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The grizzly bear has been taken out of the list of endangered species in the Yellowstone National Park area by the US Fish and wildlife service. The large brownish-yellow animal can grow to weigh over 600 kilograms.
It was added to the list in 1975...
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The crisis in Zimbabwe took a turn for the worst on Thursday when thousands of paramilitary police from Angola arrived on the government’s request. Zimbabwe’s Home Affairs Minister, Kembo Mohadi, confirmed their imminent arrival. Thousands...
Flocks of ring-necked parakeets, Psittacula krameri, inhabit the open lands, parks and gardens in the southern suburbs of London. No one knows how these birds came to live in London. Their native habitat stretches from Africa to India and the...
Four days of negotiations on freezing North Korea’s nuclear programme were derailed on Thursday after no progress was seen by Pyongyang in unfreezing its funds in a Macau bank as promised.
North Korea has been insisting since Monday on...
Botanists from Iowa State University and University of North Carolina have recently discovered a new species of bamboo in North America. This is the third known native species of bamboo in the United States.
The hardy grass called ‘hill...
The Public Employees Union (PEU) of Fiji has declared a strike after the military government reduced the salaries of civil servants by five percent as part of an emergency budget earlier this month.
The provisions of this budget are aimed at shoring...
Pakistan military said on Thursday that it had successfully test-fired a nuclear-capable cruise missile which can avoid radar detection.
Pakistan’s Inter-Services Public Relations Directorate said ‘the missile, Babur or Hatf VII, has a...
A meeting of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) on Wednesday in Windhowek in Namibia concluded without achieving much about the situation in Zimbabwe.
But Mwanawasa, the president of Zambia, made a strong statement when he said...
The continuing internal conflict and violence in Iraq has resulted in the exodus of large number of refugees into neighboring countries. Thousands of Iraqis flee their country each day and enter Syria and Jordan, which they find more receptive than...
About 300,000 seals are killed annually on the ice covered Atlantic seaboard of Canada. The commercial hunting begins at the end of March every year. The hunt is a centuries old occupation here. The low-income fishing communities here make about a...
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