Surgeons have carried out the world's first liver transplant from a pig into a human recipient. The operation, carried out in China, used a liver from a pig that had been genetically modified to ...

Only one of roughly 400 parrot species can't fly—the kakapo. It's not due to injury or laziness. These birds evolved on predator-free islands and never needed wings for escape.

A charity has urged people not to use their sites as a "dumping ground" after about 2,500 DVDs were left at the back of one of its bases. Cornwall Hospice Care said the DVDs, some of which it said ...

When Orrawan Khansamree and her husband decided to visit Shanghai this month, the couple wanted to see one place above all - and it was not any of the city’s historic landmarks. “We’re ...