Hurricane Earl thundered towards the shores of Belize on Wednesday (August 3), dumping heavy rains on Honduras and prompting hundreds of people to take cover on the Caribbean coastline as the large storm closed in. Four hundred people have so far been evacuated from Belize’s northern islands Ambergris Caye and Caye Caulker, Lionel Cuthkelvin, operations officer at the National Emergency Management Organization, said by telephone. Cuthkelvin said at least 20 shelters were already harbouring people, […]

A footprint measuring over a meter wide that was made by a meat-eating predator some 80 million years ago has been discovered in Bolivia, one of the largest of its kind ever found. The print, which measures 1.2 meters (1.3 yards) across, probably belonged to the abelisaurus, a biped dinosaur that once roamed South America, said Argentine palaeontologist Sebastian Apesteguia, who is studying the find. The print was found some 64 kilometres (40 miles) outside […]

Cuba may be one of the world’s least connected countries but that’s not stopping the Japanese subculture of anime and manga graphic novels spreading among its youth who held their third Otaku festival on Sunday (July 24). Hundreds of “otakus”, or geeky fans, flocked from around Cuba to the event in a Havana theater, defying the sweltering summer heat to roleplay sporting the costumes of their favourite fantasy characters, a practise known as “cosplay”. Some […]