Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy (right) and German Chancellor Angela Merkel walk the last part of the Way of Saint James close to...
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy (right) and German Chancellor Angela Merkel walk the last part of the Way of Saint James close to...
PARIS: Honeybees probably originated in Asia, not Africa, said scientists yesterday who had teased interesting tidbits from the busy little pollinators’ genome that...
Participants throw coloured powder during the Colour Run in Stockholm yesterday. It is a five-kilometre race without winners, where participants are showered with...
An aerial view of the Nepalese national flag, formed by over 35,000 people, at the Tudikhel open ground in central Kathmandu yesterday. KATHMANDU:...
Josh Sheehan of Australia performs during the finals of the fifth stage of the Red Bull X-Fighters World Tour in Pretoria, South Africa,...
Panda cub Bao Bao in her habitat on her first birthday, at the National Zoo in Washington DC. WASHINGTON: A panda bear cub...
QUITO: “Pepe the Missionary,” a giant tortoise who rose to fame as one of the most photographed animals on Ecuador’s Galapagos Islands, has...
WASHINGTON: A SpaceX rocket exploded in mid-air during a test flight on Friday as the company seeks to develop a spacecraft that can...
Two headless marble sphinxes guarding the entrance of a massive ancient tomb in the town of Amphipolis in northeast Greece. AMPHIPOLIS, Greece: To...
A Chinese vendor waits for customers at a game booth, which has Tweety Bird as a prize, near a beach in the coastal...
Ashraf Mashharawi, a film director from Gaza, speaks during an interview yesterday. SARAJEVO: Two Gaza directors won an award at Sarajevo’s film festival,...
New York: The US Copyright Office has confirmed that a monkey — or any other animal — that takes a selfie does not...
A giant inflatable rubber duck installation by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman floats through the Port of Los Angeles as part of the Tall...
Former US president George W Bush takes the “Ice Bucket Challenge” which aims to raise money and awareness for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)...
TOKYO: Sakari Momoi, a 111-year-old Japanese citizen, was officially recognised in Tokyo as the oldest man in the world by the Guinness World...
PARIS: Eight hundred metres (2,600 feet) under the Antarctic ice, in the pitch dark, a vibrant community of rock-munching microbes are thriving in...
LONDON: The last time she took to the stage, the prototype of the mobile phone was undergoing its first trials. And as she...
Eleven-year-old Renzo somersaults at a traffic junction in the San Borja district in Lima. Renzo and his nine-year-old brother Gianpierre perform on streets...
