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Riots Rage in Greece After Cop Shoots Boy

The shooting of a fifteen year old Alexandros Grigoropoulos by a police officer in Athens sparked off violent riots by outraged masses in Greece. Read on ...

A Glider at the Railway Station

A railway station has all kinds of visitors passing through it. Sarnath, near Varanasi, had a rather special one, reports the PTI. Read on ...

Rags-to-Riches: The Café Route

What makes a best-selling writer? Does it pay to follow, say, J.K. Rowling’s writing methods? A new European best-seller and a first-time author’s success story. Read on ...

A safety net for cheetahs, vultures & dolphins

The cheetah, the Egyptian vulture, and some varieties of dolphins are all endangered species. This is what a UN conference on conservation found out. Read on ...

Gunning for Clouds

The Olympic Games will kick off at Beijing's open air stadium in August 2008, in the rainy season. But the government has promised clear skies. Clouds beware! Read on ...

Potatoes get you into the pink of health

Word's just in: potatoes are good for you. A team of Spanish researchers say that eating potatoes could have a beneficial effect on the body's immune system. Read on ...

No one quite knew how the Indian parakeet landed in London. But people were happy to see this colourful bird in their parks. Now they are being told that the rising number of parakeets poses a danger to local birds… Read on ...

Guns Everywhere

It was the worst day in the life of any American college campus. A student went on a shooting spree at Virginia Tech in the US, killing 31 people. In the US today, buying a gun is as easy as buying milk. There is one gun killing every 17 minutes. One child or teen is killed by a gun every three hours. People who have been demanding strict gun control laws in the US say the time for it has come. Leading them is a group of mothers, called the Million Mom March campaign. Read on ...

Black swan falls in love with pedal boat

A Black Swan imported into Germany from Australia seems to have found her partner for life. There's one problem. Her partner is a pedal boat shaped like a giant white swan. Read on ...

An invasion of toxic toads

Australians are up in arms against the poisonous cane toads that are killing local animals, from the dingo and snake to the croc. They are wondering if they should call the army out... Read on ...