STORY HIGHLIGHTS  Copenhagen Zoo official: If we sterilized giraffe, he’d just take up needed space Giraffe’s autopsy performed outside in front of people at Copenhagen Zoo Zoo says giraffe killed because of a duty to avoid inbreeding Giraffe’s carcass was fed to zoo’s carnivores An online petition to save a healthy young giraffe from death has failed, despite thousands of signatures from animal lovers. Copenhagen Zoo said it euthanized the […]

The extent of corruption in Europe is “breathtaking” and it costs the EU economy at least 120bn euros (£99bn) annually, the European Commission says. EU Home Affairs Commissioner Cecilia Malmstroem has presented a full report on the problem. She said the true cost of corruption was “probably much higher” than 120bn. Three-quarters of Europeans surveyed for the Commission study said that corruption was widespread, and more than half said the […]

The necessary cells can be found in the back of everyone’s eyes Cells taken from the donated eyes of dead people may be able to give sight to the blind, researchers suggest. Tests in rats, reported in Stem Cells Translational Medicine, showed the human cells could restore some vision to completely blind rats. The team at University College London said similar results in humans would improve quality of life, but […]

The New Man was once a radical way to describe a male who wholeheartedly accepted equality in domestic life. But 30 years on, what has happened to the term? The New Man rose to prominence in the 1980s like an exotic new species, happy to do the washing up or change a nappy. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the New Man was someone “who rejects sexist attitudes and the […]

A Guantanamo detainee, Abdel Malik Ahmed Abdel Wahab al-Rahabi, appears before a board on Tuesday. Like others held at the prison, he will wait to hear his fate. The hearing is the first one open to journalists under the Obama administration. More are planned. It is a hopeful sign for detainees. Al-Rahabi and others will be allowed to speak their mind – and say why they should be released. It […]