Women hail 'brave' Jolie's mastectomy revelation
Health activists, doctors and movie fans hailed glamorous Hollywood megastar Angelina Jolie on Tuesday for her decision to reveal that she had had her breasts removed to reduce her cancer risk.
15 May 2013
Oxford University sets up Thatcher scholarship
Britain's famous Oxford University is to honour former prime minister Margaret Thatcher, who died last month, with a £100 million ($153 million, 118 million euros) scholarship trust for "future leaders".
Panic grips Saudis as toll rises from SARS-like virus
Panic has gripped Saudis in the country's east, where most cases of the deadly coronavirus have been detected, witnesses said, as the death toll from the SARS-like virus in the kingdom hits 15.
14 May 2013
DR Congo province in push to save child soldiers
Desperate to save children from being used as soldiers in Congo, residents of the notorious "Triangle of Death" launched the first wide-scale campaign to end the practice in the remote and volatile region.
14 May 2013
Google shows Aral Sea dry-out
Google has presented its Timelapse project that shows changes in various parts of the world over the past 28 years.
Warming to hit half of plants, a third of animals More than half of common species of plants and a third of animal species are likely to see their living space halved by 2080 on current trends of carbon emissions.
13 May 2013
Gene clues for testicular cancer, heart defect Separate studies of the human genome have found tantalising clues to the inherited causes of testicular cancer and non-inherited causes of congenital heart disease.
13 May 2013
Slippery eel slides towards disaster Cupping a tiny, translucent eel in the palm of his hand, New York environmental researcher Chris Bowser shook his head in amazement.
12 May 2013
Bangladesh miracle survivor 'doing great': doctor Bangladeshi doctors treating a "miracle" survivor pulled from ruins of a collapsed building after 17 days said Saturday she was doing "great" and had been reunited with her family.
11 May 2013
S. Korea to release dolphin back into wild A 13-year-old dolphin was Saturday being transported to an ocean pen off a South Korean island for training to prepare it for release back into the wild after four years in a Seoul zoo.
Historic greenhouse gas level sparks calls for action The level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has surpassed 400 parts per million for the first time in human history, US monitors announced Friday, sparking new calls for action to scale back greenhouse gases.
11 May 2013
Family album of last tsar surfaces in Russian museum Held a virtual prisoner by the Bolsheviks months before his execution, Russia's last tsar Nicholas II pasted informal snapshots of his family into an album which has now come to light in a Russian provincial museum.
11 May 2013
Search off for Australian couple who fell from cruise shipAustralian officials Friday called off a massive air and sea search for a couple who fell overboard during a cruise, as the cruise ship company involved said safety was its first priority.