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It is still not known if some species will ever recover, even after decades of protection. The statistics say it all. The blue whales of the Antarctic are at less than 1 percent of their original abundance, despite 40 years of complete protection. Some populations of whales are recovering but some are not. Only one population, the East Pacific grey whale, is thought to...

[ad#half-banner] From left, three views of a fragment of one of the Dead Sea Scrolls: a plain digital image, a color scan and an infrared scan. JERUSALEM — In a crowded laboratory painted in gray and cooled like a cave, half a dozen specialists embarked this week on a historic undertaking: digitally photographing every one of the thousands of fragments of the Dead Sea...

A ‘vulnerable’ man cut off his own head with a chainsaw after being ordered to move out of his home to make way for developers, police believe. David Phyall’s severed head was found beside the power tool inside his housing association flat shortly after receiving his eviction notice. Detectives were today investigating the possibility that the 58-year-old killed...

Gasp, horror! Banksy isn’t a fictional character. His cover has been blown. He’s an actual person who makes art. Worse than that, according to the Mail on Sunday, he went to public school. He’s middle class! He lived in suburbia! What did people expect? That just because he started with graffiti and grew into street art that he was some council estate...

In the four-missile version of the image released Wednesday by Sepah News, the media arm of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, two major sections (encircled in red) appear to closely replicate other sections (encircled in orange). Hits: 22

When Roger Kusch helped Bettina Schardt kill herself at home on Saturday, the grim, carefully choreographed ritual was like that in many cases of assisted suicide, with one exception. Hits: 47

THE remains of a woman have been found sitting in front of her TV – 42 years after she was reported missing. Hedviga Golik, who was born in 1924, had apparently made herself a cup of tea before sitting in her favourite armchair in front of her black and white television. Croatian police said she was last seen by neighbours in 1966, when she would have been 42 years...