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Asian Elephants are much smaller than the African elephantsonly growing to a couple of meters tall. Asian elephants are found in the tropical jungles of India and China, and throughout most countries in south-east Asia.  Asian elephants have been domesticated for hundreds of years for foresting and often battle. There are many places across Asia where Asian elephants are kept for tourists to ride, and are often treated fairly badly. Asian elephants are well known for their immense strength and friendliness towards humans. Today, the Asian elephant is considered an endangered species with only around 50,000 left in the wild. This is due to the loss of habitat of the Asian elephant and illegal poachers hunting the Asian elephant, for their skins and ivory. The Asian elephant has smaller ears than the African elephant and the Asian elephant also has a more curved spine than the African elephant. Unlike the African elephants, the female Asianelephant very rarely have tusks...

Taiwan's Asus has unveiled what it says is the first "affordable" household robot.  Voice-activated Zenbo will cost $599 (£409) and Asus says it will be able to control smart home devices. The firm said it would be less expensive than competing household robots because it did not have humanoid features such as arms.  But Taipei correspondent Cindy Sui said Zenbo could only perform a limited selection of tasks when she was given a demonstration.

The boy climbed through a barrier and fell into a moat, where he was grabbed and dragged by the gorilla.  The zoo said it took action to shoot the 400lb (180kg) gorilla as the situation was "life-threatening". The boy is expected to recover.  Last week two lions were shot dead in a zoo in Chile after a man entered their pen in an apparent suicide attempt.Cincinnati zoo has temporarily shut its gorilla exhibit following the incident on Saturday. The boy had fallen about 10ft into the moat. Video shows the boy being dragged through the shallow moat. The gorilla then stops, with the child below him and looking up at him.  But the boy was reportedly dragged by the 17-year-old male western lowland gorilla named Harambe for about 10 minutes.  The child was taken to a local hospital and although no information about his condition has been released it is believed he will recover.  Zoo director Thane Maynard said: "The officials made a tough choice and they ma...

The Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (Beam) is a demonstrator for the type of habitats that may be used to build future orbiting labs.  It is possible such rooms could even make for more living space during the many months it would take humans to travel to Mars.  The Beam was taken up to the station last month and connected to a berthing point on the Tranquility module.  Installed in compact form, it had to be inflated - something astronaut Jeff Williams eventually managed to achieve.  The new room will undergo two years of tests. Engineers want to know if the structure is as robust as traditional metal modules.  Astronauts will not actually go in the Beam that often, given its experimental nature. And when they do, it will be to have a quick look around to check its integrity. Nothing will be stored in the room, either.  Most of the time, the hatch to the Beam will remain closed and controllers on the ground will monitor its status through a serie...

Pauline Cafferkey, 40, from Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, was hospitalised three times after contracting the virus while working in Sierra Leone in 2014.She told that she was now "Ebola negative" and her health had come on "leaps and bounds". But she said there were long-term issues, such as numbness and dizziness.Speaking on Radio Scotland's Stephen Jardine programme, Ms Cafferkey revealed that her case was the highest viral load of Ebola ever recorded in a survivor. She said that since being discharged from hospital for a third time in February, she had been doing "great" and had come on "leaps and bounds in the past few months." However, she added: "I've got pins and needles and numbness over various parts of my body. I've still got swelling at the base of my spine, which is very painful and dizziness - my balance isn't too good."Ms Cafferkey said a weakness that developed in her left leg had not improved....

The plane began the stage on Wednesday in Dayton, Ohio, travelling 1,044km to reach the East Coast waypoint.  The journey is the 13th leg in a quest that started in Abu Dhabi last year to circumnavigate the globe on zero fuel.  Swiss adventurer Bertrand Piccard was in the pilot's seat of the 72m-wingspan, electric plane.  The aircraft took off from Dayton International Airport at 04:02 local time (08:02 GMT). It landed in Lehigh Valley at 20:49 local time (00:49 GMT, Thursday).  The achievement positions the project to make its entry into New York in the coming days. The "Big Apple" is set to be the base for Solar Impulse as it waits for a weather window to fly the Atlantic.  Deciding when to cross the ocean will be a tricky decision. The slow-moving, ultra-light plane needs benign winds, and the team concedes that the right conditions may not present themselves for several weeks.Wednesday's flight to Lehigh Valley was postponed for 24 hours for check...

There can be a lot of coaching for workers and therefore the feed will not believe an inventory of reports organisations, as well as the BBC, Washington Post and Buzzfeed News, to validate subjects.  The feed, that lists common headlines together with a short description, has been suspect of political bias.  However, Facebook's report found no proof of this.  Facebook general counsel Colin Stretch same the investigation analysed three,000 reviewer selections following allegations that conservative problems were being suppressed.The site was suspect by anonymous former workers of change of state with its Trending Topics feature, promoting "progressive" views and websites over content presenting views from the yank right. Current and former workers were additionally interviewed by the firm.  The findings were unconcealed in an exceedingly 12-page letter, addressed to North American nation legislator John Thune however additionally printed on-line, in resp...