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An ice-skating bear with a touring Russian circus has ****** a circus manager and seriously injured a trainer in the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8320849.stm

A picture of a hunting wolf has won the prestigious Veolia Environment Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2009 award. Jose Luis Rodriguez captured the imaginations of the judges with a picture that he had planned for years, and even sketched out on a piece of paper...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc1yeoEi3qY :rofl:

The 2009 United Nations World **** report, released earlier this year, notes that 2009 marks "the end of the first century of **** control (it all started in Shanghai in 1909)", and that the illicit **** market worldwide has now become a $320 billion-per-year industry. As ****-related ********...

Checking in with NASA's Cassini spacecraft, our current emissary to Saturn, some 1.5 billion kilometers (932 million miles) distant from Earth, we find it recently gathering images of the Saturnian system at equinox. During the equinox, the sunlight casts long shadows across Saturn's rings...

Art experts think they may have found the world's oldest painting to feature an image of a watch. The Science Museum is investigating the 450-year-old portrait, thought to be of Cosimo I de Medici, Duke of Florence, holding a golden timepiece...

Astronomers have announced a haul of planets found beyond our Solar System. The 32 "exoplanets" ranged in size from five times the mass of Earth to 5-10 times the mass of Jupiter, the researchers said. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8314581.stm

Earlier this month (October 4th) was World ****** Day. Started in 1931, the day was set aside to celebrate ****** life in all its forms around the world, and humankind's relationship with the ****** kingdom. Collected below are 41 photographs of ******* around the world, at play, at rest, at...

just seen this on the news A female motorist is facing court action for deliberately driving through a puddle and splashing a group of school ********...

Researchers in China and the UK say they have discovered the fossils of a new type of flying reptile that lived more than 160 million years ago. The find is named Darwinopterus, after Charles Darwin. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8306060.stm Minidogopterus sounds better

Remarkable slow-motion footage has been taken of two lizards that seem to do the impossible - walk on water. A high-definition film, shot at 2,000 frames per second, shows a brown basilisk lizard running across the surface of a pond in Belize. More footage shows how a species of gecko is so...

A spider that dines almost exclusively on plants has been described by scientists. It is the first-known predominantly vegetarian spider; all of the other known 40,000 spider species are thought to be mainly carnivorous http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8302535.stm a spider is a spider...

Stunning footage has been captured of three cheetahs cooperating to hunt and bring down an adult ostrich. The high-definition (HD) film of the hunt was recorded by a BBC crew for the natural history series Life. The behaviour could be unique among cheetahs, which are usually too slight to...

The Hubble telescope has provided new insight on 2 Pallas, one of the largest asteroids in the Solar System http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8301796.stm

It's that time of year again, the Earth's northern hemisphere is tipping away from the warmth of the Sun. Days in the north are getting cooler and shorter, leaves are changing, ******* migrating and many harvests are underway. The wet summer in New England this year should make 2009 a banner...

Star Trek http://facts.randomhistory.com/2009/08/11_star-trek.html

One of Europe's rarest bats has been found at a site in Wales further west than ever before recorded http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8263876.stm

After forming as a tropical depression over the Pacific Ocean about 1,000 km east of the Philippines on August 2nd, Typhoon Morakot built in power and moved quickly west. Over the past several days, the storm has ****** over the Philippines, Taiwan and Mainland China, causing hundreds of...

A Nasa space observatory launched in March this year has observed a planet circling another star. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8190123.stm

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/08/hiroshima_64_years_ago.html 34 pictures enjoy

Methane on Mars is produced and destroyed far faster than on Earth, according to analysis of recent data. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8186314.stm

Over the past few weeks, high temperatures and strong winds have fueled a number of devastating fires in countries around the Mediterranean Sea. Spain, France, Italy and Greece have had hundreds of thousands of acres of forest and farmland devastated, dozens of homes destroyed and at least seven...

