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The remote island situated between Shetland and Orkney was bought by George Waterston, an Edinburgh ornithologist, in 1948. He set up a bird observatory which has since built up a
Already home to replicas of the Eiffel Tower and Sphinx, Las Vegas now has its own copy of Belgium’s Manneken-Pis, a statue of a naked little boy relieving himself into
"We have reached a conclusion that it would be only appropriate for us to drop the logo and develop a new emblem," said Toshio Muto, director general of the Tokyo
Rihanna says she's thrilled to have had a decade-long career in music and she plans on celebrating the feat at some point this year. "Definitely a very big deal for me.
CHINA has established a USD10 billion fund to support the country's industrial cooperation with Latin America, the central bank announced yesterday. Initiated by the People's Bank of China (PBOC), the
The State Department made public roughly 7,121 pages of Hillary Rodham Clinton's emails late Monday night (yesterday, Macau time), including 125 emails that were censored prior to their release because
President Barack Obama is painting a doomsday scenario for the Arctic and beyond if climate change isn't dealt with fast: entire nations submerged underwater, cities abandoned and refugees fleeing in
The death toll from violent protests in Ukraine rose to three yesterday when two more National Guard officers died from injuries suffered in a grenade explosion, officials said. In the worst
Hungary suspended all rail traffic yesterday from its main terminal in Budapest and cleared the train station of hundreds of migrants trying to board trains for Austria and Germany —
A Benedictine monk who works at a Rhode Island school has discovered that finding solitude is no easy feat, even 53 meters in the air. Brother Joseph Byron was recently
MALAYSIA’s prime minister vows he will not quit over a USD700 million financial scandal, and accuses protesters of showing “poor national spirit” by holding a massive rally to demand his
Austria stepped up truck inspections yesterday at its Hungarian border after 71 migrants apparently suffocated in one, creating a massive, 30-kilometer traffic jam on the main Budapest-Vienna highway. In addition to
Shrinking glaciers, Arctic temperatures and a mix of messy energy politics await President Barack Obama on his trip to Alaska. Even before he departed, Obama was making waves with a
Islamic State militants in Syria severely damaged the Bel Temple, considered one of the greatest sites of the ancient world, in a massive explosion Sunday, activists said. The 2,000-year-old temple was
King Idris of Libya has been deposed in what appears to have been a bloodless coup. A group of military officers have seized power and declared the country a republic.
Tiny Estonia just got a little bit bigger. Modern technology has made Estonia grow by 112 square kilometers by including 834 islands that were not accounted for in earlier surveys.
The owner of a Southern California golf club, who raised a stink by spreading chicken manure on the course, has agreed to pay USD100,000 to air pollution regulators. The San Diego Union-Tribune
CHINESE border patrol officials seized 620 wild turtles and tortoises — 510 of them considered endangered — that were found alive in a shipment of frozen seafood from Vietnam, state
An Egyptian court sentenced three Al-Jazeera English journalists to three years in prison on Saturday for broadcasting “false news,” sparking an international outcry and underlining how authorities are trampling over
European countries will increase identity checks and baggage controls on trains after American passengers thwarted an attack on a high-speed train from Amsterdam to Paris, France’s interior minister said Saturday. Bernard
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