Canada marine protection plan aims to serve as global model
Viewed from above, Canada's newest Marine Protected Area (MPA) is deceptively simple: stretches of blue Pacific Ocean waters and a few patches of green forest.
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Lab-grown frogs: a Colombian's response to wildlife trafficking
Down a dirt track in Colombia, deep in a forest, conservationists are breeding prized exotic frogs to try to undercut traffickers who are plundering the country's jungles of its amphibians.
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Hissed off: San Juan cat removal plan prompts outcry, lawsuit
Plans to remove stray cats from a historic site in Puerto Rico's capital San Juan have hit a snag, after animal rights groups cried foul.
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TV channels in Afghan province stop showing living things
At least two TV channels in a northern Afghan province stopped showing images of living beings during their broadcasts, journalists told AFP on Tuesday, in line with orders from morality police.
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Infighting and inflation ahead of Iraqi Kurdistan vote
Iraqi Kurdish seamstress Sanaa will, like many other voters, boycott an election later this month, a signal of growing disillusionment with the political class that has long dominated the autonomous region.
Read moreStylish Colombia put four past Chile, Sanabria double for Paraguay
Colombia turned on the style as they took another big step towards qualification for the 2026 World Cup with a 4-0 win over Chile in Barranquilla on Tuesday.
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'Nowhere is safe': Lebanon Christian villiage reels from Israel strike
Elie Alwan sheltered a displaced Shiite family from southern Lebanon in his peaceful Christian-majority village, believing they would be safe -- instead an Israeli air strike killed them, destroyed his home and injured his mother.
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Portrait by humanoid robot to sell at auction in art world first
The robot artist Ai-Da, a humanoid powered by artificial intelligence, will be the first of its kind to have a painting sold at a major auction house, organisers said Wednesday.
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Mexico touts foreign investments as IMF warns about reforms
Seeking to calm investor jitters over controversial judicial reforms, Mexico's new president said Tuesday that four foreign companies would invest around $20 billion in the Latin American nation next year.
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'Ainadamar' brings death and dance to the Met Opera
The life and death of Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca, whom Fascist forces assassinated during the Spanish Civil War, is the subject of an opera making its Met Opera debut in New York Tuesday.
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