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Photo: a bird's-eye-view of bungee jumper in Queenstown, New Zealand

Russian modern art gets younger, less politicized

Roll over Einstein: Pillar of physics challenged. Subatomic particles seem to move faster than speed of light

Photo: dragonfly lands on stalk of wheat during sunset on the Canadian prairies

New Zealand's premier naked rugby team beaten by Spanish women's team

"Once in a lifetime event" -- Check out the supernova in the Big Dipper constellation!

TIME article: Why Some Languages Sound So Fast

Israel Museum returns art to Jewish artist Max Liebermann's heirs

Photo: the India-Pakistan border, taken by the International Space Station

Seemingly drunk Swedish moose found stuck in tree

Photo: Maori Warrior Toa Waaka issues the ‘Wero’ during the Rugby World Cup in New Zealand

Wildlife photographer captures amazingly intimate portraits of pride of lions

Searing words: Nepal's prize-winning poet with cerebral palsy, Jhamak Kumari Ghimire

Scientists in US warn NASA the amount of space junk orbiting Earth is at tipping point

Quake risk to reactors greater than thought

Airplane vapor trail mimics tornado descending from sky in front of dazzling Saudia Arabian sunset

Found: Roman port where soldiers launched invasion of Wales 2,000 years ago

Is this the coolest watch ever made? The 1923 Packard even has a star map!

Travel article: Getting to know Argentina's huge glaciers in Los Glaciares National Park

Australian journalists sacked over 'fake' footage

Photo: Mo, the goggle-wearing convertible-riding dog from Germany

Photo: a lion-tailed macaque cub with mother, at the Zoo in Berlin

Children sexually abused on Pakistan's streets; more than 170,000 children live on the streets

Syrian gunmen break artist Ali Farzat's hands as 'warning'

Wild world: Millions of unseen species fill Earth

Next issue of Luciole will include tribute to Scott Wannberg; you can submit poems, photos, memories, anything

Sad to announce, Luciole's dear mighty contributing poet and friend Scott Wannberg has passed

Luciole Press contributing artist Pär Strömberg has a new interview to read!

Check out Luciole's fab contributing author Martyn Clayton's new facebook page

Sent in by Scott Evans, a 2 for 1 deal for Blue Moon Literary & Art Review issues

Incredible images of the Milky Way, home to over 200 billion stars and 50 billion planets

London overtakes New York as top fashion capital

Bare-breast protest by Femen group at Ukraine trial

Is the tide turning for Twitter and Facebook? One in four young people 'bored' with social media

Jaguar candid camera! (by Conservation International Suriname)

Kiwis marvel at Auckland and Wellington snow

World Bank: Global food prices near 3-year highs, piling pressure on world's poor

August 19th -- 1st National Indigenous Music Awards in Darwin, Australia

Interesting article: "One-child policy a surprising boon for China's girls"

Quake-hit Christchurch, New Zealand unveils low-rise city plans dominated by parkland

'Remains' of St Edburga (620 BCE) discovered under apartment block

Giorgio Armani pays haute-couture homage to Japan

Vitamin D may improve pancreas function

Folk singer Facundo Cabral killed in Guatemala

Appeal launched to help millions left starving after East Africa's worst drought in decades

American painter Cy Twombly has died. Known for his abstract works using repetitive lines, scribbles, references to ancient empires

Vatican opens archives for unprecedented exhibit

Photo: a white-faced monkey peers out from its cage in the Animal Rescue Center at the Nicaraguan National Zoo

Lost penguin swims 4,000 miles to Peka Peka beach in NZ; critically ill after 2nd surgery to remove sand from stomach

Mirage of entire unknown city appears over Chinese river

Call to ban wild animals from British circuses

Incredible image captures thunderstorm passing in front of last week's lunar eclipse on the Greek island of Ikaria

Aerial view of the Glastonbury Festival. Luciole's Ellyn Maybe will perform Sunday!

University of Sydney's Picasso sells at auction for $22M

Northern Irish police warn Belfast riots may cause fatalities

Congrats to Luciole's wonderful poet goddess Ellyn Maybe! She and her band leave for Glastonbury today!

Fantastic art event in Wellington, New Zealand this Friday! Check out the Matariki Seven Sisters 2011 Art Exhibition

Humans May Have 'Magnetic' Sixth Sense

Photo: volcanic ash erupts from the Puyehue-Cordon Caulle volcano in Chile

UN backs gay rights for first time ever

Chile volcano ash circles globe, returns home

Jewish court sentences dog to death by stoning, suspecting it to be reincarnated lawyer

Volcano ash turns Asian lunar eclipse blood red

TIME article: Scientists Discover Mother Monkeys Who Kill Their Babies

Irish writer Colum McCann wins IMPAC Dublin prize

Photo: a diver feeds a cute whale shark at the Hakkeijima Sea Paradise aquarium

Strong quakes again rock New Zealand

Satellite image of Earth shows ash plume from Chile's volcanic eruption

Australia: Cat curfew is purrfect remedy for wildlife attacks

Photo: a baby bottle nose dolphin swims close to his mother at the Hakkeijima Sea Paradise aquarium in Tokyo

Photo: Lightning strikes Turning Torso building in Malmo, Sweden

Gold rush another blight to ailing Amazon jungle

Guam mulls going its own way

Amazing photo: a cloud of ash billows from Puyehue volcano in southern Chile

Thunderstorms on Earth Hurl Antimatter Into Space

New Zealand mourns death of Shrek the famously shaggy sheep

Japanese retirees ready to risk Fukushima front line

Ephemeral Antimatter Trapped for Amazingly Long 16 Minutes

Ever seen a Siberian tiger jump off a waterfall?

Progress in fight against cancer of ovaries, breasts

Ancient Assyrian dictionary finished — after 90 years

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Archaeology: Beneath Jerusalem, an underground city takes shape

Poor Harald the Sturgeon, wired with a transmitter, has died -- highlighting "threat to ancient fish"

Photo: Zombie Lemur! Well, not really, but it is a funny picture

Midwives on motorbikes offer sex education in Cambodia

Shuttle Endeavour gone forever from space station

Is There a Social Media Tech Bubble? (For example, Facebook has just been valued at 100 billion dollars)

What galaxies look like when they collide: new "train wreck" atlas

Cheetah captured while roaming Abu Dhabi

Aussie student Amelia Fraser-McKelvie finds universe's 'missing mass'

Egypt permanently opens Gaza border crossing

Explosive energy: Black hole jets in "Centaurus A" captured in all their glory

Sweet photos from England's biggest penguin pool at the London Zoo

TIME article -- Egypt: Convergence of Civilizations

Article: Tormented British sailor reveals how Germans tried to surrender before Bismarck was destroyed, costing 2,000 lives

Egypt's lost pyramids: Spied from space by satellite, 17 tombs buried by sands of time

Redshift Survey: Scientists unveil most complete map so far of the universe, extending 380 million light years away

Iran's largest lake turning to salt

Global photo competition yields incredible images, such as the Milky Way above Australia and Iran