They may look like perm-sporting rock stars or even perfectly coiffured poodles - but this collection of specially-trimmed wildlife are actually all chickens. Pictured here is a bearded splash pullet Silkie.

The little-known Belgian federalist and the Labour peer who has never held elected office were selected at a meeting in Brussels. EU leaders chose the Belgian prime minister as the first President of the European Council. Britain's European Trade Comm

After eight years of war and huge expenditures of national treasure, is the United States really serious about succeeding in Afghanistan and Pakistan? Or, given the seemingly intractable nature of these conflicts and the exquisite difficulties of coping

NASA reported that a 23 foot wide asteroid came within about 8,700 miles of entering Earth's atmosphere on Friday. This was the third closest miss on record. Astronomers at the University of Arizona's Catalina Sky Survey group announced the finding.

Resembling a swirling witch's cauldron of glowing vapors, the black hole-powered core of the Circinus Galaxy lies 13 million light-years away from our own. This galaxy, designated a type 2 Seyfert, is a class of mostly spiral galaxies that have compact

Orchids have been around for as long as dinosaurs, but the puzzle of their evolution is only now being fully understood. To the layman's eye, flowers might not seem especially inexplicable. But what puzzled Darwin was the way in which, after appearing

More than 50 experts in conservation have met to discuss the future of the three Pacific islands of the Juan Fernandez archipelago, 414 miles off the coast of Chile. Some of the plants that grow there can be found no where else in the world, but they

Sometimes likened to UFOs, lenticular clouds are usually created by gravity waves. Bright colours (or irisation) are sometimes seen along the edge of lenticular clouds...

It is with a heavy heart that I write yet another obituary for a wolf that was part of our lives for 7 years. 527 was one of nine wolves that have been shot in a backcountry wolf hunt district in Montana just north of Yellowstone National Park. She was on

California experienced centuries-long droughts in the past 20,000 years that coincided with the thawing of ice caps in the Arctic, according to a new study by UC Davis doctoral student Jessica Oster and geology professor Isabel Montañez. The finding,