Butterfly swarm shows up on Denver radar system
Image copyright NWS Image caption Birds (left) leave a different radar signature to butterflies A colourful, shimmering spectacle detected by satellites over the US state of Colorado has been identified as swarms of migrating butterflies.Scientists at the National Weather Service
Japanese lottery winners get ‘collectable’ manhole covers
Image copyright NHK Image caption Decorative manhole covers attract the attention of "drainspotters" A city in central Japan recently held a lottery for decorative manhole covers after a sale offer became twenty-times oversubscribed.Maebashi, which is 77 miles (124 km) north
Banning the bomb
Image copyright AFP Image caption The Nobel Peace Pize Committee said the world's nuclear powers must begin "serious negotiations" toward disarmament A Geneva-based group campaigning for the abolition of nuclear weapons has been named as the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize
Leopard that shut down India Suzuki factory is caught
Image caption The leopard caught on the CCTV camera at Maruti Suzuki's Manesar factory Wildlife officials in India have rescued a leopard nearly 36 hours after it was first spotted in a car factory.Rescuers tranquilised the animal after a massive
Elon Musk says he can rebuild Puerto Rico’s power grid with solar
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Mr Musk says his solar storage technology is scalable for Puerto Rico's needs Renewable energy entrepreneur Elon Musk says he could rebuild Puerto Rico's shattered electrical infrastructure with his solar energy technology.The vast majority
Faroe Islands launch live translation service
Image copyright Faroe Islands Translate Image caption Prime Minister Aksel Vilhelmsson Johannesen is one of the service's talking heads The Faroe Islands have started their own online translation service in a bid to have their native Germanic language, Faroese, featured
Anti-nuclear weapons group wins Nobel Prize
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionBerit Reiss-Andersen, the Nobel committee chair, announces the winner. The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (Ican).Berit Reiss-Andersen, the Nobel committee chair, said it
Indian air force helicopter crash kills five
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption File photo of an Mi-17 V5 helicopter, acquired by the Indian air force from Russia An Indian air force helicopter has crashed in the north-eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh, killing five military personnel.A sixth
Catalan police chief in Madrid court in ‘sedition’ probe
Image copyright AFP Image caption Police chief Trapero (second from L) arrives at the Madrid court with Mossos colleagues The Catalan chief of police, Josep Lluis Trapero, is appearing before a judge in Madrid on suspicion of sedition against the
Hong Kong football fans boo China national anthem
Image copyright AFP Image caption Fans held up signs saying "boo" or "Hong Kong is not China" during a world cup qualifier in 2015 A group of Hong Kong football fans have booed their national anthem - which the territory