Fans, friends and family joined together for an emotional farewell to Michael Jackson at a memorial in Los Angeles.
Mariah Carey and Stevie Wonder were among the stars to perform. There was also an emotional tribute from Jackson's daughter, Paris.
A mechanical lion has been brought back to life nearly five centuries after it was first conceived by Leonardo da Vinci.
Emma Jane Kirby has been to the artist's former home in Amboise, France to find out how the lion was reconstructed.
Forest rangers in India have used a crane to help rescue an elephant after it fell into a ditch near a tea estate in Jalpaiguri district, West Bengal.
Game wardens managed to haul the distressed animal out of the ditch before it walked away without injury.
A wildlife safari in Oregon, USA, has come up with an unusual way to raise money in the tough economic climate.
For $20, visitors can have their car washed by the zoo's elephants, who scrub with sponges and rinse with their trunks.
Wildlife Safari Executive Director, Dan Van Slyke, and Elephant Supervisor, Carol Matthews, claim that the elephants don't mind the work, and that the fundraiser has been a hit.
University teams battled it out to become underwater robot champions at an event this week.
It was held at Europe's largest freshwater tank in Gosport, Hampshire - a facility normally used by the Ministry of Defence for ship and submarine trials.
University teams battled it out to become underwater robot champions at an event this week.
It was held at Europe's largest freshwater tank in Gosport, Hampshire - a facility normally used by the Ministry of Defence for ship and submarine trials.
A mechanical lion has been brought back to life nearly five centuries after it was first conceived by Leonardo da Vinci.
Emma Jane Kirby has been to the artist's former home in Amboise, France to find out how the lion was reconstructed.
Millions of Michael Jackson fans will be desperate to watch their idol’s funeral and memorial service that is being held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on Tuesday 7th July and thousands have already received the tickets via the lottery system as mentioned in an earlier post.
But for those fans who didn’t register for the draw, or just can’t be there or the nearby Nokia Center, there are other means of watching the service. According to examiner.com, the King of Pop’s funeral and memorial will be aired on television and some websites are offering live feeds.
But many fans have been warned that there could be major problems with Internet congestion as millions of fans worldwide attempt to watch the service. There is a chance also that there could be bogus sites, so fans are being warned beforehand to search for genuine sites.
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Footage of Michael Jackson in rehearsal for the This Is It tour has been released by the concert promoters AEG Live.
The star looks energetic and in good health, and seems to be enjoying the run-through of hit They Don't Really Care About Us.
Madonna kicked off her revamped Sticky And Sweet tour at London's O2 Arena with a tribute to Michael Jackson.
Jackson, who died last week, was due to perform a series of 50 farewell concerts at the venue.
 The accident happened in the Magic Kingdom of the theme park |
A monorail crash at the Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, has killed an employee of the theme park, officials say.
The accident happened at 0200 local time (0600 GMT) on Sunday, when two monorails reportedly collided in the Magic Kingdom section of the park.
No visitors were seriously injured, local fire department officials told WESH television station.
The monorail service was shut down after the accident.
Mike Griffin, a senior official at Walt Disney World, expressed condolences to the family of the killed employee, the Associated Press reports.
The victim's name was not immediately known.
The hot dog competition is an Independence Day tradition
The world record for competitive hot dog eating has been broken in the US.
Joey "Jaws" Chestnut ate 68 hot dogs in 10 minutes at the annual 4 July contest at Coney Island in New York, shattering his old record of 66.
His main rival, Japan's six-time winner Takeru "Tsunami" Kobayashi, ate 64 and a half. It is thought the two men ate around 19,000 calories between them.
The first such hot dog eating contest was held in 1916, when the winner put away only 13 franks.
The two men have gone gut-to-gut for almost a decade at the annual competition, which has become an Independence Day tradition in the US.
This year's contest was broadcast live on sports channel ESPN, and featured much of the fanfare usually reserved for professional sporting events.
Mr Chestnut, who won his third straight title in a row, takes home $20,000 (£12,250) in prize money and the coveted Mustard Belt.
The 25-year-old Californian is a man of diverse taste, the BBC's Jon Donnison reports from Washington.
His other world records include eating 5kg of macaroni and cheese in seven minutes; and 188 jalapeno peppers in 10 minutes.
Watch a clip of Blur playing Girls & Boys in Hyde Park
Britpop stars Blur have revealed that Hyde Park was the inspiration for their signature song Parklife, during their first reunion gig in the 350-acre park.
