1995 file photo of newborn (4 hours when photo was taken) beluga calf Qila cavorting with mother Aurora at the Vancouver Aquarium. Photograph by: Peter Battistoni, Vancouver Sun Files   Researchers at the University of British Columbia warned scientists Thursday they had found evidence that an infectious form of a cat parasite had spread through Arctic waters and has begun to appear in Beluga whales. Michael Grigg and Stephen Raverty […]

In Pic :Neil Hamer feeds a four-year-old bear named Wimpy in 2012. The Ontario Court of Appeal has just ruled against him, upholding a by-law passed to prohibit feeding bears. Soon after the coming thaw, as she has done for years, a great black mother bear known as Belles will leave her den in the woods of northern Muskoka and saunter down to Neil Hamer’s general store, looking for her […]

After the 1991 fall of dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam made Ethiopia more amenable to visitors, hardy tourists started to make their way to the remote town of Lalibela, perched in Ethiopia’s Lasta mountains at 2,600m. The town is home to 11 medieval rock-cut churches so revered, Unesco included them on the original World Heritage list in 1978 – a list of then only 12 sites, which now has grown to […]

  STORY HIGHLIGHTS NEW: “Treasure pulled out of the sea” Fisherman Jwdat Abu Ghrb says he discovered the statue off Gaza The statue appeared on eBay with a starting price of $500,000, authorities say When Jwdat Abu Ghrb spotted a dark shape last summer in the waters off Gaza, where he was diving for fish, he initially thought it was a corpse. “I was afraid,” he told CNN. “I put […]

More than a third of the world’s cocoa is grown in Ivory Coast, West Africa. STORY HIGHLIGHTS CNN’s Freedom Project returned to Africa’s cocoa plantations to look for progress in fight against child labor Ivory Coast produces more than one third of all the world’s cocoa, but many farmers live in poverty The cocoa industry supports about six million people in the West African nation Growers’ position at the bottom […]

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The release of 65 men from a detention centre at Bagram had been criticised in unusually strong terms by the US in Afghanistan for months before it finally happened. They say the men are “dangerous insurgents”, and the Afghan authorities never seriously considered the evidence. US forces say this violated the terms of an agreement for the US to hand over full control of the detention centre to Afghanistan. All […]

First a Noah’s Ark discovery raised a flood of questions, then there was the much-hyped debate over life’s origins between Bill Nye the Science Guy and creationist Ken Ham. And now this: a scientific report establishing that camels, the basic mode of transportation for the biblical patriarchs, weren’t domesticated in Israel until hundreds of years after Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are said to have wandered the earth. Using radiocarbon dating […]

Winds gusting at speeds exceeding 100mph are battering parts of the UK after the Met Office issued its first “red warning” of the winter, meaning there could be a risk to life. “I’m the landlady of the Cove House Inn in Chiswell and we were hit by a session of massive waves last Wednesday. It was very, very scary – very rough. The waves must have been about 100ft high […]

KARACHI, Pakistan – A bomb attack killed at least 11 police officers and wounded 42 others in Pakistan’s southern city of Karachi on Thursday, police said. A van exploded after hitting a bus the officers boarded moments after it had left a training school in what appeared to be a suicide attack, said police officer Rao Anwaar. Nearly 50 officers on board the bus came from a special commando force, […]