Archive for January, 2010

Demonstrators gather outside branches of Boots in Scotland and England to swallow entire bottles of homeopathy tablets.

California names the Apollo 11 landing site on the Moon as a state historical resource.

Egypt will play Ghana in the Africa Cup of Nations final after cruising to a 4-0 semi-final win against an Algeria side reduced to eight men.

Scientists reveal that the bristles of a small, 125 million-year-old dinosaur were in fact ginger-coloured feathers.

Monkeys keep their chatter short and sweet, scientists reports.

The US census kicks off in a remote Alaskan village, as census director Robert Groves goes about his business by dog sled.

The Black Eyed Peas are the victims of a blunder at France’s top music awards, where they are wrongly named best international group.

A rare “divorce” between a pair of swans is recorded at a Gloucestershire wildfowl sanctuary, experts say.

A US military contractor says it will stop engraving Biblical references on rifle gunsights used by the US army, as well as the UK, Australia and New Zealand.

Ten of the pioneering snowflake crystal photos made by US farmer Wilson A Bentley are to be sold in New York.