Astronomers are puzzled by a strange bright spot which has appeared in the clouds of Venus. The spot was first identified by an amateur astronomer on 19 July and was later confirmed by the European Space Agency's Venus Express spacecraft. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8179067.stm

Aerial photographs have revealed the streetplan of a lost Roman city called Altinum, which some scholars regard as a forerunner of Venice. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8177529.stm

The football world is mourning the death of former England manager Sir Bobby Robson, who has died at the age of 76. http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Sir-Bobby-Robson-Dies-At-76-Former-England-Manager-Loses-Battle-Against-Cancer/Article/200907415350570

A weather front rolls in from the horizon, storm clouds darken the sky, and (at least 1.3 billion times a year) lightning strikes http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/07/lightning.html some cool photos

A 260-million-year-old fossil is the oldest known tree-dwelling creature, according to researchers http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8173117.stm

Health campaigners have called for a review of the ******* industry after a Scottish brewery launched Britain's strongest ****. http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Business/Britains-Strongest-****-Tokyo-From-BrewDog-Condemned-By-British-Liver-Trust/Article/200907415347202

Armoured crickets have a bizarre and striking way to avoid being eaten. http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8172000/8172168.stm

Watch the stadium for the London 2012 Olympics begin to take shape in Stratford - a year's progress in just over a minute. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympic_games/8169832.stm

Two thirds of all species of freshwater crab maybe at risk of going extinct, with one in six species particularly vulnerable, according to a new survey. http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8171000/8171268.stm

Hubble has trained its new camera on the atmospheric disturbance on Jupiter believed to have been caused by a comet or asteroid impact. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8168403.stm

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/07/the_longest_solar_eclipse_of_t.html pictures

Audio slideshow: Chandra's first decade Deployed by the space shuttle on 23 July 1999, the Chandra telescope is Nasa's flagship mission exploring the realms of X-ray astronomy. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8163008.stm

A detailed, functional artificial human brain can be built within the next 10 years, a leading scientist has claimed. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8164060.stm

Millions of people in Asia will see the longest total solar eclipse this century on Wednesday as swaths of India and China are plunged into darkness. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8161578.stm

Combine two of the most common materials found on the surface of our planet - dirt and water - and you get mud, which, in turn, can be played in, struggled through, rubbed on for medicinal value, or just worn for fun. Collected over the past few months from festivals sporting events and more...

David Beckham was involved in an angry confrontation with Los Angeles Galaxy fans during his first home game since completing his loan spell at AC Milan. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/8158547.stm as much as i **** the guy,stick it up em Beckham

We might never consider the size of the raindrops as we hurry for cover, but their variety has puzzled scientists for many years. Now, by filming one falling raindrop, researchers in France have explained why the drops are an array of so many different sizes...

WBA light-welterweight: Amir Khan v Andreas Kotelnik Venue: MEN Arena, Manchester Date: Saturday 18 July http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/boxing/8148701.stm hoping for a Kotelnik win

Scuba divers off the Californian city of San Diego are being menaced by large numbers of jumbo squid. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8155417.stm

England in command at Lord's Second npower Test Match Lord's - Day Two England 425 (A J Strauss 161, A N Cook 95, B W Hilfenhaus 4-103) v Australia 156-8 (M E K Hussey 51, J M Anderson 4-36) http://www.skysports.com/cricket/match_report/0,19822,11066_15080,00.html anyone else watch England...

One of India's main tiger parks - Panna National Park - has admitted it no longer has any tigers. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/8150382.stm sad

How do you dismantle a nuclear bomb? And how do you verify another country is genuinely disarming without compromising sensitive national security material? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8154029.stm "It is a very choreographed process, almost like a ballet" :eek:

As Apollo 11 sped silently on its way to landing the first men on the Moon, its safe arrival depended on the work of a long-haired maths student fresh out of college and a computer knitted together by a team of "little old ladies". http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8148730.stm

The Cheddar Gorge in Somerset was one of the first sites inhabited by humans when they returned to Britain towards the end of the last Ice Age. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8151524.stm

40 years ago, three human beings - with the help of many thousands of others - left our planet on a successful journey to our Moon, setting foot on another world for the first time. Tomorrow marks the 40th anniversary of the July 16, 1969 launch of Apollo 11, with astronauts Neil A. Armstrong...

The ebb and flow of thousands of pieces of household rubbish are to be tracked using sophisticated mobile tags. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8149183.stm

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