The large illuminated billboard in Times Square in New York is getting a makeover. The sign, which advertises Ricoh products, will be rebuilt and powered by wind and solar.

We collect memories well into adulthood, but at some point, we start to lose them. How to tell the difference between memory lapse and signs of a disorder.

A three-kilometre thick cloud of brown soot and other pollutants hanging over Asia is darkening cities, killing thousands and damaging crops but may be holding off the worst effects of global warming, the UN said on Thursday. The vast plume of contaminati

The 460,000-year-old skull of a woolly rhino, reconstructed from 53 fragments, is the oldest example of these mighty, ice age beasts ever found in Europe. The extinct mammals reached a length of three-and-a-half metres in adulthood and, unlike their .....

Canada's annual commercial seal hunt is a cruel and unethical practice that produces a product nobody needs. 98 percent of the animals killed in the past two years have been baby seals between 2 weeks to 3 months old. And despite the potentially devastat

Animal 'actors' may have agents, but what about advocates? Tragically, some terrible abuses have happened while filming movies and TV shows. Even worse, they happened simply for the sake of creating realistic scenes in movies. American Humane

A giant Saudi oil tanker seized by pirates in the Indian Ocean is nearing the coast of Somalia, the US Navy says. The Sirius Star is the biggest tanker ever to be hijacked, with a cargo of 2m barrels - a quarter of Saudi Arabia's daily output - worth more

More than one tonne of ivory products has been seized in Africa's largest-ever international crackdown on wildlife crime. The operation, co-ordinated by Interpol and the Kenya Wildlife Service, led to the arrest of 57 illegal traders across five African

The Japanese whaling ship Nisshin Maru has reportedly left harbour for the annual hunt in Antarctic waters. Greenpeace said the factory ship had left the port of Innoshima, near Hiroshima, without fanfare.

Israel has briefly reopened a border crossing with the Gaza Strip to allow in a convoy of humanitarian aid. The Israeli army said 33 trucks had entered Gaza. The UN refugee agency confirmed an aid delivery, but said fewer trucks had been let in.