At exactly 9.17am on Thursday, May 8th, 2008, nineteen mountaineers from China made history by lighting the Olympic Torch at the peak of Mt. Everest - the highest mountain in the World....

No we are not talking about the Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream flavor, but a serious issue facing officials at the Omaha Park in Osaka, Japan. Thanks to the incessant (constant) feeding of junk food by tourists, monkeys residing here have become obese....

Sunday, May 11, 2008 is Mother's Day; when mothers in most parts of the world are appreciated for all they do for their families. One Chinese Company is taking the celebrations to a new level, by printing what is believed to be the biggest photograph in the World - of a mother of course!...

In most parts of the world a $2 billion U.S. Dollar house would be built in the middle of a sprawling estate, surrounded by lush greenery. At the very least it would at least have a decent playground!. However in Mumbai, India, a country where land is scarce, it means a 27-floor skyscraper, situated right in the middle of a busy downtown area....

Chinese officials opened the 22-mile long Hzanghou Bay Bridge amidst much celebration and fanfare yesterday. Touted as the largest sea bridge in the world it connects Jiaing City near Shanghai to the port city of Ningbo in the eastern province of Zhejiang....

Imagine cruising along the coast of Africa, in a ship laden with gold coins, copper ingots (nuggets) and elephant tusks and armed with cannons to fight off enemies. This, is the picture emerging from the artifacts in a 500-year old shipwreck found off the coast of Namibia, South Africa....

Who would have thought that someone would pay $960 U.S. Dollars for poop? Granted this is no ordinary poop - it's 130 million years old and came from a dinosaur living in the Jurassic Era....

This cool looking gizmo that looks like a unicycle is a prototype (sample) of a motorbike with two wheels - the two wheels are situated side-by-side instead of back-to-back. Invented by 18-year old Ben Gulak, the Uno is not only cool but also green - Its engine is powered by an electric motor....

The fact that 19-year old Alia Sabur became the youngest University professor ever and broke a 300-year old record, probably came as no surprise to anyone who knows her! This amazing young woman has been setting records since she was an infant....

Pierre, a 25-year-old penguin that resides at the California Academy of Sciences in California, had a big problem. In late 2006, he started to lose his waterproof feathers, especially around his head and tail....

They came dressed as princes and princesses, rockstars and cheerleaders. Some even painted their paw nails and wore bikini tops and grass skirts! However, in the end it all came down to plain old good looks. Buddy, a three-year old bulldog who came completetly unadorned, stole the show and was crowned "Most Beautiful Bulldog"....

Miley Cyrus a.k.a Hannah Montana is too young to drive or vote. She is however, not too young to write a book. Yesterday morning the 15-year old announced that she had signed a deal with the Disney Book Group to write her "memoirs"....

While the best athletes always make newspaper headlines, we rarely hear about the worst. Robert Dee of Britain falls in the latter category. He was recently dubbed - "The worst-ever professional tennis player in the World" - a title bestowed on him after he won his first match....

Every autumn, billions of small birds make their way from the continent of Europe all the way to Africa. As soon as spring arrives these birds re-trace their epic journey back to Europe to breed. The journey which involves crossing the Sahara Desert, the Mediterranean and even the English Channel is amazing given how small some of these birds are and considered one of nature's miracles....

What was once science fiction, is now becoming a reality! Two blind patients were implanted with bionic eyes at Moorfields Hospital in London last week. They are among the 15 people worldwide who are part of a trial to test out the technique. If successful, the procedure will be available to other blind people....

This ordinary-looking Spruce found in Sweden is the world's oldest tree. Scientists believe that it started growing just after end of the last ice age, more than 9.500 years ago. Prior to this scientists had believed that the oldest tree was between 4,000 to 5,000 years old....

If these scientists are right, there will be marigolds growing on the moon by the year 2015, and after there may even be cabbages, tulips and other plants. The best part is they think it can be done without bringing nutrients and soil from Earth....

R.L. Stine, author of the famous "Goosebumps" series was a pioneer of sorts - prior to him, authors had thought young kids (7-12) would be too scared to read horror stories. However, they were wrong - The "Goosebumps" series sold over 300 million copies, making R.L. Stine one of the most successful children's authors in history....

The inaugural World Photography Awards competition sponsored by Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. is currently underway. The competition whose to aim is recognize the world's best photographers, both amateurs and professionals, attracted entries from over 25,000 amateurs and over 44,000 professionals....

Brazil's newest soccer team is known as the "Gigantes do Norte", which means "Giants of the North". Yet the average height of the 18-person team is no more than 4ft, with the shortest at 3ft 3inches and the tallest at 4ft 7 inches. Meet the world's first all dwarf-only soccer team....

Ah to wake up to the sound of chirping birds - the low soft "chook" and the frequent "pink pink pink of the Blackbird, the cooing of the Pigeons, or even better - the loud "hweet" of the Nightingale. All these sounds evoke visions of a faraway tropical paradise Island don't they?...

One month old Lali is already a very special child. Born with two faces, she has four sets of eyes, two noses and two mouths. In scientific terms her condition is called "craniofacial duplication". However, in rural India where she was born, she is a miracle - the reincarnation (re-birth) of a Hindu Goddess known as Durga....

Will the heat from the sun vaporize the earth in the 7.6 billion years? That is the dire prediction of two Astronomers from the Univesity of Sussex - unless we do something about it....

Eleven-year old Kevin Stufflebeam, a fifth grader from Allegan, Michigan sure knows his historical facts. In fact, he knows them so well that he recently corrected an 18-year old mistake at the Smithsonian Institutional's Museum of Natural History in Washington....