ZANESVILLE, Ohio (Reuters) - Dozens of exotic animals including tigers, lions and bears were let loose on Ohio farmland by their owner before he committed suicide, sparking a shoot-to-kill hunt in which 49 of the wild beasts, including 18...
AP – October 20, 2011 HONOLULU (AP) — A University of Hawaii astronomer has captured the first direct image of a planet forming around a star. The Institute for Astronomy says Adam Kraus&n...
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By Edwin Chan and Supantha Mukherjee | Reuters – October 13, 2011 Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California October 4, 2011. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith ****** (...
Rough weather has jostled a cargo ship stuck off New Zealand's coast and worsened its oil leak fivefold to make it the country's worst-ever maritime environmental disaster, the government said on Oct. 11 (AP) 1. A New Zealand Defenc...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — \\\\\\\\"The Good Wife\\\\\\\\" star Julianna Margulies is the winner of the Emmy Award for best actress in a drama series, while Kyle Chandler won the male lead actoraward. Margulies, who navigates politics, law and family...
AP – Thu, Sep 15, 2011 This image provided by NASA shows an artist's depiction showing a discovery by NASA's Kepler mission of a world where two suns set over the horizon instead of just one. The planet, called Kepler-16b, ...
It's a real-life Tatooine. A spectacle made popular by the \\\\\\\\"Star Wars\\\\\\\\" saga — a planet with two suns — has now been confirmed in space for the first time, astronomers revealed. Scientists using NASA's Kepler space teles...
A rare Sand Cat has been born in Israel. The species used to be common in Israel, but is now extinct in the region. Renana, a 3-week-old sand cat, peers from a cave in the Ramat Gan Safari near Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesd...
Prereading question: Google would like to share the cake in network service. What advantages and disadvantages does it have? 29 June 2011 Last updated at 01:50 GMT Online search giant Google has lau...
Is there something stuck on your teeth? Oh no, that’s just a tattoo(文身) of Prince William and Kate Middleton. One man has officially won The Windsor Knot’s royal wedding mania(狂热病) title by willingly paying £1,000 to ...
Around 3,000 people marched through central Tokyo, a large demonstration by Japanese standards(按日本的标准). The demonstration was organized by eight civic(市民的，民间的) groups to protest the Hamaoka nuclear-power plant(核电站), which is loc...
1. Marry an ugly man. Because if he ever leaves you, at least you won't feel bad since, you know, he's ugly. -- Lorraine Ontong Venturina 2. Unfortunately, it was advice that I didn't listen to. In 1986, as he was walking me down the a...
These aerial photos show locations in Japan before and after the 8.9-magnitude earthquake and tsunami that struck on Friday, March 11. ...
'Little Big Planet 2' is where exactly where 2D platformers should be. The story levels are fun, the new gadgets useful, and the new tools for building your own personal levels are better than ever. ...
Nintendo's forthcoming 3DS game machine will not only play games in 3-D, it will also be able to stream movies and TV shows from Netflix. During a keynote speech(重要讲话) that marked the opening of the Game Developers Conference, Nintendo ...
Wednesday brings a new iPad, this we know. And we know that, from 20 paces, it will probably look like the current iPad — Apple's own event invitation indicates as much. As for the details of the reveal, here's what else we think will h...
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand — Rescuers(搜救人员) used their bare hands, dogs, and heavy machines Wednesday in an urgent search for survivors still trapped(被困住) in crumbled(崩塌的) buildings more than 24 hours after an earthquake devast...
‘She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses,’ cried the young student, ‘but in all my garden there is no red rose.’ From her nest in the holm-oak(圣栎) tree the nightingale(夜莺) heard him, and she looked o...
Grand opening Spectators watch fireworks explode over ice sculptures(雕塑) at the official opening of the Harbin International Ice and Snow festival in the northern Chinese city of Harbin, in the Heilongjiang province, on Jan. 5. Who g...