Absinthe: Madness in a Bottle
MOTIER, Switzerland, March 21 (Reuters) - Absinthe, the drink banned almost a century ago as "madness in a...
Stop the Canadian Harp Seal Hunt
"Off Canada's east coast, harp seals are giving birth to their offspring. But their future may be short-lived,...
Tiger Bites Back
It's rare to escape a tiger attack unscathed. But a hidden camera set up in the Indonesian jungle...
Fear and Lactation in Las Vegas
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of chloroplast, five sheets of high-powered blotter granum, a saltshaker...
Sartre’s Fags Stolen
"Hell is other people who don't smoke" France's National Library has airbrushed Jean-Paul Sartre's trademark cigarette out of...
36 times the legal limit!
AIR emissions from a Shannon-based plant contained 36 times the legal limit of a suspected cancer-causing substance, a...
Bin Laden wanted to kidnap Russell Crowe. He can have’m!
No, it's not from The Onion. Apparently Kiwi actor Russell Crowe was given FBI protection after an al-Qa'ida...
Deep-sea volcano expedition
A 120-day research trip to a string of submarine volcanoes will test two UH mini-subs. The longest, most-challenging...
Stop pulping the Sámi reindeer forests!
The Sámi reindeer forests of northern Lapland are being pulped by the Finnish State controlled paper giant, StoraEnso....
‘Cursing Stone’ saved by council
A granite artwork blamed for bringing misfortunes of "biblical proportions" to a city has been saved. (Brought to...