Spanish folding hand fans are everywhere thanks to summer heat waves
MADRID (AP) — In crowded subway cars and sun-drenched plazas, an old-fashioned accessory in Spain has been everywhere…
Count Binface brings comedy to British politics in special election
LONDON (AP) — Timing is everything in comedy and, so it seems, in British politics for a perennial…
Brazilian capybaras enter chambers of local legislature
CUIABA, Brazil (AP) — One Brazilian state legislature has increasingly found its voting sessions invaded by a group…
Pigeons may be navigating with their liver, study suggests
NEW YORK — A surprising gut feeling may help pigeons find their way home. Animals use various techniques…
Rescuers try to save stranded whale Timmy with the help of air cushions
BERLIN (AP) — Rescuers in Germany began an elaborate operation Thursday to save a sick humpback whale that…
300-million-year-old sea creature loses title as world’s oldest octopus
LONDON (AP) — A 300-million-year-old tentacled sea creature has lost its crown as the world’s oldest octopus, after…
Meet the Galapagos seabird that wandered 3,000 miles to California
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Scientists on a research vessel off the central California coast spotted a waved albatross,…
Video shows flames flying from NASA plane that touched down without landing gear
A NASA research plane malfunctioned and had to touch down in Texas without landing gear on Tuesday, sliding…
Spaniards celebrate animals with church blessings and bonfire jumping
SAN BARTOLOME DE PINARES, Spain (AP) — Hundreds of Spaniards watched horses gallop through towering flames, hours before…
Huge black bear evicted from crawl space under Los Angeles home
A huge black bear that made its den in the crawl space under a Los Angeles area man’s…