Costa Rican Invertebrates

The US says it will impose import tariffs of about 30% on Chinese solar companies, saying China is flooding it with subsidised products.

Scotland is falling behind other parts of the world in its provision of care for victims of major trauma, according to a new report.

A Florida neighbourhood watch volunteer who shot an unarmed black teenager had a bloody nose and a cut on his head, according to police reports.

Facebook prices its shares at $38 each ahead of one of the most eagerly anticipated share flotations in recent stock market history.

Thieves steal a metal plaque erected in memory of two young boys killed by IRA bombs in the Cheshire town of Warrington.

Private rents in England and Wales went up by 0.5% in April, according to letting agency group LSL Property Services.

Asking taxpayers and child benefit recipients to reveal information to their partners is legal, HM Revenue & Customs says, despite claims it breaks confidentiality rules.

Months of warnings have failed to stop a major malnutrition crisis in Niger, affecting more than six million people, Save the Children says.

The taxpayer could lose about £2bn once the assets of collapsed bank Northern Rock are wound down, the National Audit Office estimates.

A major search has been under way to find a fishing boat missing with a crew of three off the Dorset coast.

British fighter Amir Khan says compulsory drug testing must be introduced in boxing in an attempt to clean up the sport.

David Beckham and the mayor of London, Boris Johnson were part of an official delegation led by Princess Anne that travelled to Greece to collect the torch.

The US says it has relaxed some sanctions on investments in Burma and named an ambassador to the country following political reforms.

Ratings agency Moody's cuts the credit ratings of 16 Spanish banks, as shares in struggling lender Bankia fell another 14%.

Striker Robin van Persie joins up with the Dutch squad having yet to make a final decision on his Arsenal future.

The perils of being a reporter on live TV, the cafe just for cats and the $1,500 hot dog.

Britain's Andy Murray is beaten 6-7 (2-7) 6-3 6-2 by 16th seed Richard Gasquet of France in the Italian Open third round.

Relatives of the blind Chinese activist, Chen Guangcheng, have given detailed accounts of the torture and retribution they have allegedly suffered at the hands of Chinese authorities.

The US has plans in place to attack Iran if other measures fail to stop it developing nuclear weapons, Washington's envoy to Israel says.

When uploading the taxonomy of Anolis from The Reptile Database, scratchpads is reading each synonym of each species as a separate species, so it's creating a species level node for each synonym on the resulting taxonomy tree. Also it is importing every entry twice (in total there are 385 species of Anolis in The Reptile Database, but scratchpads is importing 5205 taxa!). http://sandbox.scratchpads.eu/taxonomy/term/8#overlay=admin/structure/ta...