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Researchers working in Exuma and Eleuthera are puzzling over the Brown Anole lizard and its ability to choose the gender of its offspring.
Biologists from Dartmouth found that when limited to small mates, female lizards have less male offspring. This is a helpful for their survival, since researchers also found that males born to smaller fathers were less likely to survive than those born to bigger dads.
Explanation: An eerie blue glow and ominous columns of dark dust highlight M78 and other bright reflection nebula in the constellation of Orion.
The dark filamentary dust not only absorbs light, but also reflects the light of several bright blue stars that formed recently in the nebula. Of the two reflection nebulas pictured above, the more famous nebula is M78, in the image center, while NGC 2071 can be seen to its lower left.
The Bachelor' finale in St Lucia
Black prisoner dies protestisting racisim in Cuba
Sizzla performing in Ghana
Uganda pastor uses gay porn to support anti-homosexuality law
Malaysia canes three women for adultery
Obama meets with Dalai Lama despite China objections
King Tut may have died of malaria
'Please rob me' website shows locations of empty homes
American shipwrecked for three days in The Bahamas
Gambler ordered to repay $1m to a Bahamian casino
Winter Olympics on Day 5
Senior Taliban official captured
Pope condemns bishops over sex abuse
Iran warns against future sanctions
Winners of the Barbados Amateur Model Search
Trinidad deploys 'water police' to protect supplies
Disaster expert said Haiti is still an emergency
Russian hacker plays porn on giant screen
Give up iPods for lent, Bishops urge
Olivia Newton-John wins sexiest song ever
Macho chefs invading our kitchens
Deadly train collision in Belgium
Pope meets with Bishops to discuss child abuse
Checking the gender of female athletes
New cure for a broken heart: Death Bear
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Groom rows 2,500 miles to Barbados to get married
Pitchers from the Dominican Republic cleared to enter US
Supermodels hold fashion show for Haiti
ABACO, Bahamas - Although he has worked in war zones, producer James Barrat said he thinks his chances of dying were higher during his dives into The Bahamas' blue holes.
In a story on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) website, Barrat wrote: "I've filmed in three war zones, but I think the chances of someone dying were higher in blue holes than in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Zaire.
Pilots from all over the world will fly through The Bahamas, The Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and Turks and Caicos, learning about the local culture and earning points for teamwork, discipline and general aviation knowledge.
The 10-day event runs from April 17-27 and starts in Florida. Bahamian aviation specialist Greg Rolle will give a 'Fly The Bahamas' presentation on April 16th at the
In two days the Winter Olympics will begin in Vancouver, Canada.
The Winter Olympic Games will run from February 12-28 and includes ski jumping, luge, ice hockey, speed skating, curling, snowboarding.
The opening ceremony on Friday will be the first
Doctors said today they have little doubt that a man found in Haiti's rubble was trapped for nearly a month.
Physicians from the University of Miami's field hospital in Haiti said today that 28-year-old Evan Muncie's health was what they would expect from someone who had been trapped for 27 days.
Winning their first Super Bowl, the New Orleans Saints beat the Indianapolis Colts 31-17 Sunday.
After the surprising but decisive win from the Saints, the word at the top of most news stories is "aggressive". It's the word of choice for New Orleans' strategy, which included a never-before-seen play at the start of the second half.
The risky play was the
Even though sharks were still circling kiteboarder Howard Schafer, lifeguard Daniel Lund swam out a quarter-mile to get him.
It took Lund 20 minutes to get to Shafer, who was hanging onto his kiteboard."I get to him, I'm probably within 20 yards or so from him, and there's just a lot of blood in the water," Lund said.
Even though there were sharks circling nearby, the lifeguard
The trial of the Senator and Paramedic accused of trying to extort $25 million from actor John Travolta will begin in September this year. Last week the court set the date of the new trial for September 16.
The trial is connected to Travolta's 16-year-old son, Jett, who died after a seizure at his family's vacation home in Grand Bahama.
Progressive Liberal Party senator, Pleasant Bridgewater, and paramedic Tarino Lightbourne are accused of
Haitians are questioning the government's decision to end the search for survivors, especially after a man was found alive soon after the search officially ended, according to the BBC.
Hours after Haiti's government formally ended the search for survivors, resucers pulled Wismond Exantus from the remains of the Napoli Inn Hotel in Haiti.
Nearly 100 people are almost certainly dead after a plane crashed into the Mediterranean Sea early Monday Morning.
Witnesses say there was a huge flash as Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 crashed into the sea, only a few minutes after takeoff.
The BBC has reported 80 passengers and nine crew on board while the Lebanese National News Agency says there were 97 people on the plane.
The United States has taken a tough stance toward potential immigrants, warning Haitians that authorities would "intercept you right on the water and send you back where you came from" according to a transcript released by the Pentagon.
