Washington, June 11 : The World Bank has announced a global joint venture to help reverse the decline in wild tigers — the first-ever species initiative by the Bank.

According to a report in ENN (Environmental News Network), the Bank has asked the ITC member organizations, representing some of the world’s foremost tiger scientists, conservation groups, animal welfare advocates, traditional Chinese medicine specialists, and zoos, to provide expertise and strategic guidance to the initiative.

During the next six months, the Bank promises to hold open and frank dialogues with all stakeholders in tiger range countries—governments and non-governmental organizations—about which tiger conservation methods have worked in the past and which have not.

Washington, June 11 : A new sociological study has challenged the popular perception of a so-called "opting out revolution," by showing that professional women's employment rates have constantly pu

Washington, June 11 : A pair of artist-designer sisters has created art quality lighting fixtures from recycled plastic bottles, household plastic containers and recycled scrap metal.

Reta and Vana Howell say that each of the fixtures they have created contains 30 to 55 plastic water bottles, depending on size and shape.

They have revealed that they harden the plastic materials using call the THIS’s secret fusion process so as to give it the appearance of glass.

According to them, except for the electrical parts of the fixtures, each of them has a life expectancy of 700 years.

Each lamp come with a 13 watt CFL bulb, and has a cord for hard wiring.

Reta and Vana recycle every part of the plastic bottles used in their designs, reports the Environmental News Network.

Washington, June 11 : A new research has shown that people with tune deafness, an auditory processing disorder in which a person with normal hearing has trouble distinguishing notes in a melody, may actually be able to recognize an incorrect note unconsciously.

The researchers at the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), part of the National Institutes of Health, say that this study may help scientists use the tools of genetic research for a better understanding of the differences between conscious and unconscious thought.

Washington, June 11: An archaeologist at the University of Manchester says that the Greater Stonehenge Cursus may have been there since about 3,500 years BC, making the structure 500 years older than the circle itself.

Professor Julian Thomas and his colleagues could pinpoint the age of the ancient monument after finding an antler pick used to dig the Cursus, which they say is the most significant find since English antiquarian William Stukeley discovered it in 1723.

He says that upon performing carbon dating on the pick, the results pointed to an age that was much older than previously thought, between 3600 and 3300 BC.

London - US President George W Bush expressed regret Wednesday over the use of aggressive language over Iraq and said he should have used a "different rhetoric."

In an interview published in the Times newspaper, Bush said his stance over Iraq had made the world believe that he was a "guy really anxious for war."

His use of phrases such as "bring them on" and "dead or alive" had indicated to people that "I was, you know, not a man of peace," Bush said.

But the truth was that he found it "very painful to put youngsters in harm's way" and that he had an obligation to make sure that those lives were not lost in vain.

Bush said he was concerned that policies by Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama might open divisions in Western attitudes towards Iran's nuclear ambitions.