ZAGREB AFP — The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu has been detected in several seagulls in the south of Croatia, where several swans have already died of the disease. "We have carried out tests on 30 or more seagulls and several samples have come back positive for the...
HUNGRY seagulls are finding it so hard to get food from rubbish bins that they've started pecking on people. One council says the security of wheelie bins is the reason bird attacks have hit an all-time high. In Aberdeen they have struck 49 people...
PARIS AFP — Killer whales which set traps to catch seagulls have become the third known animal species to possess "cultural learning" -- a skill which is transmitted to other members of their group. The gull-trapping trick was initiated by a four-year-old orca in a tank at Marineland at...
In the past 40 years, ornithologists have reported a dramatic upswing in selected populations of herring and ring-billed gulls, particularly around the Great Lakes region. Why are these seagulls flourishing when so many other bird species are struggling? Garbage! That's right, trash. Refuse. These graceful silver-and-white birds...
OAKLAND _ It wasn't long after Andre Davis streaked past a stumbling Stanford Routt and hauled in a 28-yard touchdown pass from Sage Rosenfels that the seagulls began to circle like buzzards above McAfee Coliseum. Oakland had climbed within 17-10 early in the fourth quarter Sunday with the...
The 1980s was a fun decade. It was filled with Day-Glo fashions and quirky hairstyles. It saw the first Live Aid and Farm Aid concerts and, of course, the birth of MTV. Then there was the music. Within the keyboard-pop realm of new wave, the bands...
MARSEILLE, France AFP — A dead hedgehog which was at the origin of an airport mishap involving an Air France passenger plane nearly seven years ago has ended up costing the French government more than three million euros four million dollars in a court ruling. On March 22, 1998,...
Sometimes I liken Everett to Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon. From a distance, Everett appears a quiet town made of brick, thick trees, wheeling seagulls and the smell of the sea. The men are strong, the women capable, and everyone keeps to themselve Sometimes I liken Everett...
Like a flock of seagulls fighting over the last breadcrumb, a host of American cities have begun to battle it out in the contest for a rare basketballing prize - an NBA franchise. On offer is the Vancouver Grizzlies, a team which has become so financially unviable...
The gulf in property prices between North and South may be growing every day, but when it comes to doing a place up, our two nations are as thick as thieves. Just look at the motorways: money and labour sloshing up and down like there's no tomorrow. After every long...
Since the early 1960s, scientists have observed some shocking mutations in wildlife - hermaphroditic seagulls with both male and female sex organs, eagles with crossed beaks, panthers born with undescended testicles, alligators with shriveled penises (see Currents, January/February 1996), and fish gonads which aren't distinctly male or female. In many...
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 25 -- When the estate agent says stylish living in the Kent countryside with a spectacular view over blue water, you could be forgiven for expecting a thatched cottage overlooking the English Channel, with nothing but the cry of...
Another good deal, an all-Navy crew flying an Air Force 737 (T-43). The Air Force skipper gave us the keys to take the jet to Millington, Tennessee, so some of us could get orders, do a records review, and get some BBQ. We flew down, and after the detailer visit...
The austere granite faades of several Victorian terraced houses in Aberdeen's West End seem an unlikely home for one of the UK's fastest-growing fund management groups. But Aberdeen Asset Management, which has increased the assets it manages from #2.8 billion in 1996 to more than #15 billion today, has its...
Remember 1989? Pepsi pulled Madonna's "Like a Prayer" commercial that year because--surprise, surprise--people found it offensive. There was Meg Ryan's scream scene at a Katz' Deli in "When Harry Met Sally." Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles surpassed Flock of Seagulls in celebrity status. And then there was Richard Marx. While teens...
NEW YORK -- Together for the first time live and in concert on one stage, 80's Pop icons, Human League, Belinda Carlisle, ABC, Dead or Alive (thru Aug 11), A Flock of Seagulls (beginning August 13) and Naked Eyes will be featured in this summer's hit filled inaugural version of...
LONDON AFP — An animal protection group is investigating claims made by British band The Falls Mark E. Smith that he killed two endangered red squirrels and condones the deliberate running over of seagulls, it said Thursday. The revered but unpredictable frontman of Manchester band The Fall said that...
Mar 12, 2003 (The Weekly Times - ABIX via COMTEX) A Victorian market gardener is at odds with the owners of an adjacent toxic waste dump. Leo Kelly, the head of Kelly Bros Market Gardeners, says the Lyndhurst toxic dump, operated by SITA Environmental ...
HELSINKI AFP — Finland's first suspected case of bird flu, found in gulls in the northwest of the country last week, has turned out to be without risks for humans, the Finnish agriculture ministry said. The findings alleviate fears that Europe had been struck by a strain of the...
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