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Vandals have damaged a 115-million-year-old dinosaur footprint imprinted in rock near the southern Australian city of Melbourne, local media reported Wednesday.Park rangers discovered someone had chipped the edge of the 30-centimetre high footprint

A series of recent cyber attacks has netted North Korean hackers millions of dollars in virtual currencies like bitcoin, with more attacks expected as international sanctions drive the country to seek new sources of cash, researchers say.North Korea

BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts man convicted of leading an Islamic State group-inspired plot to behead a conservative blogger is scheduled to be sentenced.Prosecutors will ask the judge on Tuesday in Boston to sentence 28-year-old David Wright

A baby panda made a special appearance Monday before Tokyo’s governor, a group of local schoolchildren and the media one day ahead of its official public debut.Xiang Xiang, a 6-month-old female giant panda, will debut Tuesday in a limited

An ingredient in cannabis called cannabidiol or CBD has shown promise in a clinical trial as a potential new treatment for psychosis, scientists said on Friday.In research involving 88 people with psychosis – a mental disorder characterised by

Homosexuals in Africa receive little tolerance at best and are actively persecuted at worst, but a landmark ruling by a Botswana court has recognised a transgender woman as officially female, Reuters reports.Tshepo Ricki Kgositau, the executive

A Thai dog has become the first dog in the world to be given hi-tech prosthetic legs with blades made from same materials used by Paralympic runners, an animal welfare charity told dpa on Tuesday.Cola, a two-year-old mixed-breed Thai dog, was fitted

The Archbishop of Cape Town, Thabo Makgoba, said that ANC branch representatives have "the opportunity of a lifetime" at their forthcoming conference, to put all factional, partisan interests aside and to follow their consciences and to be

The blast that injured a suspected bomber Monday morning inside a New York City subway corridor for commuters was a “terror-related incident,” Commissioner James O’Neill of the New Yor Police Department said.O’Neill