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Some local zoos have begun providing information about their animals via smartphones in an attempt to attract visitors. Kyoto City Zoo in the city of Kyoto has released a free iPhone application in August containing information and quizzes about its animals. The application provides a map of the zoo as well as the location of […]

Girl, 4, can see for the first time thanks to miracle stem cell operation A little girl who has been blind since birth has seen her mother and father for the first time – at the age of four. Izabelle Evans can now see up to three feet in front of her after groundbreaking stem […]

Beluki the Asian Rhino stands proudy with her newly born baby Miracle after keepers at Whipsnade Zoo in Bedfordshire hand-reared the calf to save her life. Miracle was a breech birth, emerging bottom first, leaving her traumatised and unable to suckle properly. Zoo staff, fearing for her life, camped out in sleeping bags in the […]

AN INDONESIAN artist is selling tourist souvenirs of ash from the country’s most volatile volcano to raise money for victims of its eruptions. The English-language daily The Jakarta Globe reported on Monday that Agus Budi Setiawan is selling volcano souvenirs – small clear bottles containing volcanic ash – for US$1 (S$1.30) per bottle. The bottles […]

A GROUP of Poles have decided to make the most of winter, building a 9.5m snowman dubbed Milocinek, who wears a barrel for a hat and a road safety cone for his nose. A Polish newspaper says several people laboured for six days on their creation, which stands eye-level with surrounding two-story homes. The website […]

IT’S a Saturday morning and a half-dozen adults are sitting in a high school classroom, staring at grim photos of sickly drug addicts and hearing about the deadly consequences of gang crime. They’d rather not be here, but a judge made them come. The mums and dads were ordered to attend the class under a […]

RUSSIAN President Dmitry Medvedev sang Elton John’s praise after a concert in Moscow on Sunday, writing on Twitter how impressed he was with the British pop icon’s show, RIA Novosti agency reported. ‘I was at Elton John’s concert. Very serious work, of very high quality – almost three hours of live music,’ wrote the president, […]

HUNDREDS of people dressed as Santa Claus have descended on London, startling commuters and tourists with a tide of seasonal cheer. Red-suited Santas poured through busy Liverpool Street railway station Saturday before walking across the city to Trafalgar Square. Others converged on the central square from the west and south. People posted photos on Twitter […]

Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio will put his fame to work to raise global awareness about India’s dwindling number of tigers, an official says. DiCaprio and India’s Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh met at a reception Friday in New York organised by the Coalition of Rainforest Nations, an inter-governmental organisation. “The actor met the minister and has […]

MONA Ramouni was taking notes with a Braille device when her guide pony Cali joined the class discussion with a sudden snort. ‘What do you think Cali?’ professor Shelley Smithson said with a laugh, and then steered the conversation back to theories of counselling and psychotherapy. Cali is just one of a handful of miniature […]