"I had the idea for this song in this park," frontman Damon Albarn told fans.
"I used to live near Kensington Church Street, and I used to watch pigeons and people and all that stuff."
The reunited band played a two-hour set, opening with their debut single, She's So High. Phil Daniels joined them on stage to recreate his Parklife role.
Fans were treated to 25 songs, in a show that was almost a track-by-track recreation of their headlining slot at Glastonbury last weekend.
Highlights included This Is A Low, Girls and Boys, Song 2 and End Of A Century.
The only addition to the Glastonbury setlist was 1997 fan favourite Death Of A Party, which came during a six-song encore.
 The band scored 12 top 10 hits between 1991 and 2003 |
Before the final number of the night, sci-fi ballad The Universal, Albarn expressed doubts about Friday night's follow-up gig.
"I honestly don't know how we're going to repeat this tomorrow, thank you for coming," he said.
The four-piece announced in December that they would reform, five years after guitarist Graham Coxon departed during recording sessions for the Think Tank album.
Frontman Albarn, who has spent the intervening years working on projects such as hip-hop collective Gorillaz, fairytale opera Monkey and supergroup The Good, The Bad and The Queen, clearly enjoyed being back with his childhood friends.
He took to the stage grinning from ear to ear, and spent the rest of the evening jogging, po-going and spinning around the stage - only stopping at one point to tie his shoelaces.
"We feel really privileged to be able to do nothing for years, then come back to this," he told the crowd, visibly moved.
"It's incredible, really incredible."
Residents of Chiang Mai in northern Thailand have been flocking to the city's zoo for their first sight of a 6-week old panda cub.
It is the first time a panda has been bred in captivity in Thailand.
Over half a million Thais entered a competition to name the new arrival.
Hundreds of screaming fans gathered at a central London department store to see David Beckham unveil his new range of designer underwear.
Beckham signed autographs for fans at Selfridges during the launch.
The former Spice Girl and wife of fellow Armani underwear model, David Beckham, has posed for photographers in front of a 20-foot banner showcasing the new underwear range.
She talked about living in America and modelling in her underwear.
It is 10 years since David and Victoria Beckham got hitched in a fairytale wedding in Ireland.
Over the last decade, "Posh and Becks" have rarely been out of the media spotlight.
Now ugly dogs, giant shoes, a BBC newsreader trying to be Andy Murray and some amazing toilets.
It's this week's weird and wonderful video stories in Newsbeat's Odd Box with Dominic Byrne.
 Eve Online is about the struggle between giant corporations |
Space trading game Eve Online has suffered a virtual version of the credit crunch.
One of the game's biggest financial institutions lost a significant chunk of its deposits as a huge theft started a run on the bank.
One of the bank's controllers stole about 200bn kredits and swapped them for real world cash of £3,115.
As news of the theft spread, many of the bank's customers rushed to remove their virtual cash.
Space scandal
The theft from EBank took place in early June but only now have details emerged about the amount of money stolen and why it was taken.
The theft was carried out by EBank's chief executive, a player known as Ricdic, now known to be a 27-year-old Australian who works in the technology industry. His full identity has not been revealed save that his first name is Richard.
The stolen kredits amounted to 8% of the 2.6tn that Ebank had in its virtual vaults.
"Basically this character was one of the people who had been running EBank for a while. He took a bunch of (virtual) money out of the bank, and traded it away for real money," Ned Coker, of Icelandic company CCP which runs Eve, told the Reuters news agency.
Eve Online has about 300,000 players all of whom inhabit the same online universe. The game revolves around trade, mining asteroids and the efforts of different player-controlled corporations to take control of swathes of virtual space.
It has now emerged that Ricdic used the cash to put down a deposit on a house and to pay medical bills.
"I'm not proud of it at all, that's why I didn't brag about it," Ricdic told Reuters. "But you know, if I had to do it again, I probably would've chosen the same path based on the same situation."
Ricdic has now been thrown out of the game as trading in-game cash for real money is against Eve Online's terms and conditions.
The rules governing play within Eve would not have sanctioned Ricdic if he had simply stolen the cash and used it in the game, nor if he had bought kredits with real dollars.
The scandal is not the first to play out in Eve Online. In early 2009 one of the game's biggest corporations, called Band of Brothers, was brought down by industrial espionage.
| By Victoria Gill Science reporter, BBC News |
Honeybees mount a very effective mobbing defence
Honeybee hordes use two weapons - heat and carbon dioxide - to kill their natural enemies, giant hornets.
