Offbeat

Two female students, Ajyad Al-Jawad and her colleague Yomna Nasrallah from Al-Bassam Private Schools (Girls) in Dammam, have invented an automatic animal feeding device.

LOS ANGELES: The ratings are down. Randy Jackson is out. Mariah Carey and Nicki Minaj are still at it.

British entrepreneur Richard Branson, wearing an AirAsia flight attendant’s uniform, drops a tray of drinks onto AirAsia’s Chief Executive Tony Fernandes during an AirAsia promotional event on a f

TOULOUSE: The number of bears roaming the Pyrenees remained stable at a minimum of 22 last year, thanks largely to the continued virility of Pyros, the undisputed daddy of the colony.

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