LOS ANGELES - Scientists in China and the United States have sequenced the genomes of two important pumpkin species.
MOSCOW - "I asked her to forgive us and I even cried as I stroked her for the last time," said 90-year-old Russian biologist Adilya Kotovskaya, recalling the day she bid farewell to her charge Laika.
ABIDJAN, Cote d'Ivoire - Like the plot in an old-fashioned movie, cinemas in Africa are making a third-reel comeback after years of worrying decline.
ROCHECHOUART, France - Since early September, the denizens of this normally hushed burg in central France have been serenaded by an industrial drill poking holes around town and pulling up cylinders of rock.
SYDNEY - Australia's world-famous Uluru, formerly known as Ayers Rock, will be closed to climbers from 2019, its management board said on Wednesday, ending a decadeslong campaign by Aborigines to protect their sacred monolith in the Northern Territory.
MIAMI - Baby bats learn language from peers in their colony, and will adopt the group's dialect, or accent, instead of their mother's, researchers said on Tuesday.
HAVANA - The 35th Havana International Trade Fair opened on Monday with 3,400 businesses and exhibitors from 70 countries in Havana's quest to attract foreign investment and diversify its economy.
PARIS - Extreme weather caused about $129 billion in economic losses last year, said a report Tuesday that warned the bill will keep climbing as climate change boosts droughts, storms and floods.
NEW YORK - The fallout facing Kevin Spacey widened on Monday following an accusation that he allegedly made sexual advances toward a teenage boy, with Netflix pulling the plug on his hit show House of Cards and "deeply troubled" producers of the political thriller arriving on set to comfort cast mates.
NEW YORK - The Big Apple has been usurped as the country's premiere gastronomic destination, at least in terms of the Michelin Guide's celebrated three-star ranking.
GARMSAR, Iran - Iranian environmentalists have mobilized to protect the world's last Asiatic cheetahs, estimated to number just 50 and faced with the threats of becoming roadkill, a shortage of prey and farmers' dogs.
JALALABAD, Afghanistan - Extracting pine nuts is providing a lucrative and natural source of income for people living in the eastern regions of Afghanistan.
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