The New York Times reported that a United States Air Force is broadcasting messages from a cargo plane discouraging any who may be considering heading to America.
Three Florida men were aboard the plane that crashed near the Bimini Bay Resort on Sunday.
The three men are all from Naples, Florida and have been identified as pilot David Howell, Andrew Peterson and J.P. Antonmattei. It is now thought that initial reports of a fourth person aboard were wrong.
Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham said he was surprised that some Bahamians have protested the decision to release 93 Haitians while Haiti recovers from a massive earthquake.
Prime Minister Ingraham said it would be "unthinkable" not to release the detainees when Haiti is obviously in no position to accept repatriated citizens.
Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham has asked banks to accept money for a public Haiti fund.
Prime Minister Ingraham said the government asked Clearing Banks (see list below) to accept donations into a special account for Emergency and Reconstruction Assistance to Haiti.
Haitian-born rapper Wyclef Jean spoke out Saturday in defense of his foundation after charity screening groups raised concerns about its accounting practices.
Jean said he was baffled by the timing and nature of criticism of The Wyclef Jean Foundation Inc., which has already raised more than $2 million to help earthquake victims.
This coastal city normally would be gearing up for its raucous Carnival festival, with celebrants in brightly decorated masks dancing in the streets and the air filled with joyous song.
Instead, the streets are plugged with rubble, the air heavy with the stench of the dead. And the only melody is a mournful tune strummed by Gabriel Mollet.
Since December there have been reports on the internet that Tiger Woods was on his way or already in The Bahamas.
Aid workers hoping to distribute food, water and other supplies to a shattered Port-au-Prince are warning their efforts may need more security Friday as Haitians grow increasingly desperate and impatient for help.
Up to 50, people killed
Thousands of people still trapped
7.0 magnitude earthquake
Relief workers pouring in form around the world
3 million people homeless
100 million donated from the US
Bill Clinton & George W Bush spear heading a fund effort
In the aftermath of the earthquake that has left at least 72,000 dead, Bahamians are reaching out to help Haiti.
Here are a few of the ways that Bahamians can send help:
President Barack Obama said Haiti had America's full support in rescue and recovery efforts following yesterday's earthquake. Thousands are feared dead.
A local doctor in Haiti said that he fears that hundreds of people may been killed by the massive 7.0 magnutude earthquake which hit Haiti today.
My colleagues and I are deeply distressed at the news of what appears to be a very powerful 7.0 earthquake that struck our neighbour Haiti this afternoon.
Our information is that the anticipated threat of a tsunami affecting The Bahamas and other neighbouring states has apparently diminished but there may be some high tides as a result of the earthquake.
NEW BREAK ---- There is a Bahamian officer in Port-au-Prince but the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been unable so far to establish contact with her.
A major magnitude 7.0 quake hit the impoverished country of Haiti on Wednesday and prompted a tsunami watch for parts the Caribbean (Including The Bahamas), the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said.
After nearly a decade of planning, a couple from Michigan got their affairs in order and boarded their 30-foot sloop for a year-long trip to The Bahamas.
United States Senator Harry Reid has apologized for saying that Barack Obama had a better chance of winning because he was "light-skinned" and did not speak like a "Negro".
Google is now officially in the phone business with a superfast, voice-activated 'superphone' (they are serious about that) known as the Nexus One.
After an attack on a Christmas Day flight, passengers heading to the United States will face tougher security measures.
More than 40 Chinese workers stopped working and left the National Stadium construction site, reportedly angry that they were not paid before the New Year's Day holiday.
The Coast Guard has stopped searching for Neha Chhikara, a 23-year-old Indian woman who went missing during a cruise in The Bahamas.
Prime Minister the Rt. Hon. Hubert Ingraham, right, is greeted by United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Prime Minister the Rt. Hon. Hubert Ingraham, right, is greeted by United States President Barack Obama at the United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Prime Minister the Rt. Hon. Hubert Ingraham is greeted by Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, at a gala dinner at Christiansborg for Heads of State and Government attending the United Nations Conference on Climate Change.
The dinner, hosted by Her Majesty and her husband, Prince Consort was held on Thursday, December 17, 2009.
The Bahamas joins its voice with like-minded states in calling for a strong political agreement in Copenhagen which will cause world-wide reductions in green house emissions.
In short order I will leave for the United Nation’s 15th Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark, along with the Minister for the Environment, Earl Deveaux, and other Bahamian officials.
The Bahamas and Argentina sign a Tax Information Exchange Agreement (TIEA) on Thursday, December 3, 2009 in Buenos Aires.
It gives the Government of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas great pleasure to execute this Agreement for the Exchange of Information on Tax Matters with the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
NASSAU, Bahamas - The Commonwealth of the Bahamas and the People’s Republic of China signed a Tax Information Exchange Agreement, representing another milestone in diplomatic relations between both countries.
