Squirrels in Hyde Park

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 Squirrels are said to be very shy but these in Hyde Park are quite sociable, aren´t they? That´s because they are very used to people who often give them nuts and things like that

Colombian declared world's shortest man

Doctors have never said why Mr Hernandez has grown only 40cm since birth

A 70cm (27-inch) tall Colombian has been named the world's shortest living man by Guinness World Records.

Edward Nino Hernandez, 24, weighs only 10kg (22lbs). His mother said he had not grown since he was two years old. Mr Hernandez, who works part-time as a dancer, told the Associated Press: "I feel happy because I'm unique."

Mr Hernandez is not expected to keep the title for long, however, as Khagendra Thapa Magar of Nepal is expected to take the title when he turns 18 in October.

Mr Hernandez's mother, Noemi, said doctors in the Colombian capital, Bogota, never explained why he had grown only 40cm since birth.

She said doctors at the National University studied him until he was three and then lost interest. Her youngest child, 11-year-old Miguel Angel, is himself only 93cm (37in) tall. Mr Hernandez left school in the eighth grade and now earns some money dancing at department stores. He is also currently playing the role of a drug dealer in a film.

Although he liked the attention, he said there were some drawbacks.

"It bothers me that people are always touching me and picking me up."

Panda twins delight Japanese zoo

So fragile but so cute!

New-born twin giant pandas made their media debut at a zoo in Japan on Friday in Shirahama.

The brother and sister were born on 11 August to proud mother Rauhin and father Eimei.

The zoo said the cubs were doing well, and have quadrupled their birth weight to a healthy 1.5lb (700 grams).

Japan had only nine pandas in captivity until the twins were born.

NYC sky-scrapers* dim lights to help migratory birds

Sometimes Americans seem a lot crazy, but not this time. 

They are really concerned about the migratory birds that cross the Big Apple's sky.

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A growing number of New York sky-scrapers are switching off their lights to help reduce the number of birds hitting the high-rise buildings.

The "lights out" project - organised by NYC Audubon - runs until 1 November, when migratory birds are expected to have completed their autumn migrations.

The Empire State and Chrysler buildings are among those dimming their lights.

An estimated 90,000 birds each year are killed in the city as a result of striking glass-fronted buildings.

Organisers of the annual initiative, now in its fifth year, say the bright lights disorientate the migrating birds and override their natural navigational cues.

NYC Audubon - a group that works to protect wild birds and their habitats within the city - is calling on owners and tenants in high-rise buildings to turn off lights on unoccupied floors or unused space between midnight and dawn.

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A similar project in Toronto, Canada, suggests that "across North America, more birds die from collisions each year than succumbed to the Exxon Valdez oil spill", which claimed the lives of in excess of 250,000 birds.


* Sky-scrapers- arranha-céus