A day after a jubilant first delivery, giant panda Mei Xiang gave birth to a second cub Saturday night, but it was stillborn. Washington’s celebrity panda gave birth to the first cub Friday, to the excitement of hordes of fans watching it on public panda cams. The cub, about the size of a stick of butter, appeared to be doing well. So was its mom, who was cradling it in […]

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In the 1860s and 70s, photographer Timothy O’Sullivan created some of the best-known images in American History. After covering the U.S. Civil War, O’Sullivan joined a number of expeditions organized by the federal government to help document the new frontiers in the American West. The teams were composed of soldiers, scientists, artists, and photographers, and tasked with discovering the best ways to take advantage of the region’s untapped natural resources. O’Sullivan […]

Spanish marine biologists mystified by thecreature that was spotted dead in the shallows by a woman on the beach at Villaricos With its horns, long white body and slithery form, it looks like a mythical beast But this four-metre long horned creature is only too real – as the stench from its decomposing flesh proved. The mysterious sea creature was washed ashore in Villaricos, Spain – and tests are being […]

Maciej Winiarczyk, 41, captured the images in Caithness, Scotland Noctilucent, or ‘night-shining’, clouds are normally too faint to be seen Half way through the video the clouds are joined by a spectacular aurora A stunning time-lapse video of a rare celestial show has been captured dancing across a night sky. The recording gives a rare glimpse of rolling noctilucent clouds and dancing aurora glimmering across the horizon. The astronomer witnessed […]

Gaton Upper Locks, August 5, 1911 Ninety-nine years ago Thursday, the Panama Canal officially opened when the ship Ancon traversed it from end to end—more than three decades after construction had started. The ground was broken by the French in 1880. When their construction efforts for the single storey home designs faltered and funds ran out, Americans—spearheaded by President Teddy Roosevelt—bought the rights and took over the task in 1904. It […]

Questions have been asked, and inadequately answered, about the group of monuments at Mamallapuram, 90 km south of Chennai off the East Coast Road. While the Five Rathas and the Shore Temple are reasonably well documented and publicised, the bric-a-brac cluster of monuments along the road still poses a mystery. They are free to visit, which makes them a popular haunt with tourists — and monkeys who chase after them […]

PETALING JAYA,Malaysia: A foreign maid has alleged that her agent is demanding RM6,500 or one of her kidneys in exchange for her passport to return home. P. Jayadevi from Madurai in India is trying to go home after receiving news that her husband is ill but is stuck in Malaysia after the agent went missing with her passport and other travel documents. “I have begged him to let me go […]

Ernest Shackleton’s famous ship, the Endurance, which he had to abandon in 1915 on his ill-fated Antarctic expedition, is probably still in very good condition on the ocean floor. This is one conclusion from research that studied how sunken wood degrades in southern polar waters. Experiments that submerged planks for over a year found they returned to the surface in near-pristine condition. Scientists point to the absence in the region […]

Academic Zhang Lin has spent six years shifting rocks and rubble to the roof to create this mountaintop penthouse But residents say he is a ‘menace’ and has caused cracks in the building and leaks from broken pipes Officials say he had no planning permission for the ‘extension’ but it will only be demolished if proven unsafe A Chinese man has spent six years building his dream mountaintop villa on […]