A critically endangered turtle that previously was thought to be extinct in the wild has been discovered in northern Vietnam. Experts confirmed that they have identified the only known living specimen of a Swinhoe's soft-shell turtle (Rafetus swinhoei) i

Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: They're coming to drink your blood ... and sometimes it's for your own good. Get the facts about vampire bats, leeches, bedbugs and other bloodsuckers.

The report, that the South African writer, Henrietta Rose-Innes has won this year's £10,000 Caine prize, for the best short story in English by an African writer, in the society pages of The New Times, a daily news-paper, was indeed good news.

Veteran journalist RAMPHOLO MOLEFHE takes a long hard look at journalism in Botswana. In his frank diagnosis he indentifies a number of ailments that assail the press.

WASHINGTON.- The expressive possibilities of moving image and sound have inspired many Asian artists to examine the relationship between past and present through the video medium.