Poor thing, a tourist mountain lion that wandered into an Altadena neighborhood in Los Angeles was tranquilized Monday and removed by authorities, a state wildlife official said.
The lion was first spotted around 7AM after ambling a mile and a half from Angeles National Forest, California Department of Fish and Game spokesman Steve Martarano said. No […]

Thrifty Belgians are causing a headache for Dutch supermarkets by gathering large numbers of plastic Coca Cola bottles and bringing them across the border to the Netherlands to collect the deposit, Dutch media reported Tuesday.
The scheme takes advantage of a recent move by Coke’s Dutch arm to introduce new bottles that are identical to the […]

Scientists have found what they believe are traces of the lost Indonesian civilization of Tambora, which was wiped out in 1815 by the biggest volcanic eruption in recorded history.
Mount Tambora’s cataclysmic eruption on April 10, 1815, buried the inhabitants of Sumbawa Island under searing ash, gas and rock and is blamed for an estimated 88,000 […]

Steve Jones read a newspaper report about an unclaimed Powerball ticket worth more than $853,000. So, he decided to do a little housecleaning.
He swept three tickets out from under his bed, and one of them ended up being the winner.
Jones’ ticket was to expire April 17th. So Jones quickly turned in the ticket to the […]

There was a streaker during the men’s curling bronze medal match Friday at the Winter Olympics.
A man wearing what appeared to be a strategically placed rubber chicken ran onto one of the covered sheets of ice not being used in the arena. He danced around for a bit but never tried to approach any of […]

Europe’s “Little Ice Age” may have been triggered by the 14th Century Black Death plague, according to a new study. Pollen and leaf data support the idea that millions of trees sprang up on abandoned farmland, soaking up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
This would have had the effect of cooling the climate, a team from […]

A whale has been blowing visitors away at a Japanese aquarium, after she learned to make bubble rings. Aliya the Beluga whale, who lives in Hamada City, picked up the trick when keepers noticed she could squirt water from her mouth.
They decided to use scuba gear to let her have a go with air, and […]

Scientists say it may be possible to predict how well we will remember something before the event has even taken place. By analysing scans, they discovered the brain must get into the ‘right frame of mind’ to store new information.
For top performance, the brain must mobilise its resources, not only at the moment we get […]

With more than 1 million copies in print, “Marley and Me — Life and Love with the World’s Worst Dog” has struck a chord with dog lovers who are laughing and crying over author John Grogan’s account of his yellow Labrador retriever.
The story is more than a recounting of Marley’s antics that include chewing through […]

Ten years ago, a stroll through central Tokyo could leave travelers wondering what country they were in as they watched a parade of tanned, fair-haired women walking tall in precarious platform shoes.
Now fashion has moved on and hairdressers say bleached blonde tresses are going the way of fake tans, although a dark brown tint still […]