A toxic drug that threatens India's critically endangered vultures is still widely available, a survey has found.

Alien earthworms can alter the carbon and nitrogen cycles in woodland, as well as undermine native plant species, a study suggests.

Archaeologists in Austria say they have discovered a large, well-preserved school for Roman gladiators.

Cars and buses are taken off the streets of Bolivia in the country's first-ever "National Day of the Pedestrian".

A new well-capping device, aimed at combating a major oil and gas offshore incident, it set to be unveiled at Offshore Europe in Aberdeen.

Scientists confirm that a flowering plant in South Africa entices birds to pollinate it by giving them a place to perch.

A giant saltwater crocodile weighing more than a tonne is captured in the Philippines - maybe the biggest specimen ever captured, officials say.

Tiny filaments growing from the surface of bacteria could help to improve the efficiency of uranium removal from contaminated waters.