While people in China will not start celebrating the "Year of the Rat" until February 8th, the Japanese have started with - yes you guessed it ........A Rat Race!...

Thousands of dog lovers gathered at a fashion show in Tokyo, Japan this weekend, to watch designers strut their latest collection for..........yes dogs. Dogs of different breeds paraded on a real runway, wearing demi-couture (kind of like designer, just a little cheaper) and avant-garde (really modern) collections designed especially for this event....

Jeb Corliss is a man on a mission - he wants to fly like a bird and land like one too - that is without a parachute. Why? - because no one has ever done it before and he believes he can....

Ken Nedimyer has spent more than 30 years swimming among acres of beautiful coral off the Florida Keys in the US. However, over the years he has noticed the coral dwindling and in some cases disappearing all together....

It was every kids dream come true - a humongous 30 miles long bubble bath to frolic in! - This is exactly what happened on a coastline in New South Wales earlier this month. What was once the Pacific Ocean, turned into waves of foam, engulfing the entire beach and half the buildings nearby....

Last week Las Vegas, Nevada was home to one of the world's biggest and coolest trade shows - The annual Consumer Electronics (CES) show, where companies introduce all sorts of fun electronic toys and gadgets....

The Monte Carlo International Circus Festival is the most prestigious circus events in the world. Every year, the best circus acts from around the globe compete against each other to try win a Gold, Silver or Bronze Clown Award. Held annually in mid-January, the festival was started in 1974, by Prince Rainier III, the ruler of Monaco....

Meet Bindi Irwin - At the tender age of nine, she has her own show on the Discovery Kids Channel, a fitness video, been a presenter at the Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards and even given a speech on wildlife conservation in Washington!...

10-year old Diego Martinez, felt like most of you did this past week! - He did not want to go back to school after the Christmas break. Instead of coming up with the usual excuses of headache or tummy ache, he decided to do something more creative.....................

No your eyes are not deceiving you! Those are four little piglets "disguised" as tigers, sleeping soundly on their mama a 6-year old Bengal tiger, called Sai Mai. Apparently, this is not the first time Sai Mai has raised piglets - she has been doing it since she was two-years old....

A car that will drive, accelerate and brake at the right time, change lanes to avoid traffic and be able to park; all without a driver! This is the car of the future! And General Motors, America's biggest car company hopes to be the first one to bring it to you....

The big storm system that hit California and Nevada on Friday, not only caused the normal headaches of power outages and road flooding, but was also responsible for the breaking of a levee wall in the small desert town of Fernley, Nevada....

In case you are like most of us and couldn't get tickets to the "Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus - Best of both Worlds Concert", here is your chance to view a 3-D movie version in theatres....

Much like the TV show "Lost", eleven Russian fishermen were shipwrecked (in the show it's an air crash) in a remote region in Russia. The fishermen spent three months here before finally being rescued on January 5th....

7-year old Aniket Chindak already holds the record of skating under 57 cars no more than 8 inches above the ground, in 45 seconds. Now this resident of Belgaum in Western India, wants to break his own record by skating under 100 cars in record time....

One of Chile's most active volcanos erupted on January 2nd scaring a lot of people who live in the area. The Llama volcano in Chile's Conguillo National Park, sent a plume (cloud) of smoke nearly 12,500 meters into the air after erupting on Tuesday evening....

This greedy python in Brisbane, Australia mistook four golf balls for eggs and quickly devoured them. The golf balls had been left in the chicken coop by the owners to try encourage the hens to lay more eggs....

It takes hours of travel across sandy dunes and rocky terrain to get to one of the world's most remote music festivals. However, this doesn't seem to deter fans of Mali's "Festival of the Desert", who make the pilgrimage annually in mid-January....

Welcome to 2008! We wish all our DOGONews readers the very best in 2008. Let's kick back with a glass of sparkling Apple Cider and enjoy the spectacular shows from all across the Globe....

Mark Zilvitis and his father Brian were skiing down a double black diamond slope at The Canyons Ski Resort in Park City, Utah when an avalanche hit them. Both father and son got buried in the deep snow. While Brian was able to pull himself out, there was no sign of Mark....

While most of us sit back and relax after a big Christmas meal, residents of Peru like to work it off with a friendly fist fight. The traditional festival known as Takanakuy or 'fighter' starts with dancing and a religious procession....

A Tokyo Zoo received an extra special Christmas gift this year - the birth of a Malay Tapir, an endangered animal, found usually in Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand....

Meet Alain Robert, the real Spiderman. Like the other superhero, Alain likes to climb tall structures. However, he doesn't need to cast a web in order to climb - he does it with his bare hands....

Ever wonder how a movie like "Transformers" is made? Check out this fascinating video and hear the filmmakers talk about how the film "transformed" from the computer screen to the big screen....