The Bahamas was re-elected to the IMO Council in Category C of the United Nations International Maritime Organization (IMO) on November 27, during the 26th Session of the General Assembly of the IMO in London, England.
Repatriating illegal immigrants is proving to be a costly exercise for the Bahamas government, with the Immigration Department spending US$1 million so far this year to send the undocumented aliens back home.
The two suspects in the JOHN TRAVOLTA extortion trial would have been convicted had a mistrial not been declared, according to a newspaper in the Bahamas.
The case against Pleasant Bridgewater and Tarino Lightbourne collapsed after Bahamian politician Picewell Forbes prematurely announced the verdict to the media at an event miles away from where the jury was deliberating.
One million. That’s how many people have attended the Jensen Beach Pineapple Festival since its inception in 1988, according to Ron Rose, executive director of the Jensen Beach Chamber of Commerce.
The Bahamas has proposed that governments in the region work with the private sector to leverage the economic and innovative power of the private sector for counterterrorism efforts in the Western Hemisphere.
A federal grand jury on Tuesday indicted two men on charges they were involved in a $900,000 money-laundering scheme with suspended Broward County Commissioner Josephus Eggelletion.
John Travolta's attorney has asked Bahamian authorities to forward all of the evidence from the attempted extortion trial of Pleasant Bridgewater and Tarino Lightbourne to prosecutors in the United States who will see if the case could be retried there.
NASSAU, Bahamas -- As the third week of testimony in the attempted extortion trial of former Senator Pleasant Bridgewater and ambulance driver Tarino Lightbourne got underway yesterday, the jury saw videotape evidence in which Lightbourne acknowledged that there could be legal ramifications for negotiating the sale of a document he allegedly thought could implicate American actor John Travolta in the death of his son on Grand Bahama earlier this year.
Hailed for her foresight and leadership skills, and for positioning The Bahamas as a voice to be heard internationally on public health matters, Chief Medical Officer Dr Merceline Dahl-Regis last night accepted the Pan American Health Organization Award for Administration for 2009.
I am very happy to be in Miami to address this distinguished gathering. I thank the World Bank, the State of Florida, Florida International University and the Miami Herald, for continuing to bring focus to Latin America and the Caribbean, particularly so during the current global economic crisis
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs the Hon Brent Symonette called on the Sixty-Fourth Session of the United Nations General Assembly to review the membership fee as it relates to small island developing states.
United States' ambassador-designate to The Bahamas, Nicole Avant, paid a courtesy call on Rhoda Jackson, Charge D'Affaires, at the Bahamas' Embassy in Washington, DC, on Friday.
NASSAU, Bahamas – It was an evening of glamour and glitz as the 84 Miss Universe contestants participated in the Evening Gown competition.
Jessica Simpson Dumped Because She Begged For Ring.
The rumor has it that Jessica Simpson got dumped from wonder boy Tony Romo because she kept begging him for an engagement ring. She also would not shut up about settling down and getting married. But the American Football star had enough and finally get her the boot.
The harrowing, never-before-seen footage of the singer's 1984 Pepsi commercial accident, filmed in L.A.'s Shrine Auditorium on Jan. 27, 1984.
The song -- "A Place with No Name" -- sounds similar to the song "A Horse with No Name" released by the group America back in 1971. We're told several years ago America's manager gave his group's permission for Jackson to record the song, "A Place with No Name" -- despite the similarity.
A source close to Michael Jackson tells ET that the international superstar and pop-music legend has passed away earlier Thursday afternoon. He was 50.
I have just heard that Michael Jackson has died.. Michael Jackson who was just 50 years old suffered a cardiac arrest earlier this afternoon at his Holmby Hill home and paramedics were unable to revive him.
REMARKS BY SENATOR THE HON. DION FOULKES, 25 May 2009, on the Resignation of Senator Kay Smith
NASSAU, Bahamas - The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has submitted to the Secretary General of the United Nations, preliminary scientific information indicative of the outer limits of its Continental Shelf beyond 200 nautical miles.
More than three thousand people got a taste of The Bahamas this past weekend, when The Embassy of The Bahamas to the United States participated in two events that raised the Embassy’s profile in Washington, DC, exposing the metropolitan DC community to Bahamian culture and furthering cultural relations between the neighbours.
Bahamas-born Andre Deveaux moved up to the big league -- in ice hockey -- this week as he started with the NHL's Toronto Maple Leafs. Deveaux, who was born in Freeport, Grand Bahama, moved to Canada at age three and grew up playing hockey for the Welland (Ontario) Tigers. Deveaux signed with the Leafs as a free agent last July.
Barack Obama has named former rival Hillary Clinton as his Secretary of State.
The President said Robert Gates would stay on as Defence Secretary as part of a national security team charged with recasting America's leadership of world affairs.
