injuries after a boy they rescued died from the condition.. The group had spearheaded rescue efforts in rebel-held areas with virtually no outside help after a 7.8-magnitude quake that struck war-torn Syria and Turkey on February 6 killed more than 46,000 people.
Publisher Puffin UK on Friday announced it would release the original versions of Roald Dahl's children's books to keep the "classic texts in print" following a wave of criticism over their re-editing for a modern audience.. "We also recognise the importance of keeping Dahl's classic texts in print," she added, saying readers could now choose whether to read the original or re-edited versions.
In Jimmy Carter’s hometown of Plains, Georgia, a giant roadside statue of a peanut bearing the former president's toothy grin draws carloads of tourists, but for those living in the camper park directly behind it, the enormous caricature signifies home.. Since Carter recently began hospice care at his nearby home, the traffic at the peanut statue has picked up –- and residents of the Plains RV Park have taken note.
