The paintings are not only priceless, but they have been among the star attractions at New York's Museum of Modern Art and the city's equally renowned Guggenheim Museum for more than four decades.

A generation of young Britons is being criminalised for life by the relentless expansion of the national DNA database, ministers are warned today.

If the number of whales keeps increasing at the present rate, we will have fish shortages in the near future. It is too arrogant to insist that Americans can eat beef but that Japanese shouldn't eat whales.

Statistics from the State Forestry Administration (SFA) and China Wildlife Conservation Association (CWCA) also show that a total of 172,471 wildlife cases, in which about 1.5 million wild animals were confiscated, were recorded in the first ten months

Toxic chemicals in the water in the Punjab, India's grain belt, could be causing genetic mutations in the population, a recent study suggests.

NEW DELHI: Eight thousand miles from New York, barefoot, shirtless, whip-thin men rippled with muscle were forging prosaic pieces of the urban jigsaw puzzle: manhole covers.

"Whales have always been part of our history and identity. Many of our ancestral canoes or waka that travelled from Polynesia to New Zealand had whales or guardians that travelled with our ancestral waka," says Arapata Hakiwai, acting Kaihautu at Te Papa

The birth of a boy in Machrihwa is celebrated with the purchase of sweetmeats, distributed with joy to fellow villagers. The birth of a girl is, for the most part, not celebrated at all.

Emma Soames, Editor of 'Saga' magazine, was one of the first to recognise how the changing lifestyles and mighty purchasing power of the 'evergreen' generation would reconfigure society

The town of Lopburi in Thailand celebrated its annual Monkey Festival over the weekend, laying out a lavish banquet for the more than 2,000 macaques that roam freely through it.