Category: Culture / Leisure
11/03/2010, by Adam Walder / AFP
This photo received from Taronga Zoo on March 11 shows a newborn male Asian elephant calf in the zoo's elephant barn. The calf born on March 10 has continued to make progress, with the zoo's senior veterinarian saying the calf is slowly getting stronger and is now walking around independently and has suckled from his mother, "Porntip."
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10/03/2010, by Adam Walder / AFP
A young couple is silhouetted by the light from the full moon. Men are more than twice as likely as women to be sexually active in old age but good health is the key for both to feeling naughty, says a study published Wednesday by the British Medical Journal.
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10/03/2010, by Adam Walder / AFP
File photo of a young male elephant calf born at Sydney's Taronga Zoo last year. A baby elephant believed to have died during labour was born alive at an Australian zoo on Wednesday, amazing its keepers and defying expert opinion that such an outcome would take a "miracle".
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09/03/2010, by Adam Walder / AFP
A man surfs the web at an internet cafe. More than three-quarters of people across the world believe access to the Internet is a fundamental right, a poll carried out for the BBC indicated Monday.
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09/03/2010, by Adam Walder / AFP
Placido Domingo is seen at the GRAMMY Awards held at Staples Center on January 2010 in Los Angeles, California. Domingo has had surgery to remove a malignant cancer tumor in his colon, but expects to perform again as early as next month, a spokeswoman said Monday.
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09/03/2010, by Adam Walder / AFP
A visitors walks past an artwork entitled 'Nana Verte A Sac Noir' by French artist Niki de Saint Phalle in London in 2008. An art collection put together by British American Tobacco, that includes artist Niki de Saint-Phalle, over the last 50 years to liven up its factories and "inspire" workers, will be auctioned in Amsterdam on Monday, Sotheby's said.
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08/03/2010, by Adam Walder / AFP
Film-maker Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman ever to win the Oscar for best director.
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08/03/2010, by Adam Walder / AFP
A man visits an exhibition showcasing the original manuscript of Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity at the Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Jerusalem. In a darkened room in Jerusalem, the world has been given a rare glimpse into the mind which unlocked the secrets of the universe.
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05/03/2010, by Adam Walder / AFP
Terrorists, crooks and nation states are ramping up cyberassaults that are eating away at data, cash and security in the US, according to the head of the FBI, Robert Mueller (pictured in February).
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05/03/2010, by Adam Walder / AFP
British supermodel Naomi Campbell, pictured in 2009, on Thursday declared an end to her war with a limousine driver who had accused her of beating him over the head.
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