Top Ten Animal Stories of 2006 From National Geographic News
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Troves of new species, a dolphin showing some "leg," India's first new bird in 50 years&#8212;and a warning that seafood will be gone by 2048. It's been an up-and-down year for animal lovers.
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A list of 15,000 species threatened with extinction - many of them by human activity - is published.
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All the news as it happens from the 2006 BBC Sports Personality of the Year awards.
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A cat cloned to replace a dead pet for a Texas woman stirs ethical debate. Also: Scientists discover monster cockroach and mini crab in Indonesia.... EU caves in on stronger fishing limits.... and more.
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Of all the many images that appear in Wired magazine, here are 10 that stand out as the photo editors look back at year's end.
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While some 150,000 people were killed by last month's tsunami, few animals seem to have been caught off guard. Do animals have a sixth sense about such danger?
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Newsnkife has put together a list of the online news sites which made it to the featured story source in their respected category within Google News. ABC News, New York Times and Reuters topped the list.   1. ABC News       2. New York Times       3. [...]
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By RICHARD PYLE NEW YORK - In the nine months since escaping her travel cage at Kennedy Airport, Vivi the wayward whippet has joined the Central Park coyote, high-rise tiger, Harlem Meer caiman and Molly the fugitive feline in New York's ever-growing pantheon of urban animal legends.
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Scientists analysing 25 years of data find some 80% of animals have extended the northern edge of their ranges.
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The blue whale, possibly the largest animal ever to live on Earth, is making a comeback, scientists say.
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Keith Axline, the photo editor for Wired News, presents his pics for Wired's top 10 galleries of the year.
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See a roundup of the week's news and events, from a dictator's demise to a meteor's blaze of glory to a tiger "trapped" by a remote camera.
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The BBC's Sue Nelson investigates claims that wild animals, who escaped the impact of the quake, may have a sixth sense.
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Planet Earth captures a pride of lions stalking an elephant in Botswana. Learn what went into creating this killer scene. By Sonia Zjawinski from Wired magazine.
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Breaking news in recent years has been swamped with stories of extreme weather -- flash floods in East Asia, prolonged drought in Africa, destructive hurricanes like Hurricane Katrina, heavy monsoon rainfall in South Asia, and an historic heat wave in Europe.
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Take a look at the top stories this week.
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After spending a day with the old keyword page, and getting bored with it, I came up with a new way to look at news, something I've not tried before, that might be fun and/or useful http://nytimesriver.com/keywords.html  Since it's likely to change again soon, here's a screen shot. How it works. Every hour, as usual, it does the nytimesriver scan. Every story is linked to in the database undern all the keywords it references. Then the report, in HTML, is prepared, with the keywords in the left column, and links to all the stories in the right colum. The list is sorted by number of references, the keywords with the most references appear at the top of the list.  So today, baseball is the top item, with 15 references. The teams, the Cleveland Indians and Colorado Rockies, rank high. For some reason (heh) the Boston Red Sox don't appear, even though they're still in it, and the Yankees, even though they've been eliminated (yay!) are near the top at position 10.  It's another leaderboard! (Oh shit.) The stories age, and are removed after 24 hours. After all this is news, not olds.  If you have comments, post them under the screen shot, linked above. PS: Note that since the list just started up today, the initial stories, even though some are already 24 hours old, will remain in the queue until tomorrow morning at this time. So the list will be artificially fat today, it'll thin down tomorrow.