NORTHAMPTONSHIRE: Work on part of a £45m regeneration scheme in Northamptonshire has stopped while council bosses wait for a brood of ducklings to hatch.A nesting mallard duck was spotted near a wall earmarked for demolition at the Moat Lane site in Towcester. Two birds’ nests ...

HONG KONG: The giant inflatable rubber duck which has attracted tens of thousands of visitors since it sailed into Hong Kong two weeks ago was reduced to a sad deflated disc Wednesday in the city’s harbour.Duck mania has gripped Hong Kong since its arrival, with locals and tourists flocking ...

HONG KONG - AFP - An inflatable rubber duck six storeys high sailed into Hong Kong harbour on Thursday to the cheers of hundreds of people who gathered to watch the classic bathtime-inspired artistic creation.The bright yellow 16.5-metre-tall (54-feet) Rubber Duck, conceived by Dutch artist ...

SYDNEY  - When Georg Friedrich Handel composed Semele in the 1740s, he could never have imagined it would be performed by opera singers in outrageous catwalk couture, including towering boots and sequinned kilts.But for Sydney Festival director Lieven Bertels, the combination of beautiful ...