Offbeat

LONDON: London Zoo has launched a hunt to find a female mate for a “gorgeously ugly” fish threatened by extinction.

In a parking lot near the East River in Manhattan, Adriana Alltari gathers her courage, lifts her feet off the ground and wobbles away on New York’s latest mode of public transport: a bicycle

LOS ANGELES: Former world heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson will star as a cartoon detective, with a pigeon as a sidekick, in a new animated series, US cable network Adult Swim said on Friday.

New York: A fake Manhattan soothsayer pleaded guilty to using her powers to persuade a client to fork over more than $ 650,000.

NEW YORK: Mongolia may need to rustle up some more glass cases for its first dinosaur museum after US authorities announced Friday they will hand back a large new collection of stolen fossils.

Held a virtual prisoner by the Bolsheviks months before his execution, Russia’s last tsar Nicholas II pasted informal snapshots of his family into an album which has now come to light in a Russian p

As night begins to give way to dawn, 40 high-performance cars pull up on an empty Hong Kong backstreet. While the city sleeps, their revving engines fill the air with a heavy smell of petrol.

EPECUEN, Argentina: A strange ghost town that spent a quarter century under water is coming up for air again in the Argentine farmlands southwest of Buenos Aires.

NO longer is speed, performance and thrills enjoyed on the racetrack exclusively for the pros.

RENAULT has announced the launch of MY RENAULT — WWW.MYRENAULT-ME.COM — a first of its kind digital platform in automotive industry in the region created for exclusive personalized serv