Japanese honeybees form "bee balls" - mobbing and smothering the predators.
This has previously been referred to as "heat-balling", but a study has now shown that carbon dioxide also plays a role in its lethal effectiveness.
In the journal Naturwissenschaften, the scientists describe how hornets are killed within 10 minutes when they are trapped inside a ball of bees.
Japanese giant hornets, which can be up to 5cm long, are voracious predators that can devastate bees' nests and consume their larvae.
But, if the bees spot their attacker in time, they mount a powerful defence in the form of a bee ball. This study found that the heat inside the bee ball alone was not enough to reliably kill the hornets.
 Giant hornets were taped to temperature and gas probes |
"They can survive for 10 minutes at a temperature up to 47C, and the temperature inside the bee balls does not rise higher than 46C," said Fumio Sakamoto, a researcher from Kyoto Gakuen University in Japan, and one of the authors of the study.
His team recreated experimental bee balls and took direct measurements from inside them.
They anaesthetised giant hornets and fixed them to the tip either of a thermometer probe, or the inlet of a gas detector.
Once the hornets recovered from their anaesthesia, the probes were touched to the bees' nest.
"The bee ball formed (around the hornet) immediately," said Dr Sakamoto.
After 10 minutes the bees were packed solidly enough around the probe to be removed from the nest in a distinct ball.
As the temperature inside the ball increased to more than 45C, the carbon dioxide level also rose sharply.
In a parallel experiment, the scientists found that in an atmosphere relatively high in carbon dioxide, the temperature at which hornets could survive for 10 minutes was lowered.
"So we concluded that carbon dioxide produced inside the bee ball by the honeybees is a major factor, together with temperature, involved in the bees' defence."
 The bee ball formed as a bump on the bottom of the nest |
Dr Sakamoto is not sure, at this point, whether the bees were effectively "gassing" the hornets, or simply depriving them of oxygen.
"Either way, the carbon dioxide increase and/or the oxygen decrease lowered the temperature that was lethal to the hornets, " he told BBC News.
"We are going to do the additional experiments about this point using mixed air of various oxygen and carbon dioxide (concentrations)."
The mob of bees also appeared to operate in "two phases".
"The hornet may be killed during the first 0-5 minute period, in which the highest level of heat production and carbon dioxide emissions take place," said Dr Sakamoto.
This might suggest that the bees are aware of what physiological state the hornet is in.
Dr Sakamoto said: "The latter 5-10 min period may be free running to ensure their victim's death."
Dinosaur discovery "a major breakthrough"
Australian palaeontologists say they have discovered three new dinosaur species after examining fossils dug up in Queensland.
Writing in the journal PLoS One, they describe one of the creatures as a fearsome predator with three large slashing claws on each hand.
The other two were herbivores: one a tall giraffe-like creature, the other of stocky build like a hippopotamus.
The fossils date back nearly 100 million years.
They were found in rocks known as the Winton Formation.
The dinosaurs have been named after characters in Australia's famous song Waltzing Matilda.
The carnivore, which has the scientific classification Australovenator wintonensis, has therefore been dubbed "Banjo" after Banjo Patterson, who composed the song in Winton in 1885.
Queensland Museum palaeontologist Scott Hucknell said the creature would have been a terrifying prospect.
"The cheetah of his time, Banjo was light and agile. He could run down most prey with ease over open ground," he told reporters.
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The two plant-eating, four-legged sauropod species are new types of titanosaurs - the largest animals ever to walk the Earth.
"Clancy" (scientific name: Witonotitan wattsi) was a tall slender animal, while Matilda (Diamantinasaurus matildae) was more stocky and hippo-like.
Banjo and Matilda - possibly predator and his prey - were found buried together in a 98-million-year-old billabong, or stagnant pond.
The findings have been published in the public access journal Public Library of Science One (PLoS One), and were announced by Queensland Premier Anna Bligh at the Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum of Natural History in Winton.
She said the discoveries were a major breakthrough in the scientific understanding of prehistoric life in Australia.
Museum Victoria palaeontologist John Long described the fossils as "amazing".
The Sydney Morning Herald newspaper quoted him as saying that the creatures put Australia back on the international map of big dinosaur discoveries for the first time since 1981, when the unearthing of Muttaburrasaurus, a large four-legged herbivore that could rear up on two legs, was announced.
The new species will be part of the Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum of Natural History under construction in Winton. It should be completed in 2015.
