At a time when water levels of reservoirs elsewhere in the Punjab in India were low because of delayed monsoon rains, the water at the Bhakra Dam on the Sutlej River reached almost double the previous year’s level.
The snows of Kilimanjaro may soon be gone. The African mountain’s white peak — made famous by writer Ernest Hemingway — is rapidly melting, researchers report.
In Nepal, where illiteracy is widespread, an elderly man with over 12 grandchildren has gained fame for his efforts to get an education.
British film An Education is battling major Hollywood movies Avatar and The Hurt Locker with eight nominations each at the British Academy Film Awards.
A deluge of foreign words is flooding Japan, leaving particularly the older Japanese confused about their native tongue, reports The Japan Times.
Some have theorized that an infinite number of monkeys pecking away on an infinite number of typewriters would eventually write the complete works of Shakespeare.
On January 13, 2002, a storm swept through the mountains of Mexico where monarch butterflies winter in pine and fir trees.
Natalie Portman is set to slay the undead in a movie adaptation of best-seller Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, it is reported.
A song by US teen star Miley Cyrus that had been nominated for a Grammy award has now been ruled ineligible.
Talent show star Susan Boyle has held on to the top of the US album chart for a second week after selling a further 527,000 copies of her debut album.
Africa - a continent of beautiful teeth yet few commercially manufactured toothbrushes!
The doors are due to shut at the UK's last large scale piano manufacturer after nearly 100 years of production. 
Kate Winslet is among the British nominees at this year's European Film Awards (EFAs), to be presented in the German city of Bochum next month.
The world's biggest Mona Lisa has been unveiled just as the secret of her enigmatic smile was revealed for the first time.
Voice disorders are a common but under treated problem," says South Africa's Natal Witness newspaper.
Australia's koalas could be extinct in 30 years, conservationists warned, calling for the iconic creatures to be declared an endangered species.
Two of three parachutes malfunctioned in the test flight of a prototype moon rocket earlier this week, causing major damage to the booster, NASA said Friday.
A pioneering solar energy project is using green technology to improve the lives of isolated villagers living beyond the reach of power lines on Argentina's windswept Andean plains.
After much speculation, rock supergroup Them Crooked Vultures has announced Nov. 17 as the release date for its debut album.
Johnny Rotten has finally gone mainstream. The Sex Pistols are taking legal action against an Ice-cream maker for using what they consider to be their copyright artwork.
This is much more of a Wes Anderson film than the Roald Dahl classic on which it's based. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but it could cause problems with fans of the book. The central themes are still there, but this is essentially a quirky dysfunctional family romp.