Month: October 2005
Amazon Drought
The Amazonian rainforest is being destroyed at double the rate of all previous estimates, according to research published...
Finding the Black Helicopters
A few weeks back, The Register ran a competition to 'find the black helicopters, using Google Earth. And...
Bavarian Beavers Causing Legal Problems
An attempt to reintroduce beavers into England 500 years after they were hunted to extinction is facing a...
Troops (or SWAT?) break up rave in Utah. Pretty amazing footage…
"No one resisted. That's for sure. They had police dogs raiding the crowd of people and I saw...
Old menus reveal collapse of fish stocks
Fisheries experts are using old restaurant menus to piece together how the world's seafood stocks have declined over...
7-foot Dane is World’s Tallest Dog
Sorry, I mean great dane. A 3-year-old Great Dane in Sacramento, Calif., has been named the world's tallest...
Tanzania’s witch-doctors cast spells for votes
BAGAMOYO, Tanzania (Reuters) - The witch-doctors in the former slave port of Bagamoyo on Tanzania's coast are busy...
What every little revolutionary needs.
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, whom critics accuse of trying to introduce communism in Venezuela, has been modeled into...
Mass deforestation driven by China’s timber trade…
...there is another side to China's exploding, double-digit-growth miracle economy - it is turning into one of the...
David Copperfield Plans Immaculate Conception
Stage magician David Copperfield says he plans to impregnate a girl on stage - without even touching her....