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.
A 51-year-old Ohio man has embraced the Valentine’s Day spirit faster than anyone before, giving 7,777 hugs in 24 hours for a new world record.
In Nepal, where illiteracy is widespread, an elderly man with over 12 grandchildren has gained fame for his efforts to get an education.
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.
Africa - a continent of beautiful teeth yet few commercially manufactured toothbrushes!
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.
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.
'Public Enemies' star Johnny Depp doesn't want his two children to follow in his footsteps and pursue a career in Hollywood.
John Galliano went west to Hollywood in a retro flash Spring 2010 collection of great individual pieces, where his romanticism and wit were very much to the fore. 
Michael Jackson's new single "This Is It" began streaming online and playing across the radio airwaves Monday, nearly four months after the "king of pop" died of a prescription drug overdose aged 50.
Details of the Irish singer's death remain unclear, but it is believed he died on Saturday (10Oct09) in Majorca, Spain, where he was on vacation.
