A new scientific documentary by the Forestry Bureau reveals the unusual behavior of the Oriental Honey Buzzard, a rare large bird of prey that rips open wasps' nests, battling with the stinging insects just to taste the sweet pupae.

An Italian inventor has combined faith and ingenuity to come up with a way to keep church traditions alive for the faithful without the fear of contracting swine flu — an electronic holy water dispenser.

A giant iceberg twice the length of Beijing's “Bird's Nest” Stadium has been spotted floating off Australia and could be headed for New Zealand, scientists said on Thursday.

Low-lying and impoverished Asian coastal cities such as Dhaka, Manila and Jakarta are vulnerable to “brutal” damage from climate change without global action, environmental group WWF warned Thursday.

It was just a routine car wash. Except there was no car - and no clothing. Four Australian men who allegedly undressed and soaped up at a car wash have been charged with exposure and public nuisance.

“They call me the hardware store,” says Requelme Abanto from his hospital bed in northern Peru. Doctors in the city of Cajamarca said they removed 1.5 pounds of metal from Abanto's stomach, including nails, coins, and rusted copper wire and scrap metal.

Nearly 200 million children in poor countries have stunted growth because of insufficient nutrition, according to a new report published by UNICEF before a three-day international summit on the problem of world hunger.

Is there life on other planets? The Vatican has asked that age-old question over the past five days during a “study week” on astrobiology gathering leading scientists from around the world.

Americans are spending more time watching television, as well as playing on computers and chatting on social networking sites.

Global warming has been blamed for the alarming loss of ice shelves in Antarctica, but a new study says newly-exposed areas of sea are now soaking up some of the carbon gas that causes the problem.