Even after he returns to the wild, a city-raised lion remembers where he came from. Friends forever...a must see. It brings tears to ones eyes, we have so much to learn !! (video).
He has promised to double America’s investment in "building just, secure and democratic societies" around the world to $50 billion a year by 2012, and to seriously address "US foreign assistance funding."
Use the live interactive map below to track and check the results from the 2008 United States national elections. (Hit REFRESH on your web browser for the latest data.)
If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.
The Presidential race was called for Barack Obama at 11p.m. on the East Coast, 8p.m. on the West. An hour later he was on stage at Grant Park in Chicago, speaking to the tens of thousands of supporters gathered there. Here are the highlights of his acceptance speech:
Two comedians posing as the French President speak candidly with the Governor.
Republican VP hopeful Palin falls prey to Canadian pranksters.
Listen to the full clip.
The Cuban ambassador to The Bahamas, Jose Luis Ponce is criticizing the US government for maintaining the embargo against his country despite the $5 billion in damage it received as a result of direct hits from Hurricanes Gustav and Ike.
Hankering for a taste of home, but you just happen to be in Florida, well no worries, because Tyrone Nabbie and his partners, Chad and Bassel Maali have taken the cuisine of The Bahamas to the United States — specifically Central Florida.
John McCain came here Tuesday hoping the second presidential debate would help him jar loose a campaign that for the past three weeks has been about the economy, the economy and the economy.
He didn't get his wish.
OJ Simpson has been found guilty of all 12 counts in his armed robbery and kidnapping trial 13 years to the day he was acquitted of the double murder of his wife Nicole and her friend Ronald Goldman.
From Joe Biden's choke-up to Sarah Palin's "say it ain't so, Joe", we present the top moments from the Biden-Palin debate.
One expert says we're safe from another Great Depression, but not because we're smarter.
Swiss adventurer has become the first person to fly solo across the English Channel using a single jet-propelled wing.
Known as Fusionman, Yves Rossy, 49, landed in an English field after around ten minutes having jumped from a plane above France and fired up the four kerosene-burning jets on his homemade wing to soar across the Channel.
CHICAGO - Authorities say a man arrested near Barack Obama's Chicago home told police officers he wanted to speak with the presidential hopeful about getting a job. (video)
Magician David Blaine's doctor is concerned that his latest stunt may irrevocably damage his health.
Blaine is still hanging upside-down in New York Central Park and Dr Ronald Ruden, who has advises him on all of his challenges said he was particularly concerned about blood clots and blindness.
In the early days of August, a suspected drug-running boat zoomed through the Straits of Florida, trying to outrun her American pursuers. The drug boat zigged and zagged near reefs and sandbars at 42 knots, and skimmed over water as little as five feet deep. Ordinarily, that would have been enough shake off any Coast Guard cutter or Navy frigate chasing her -- those vessels can't be in such shallow water.
A U.S. bankruptcy judge approved a revised version of Barclays' deal to purchase the core U.S. business of Lehman Brothers.
In a Manhattan court hearing that started on Friday and lasted past midnight, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge James Peck approved the sale, saying he had found no better alternative for the assets Lehman sought to sell.
Three executives dubbed "Germany's stupidest bankers" in the press have been suspended from state bank KfW over erroneous transfers of more than 500 million euros (710 million dollars) to the bankrupt Lehman Brothers, the KfW said.
The US Government is stepping in with a $85 billion rescue package to prevent the world's biggest insurance company from going under. (VIDEO NEWS INCLUDED)
The drop came after Lehman brothers announced it was filing bankruptcy and Merrill Lynch agreed to be bought by bank of America, Sue Turner reports (2:23)
PERM, Russia (Reuters) - An Aeroflot Boeing 737-500 plane crashed in Russia on Sunday, killing all 88 passengers and crew including 21 foreign nationals.
The passenger jet was flying from Moscow to Perm near the Ural mountains when it plunged into scrubland and railway tracks on the edge of the city narrowly short of houses.
The United States Embassy in Nassau was saddened to learn of the tragic murder of DEA Group Supervisor Thomas J. Byrne. Tom was valuable members of the U.S. Embassy Nassau team from early 2002 to 2006 were he served his country with great honor, passion and courage.
Gov. Sarah Palin explains her quote that U.S. soldiers are in Iraq on a "task that is from God."
Gloria Luna, Representative for Archdiocese of Miami Dade talks about the hurricane relief efforts area churches are doing for Haiti
Four Caribbean nations have banded together to pursue the formation of a pan-Caribbean political union by 2013, but despite a recent visit from the regional leader promoting the idea, The Bahamas is not considering joining that union.
Cornelius Smith, ambassador of the Bahamas to the U.S., will meet with Detroiters in the tourism, real estate and construction industries Friday at two Booker T. Washington Business Association events.
A lot of attention was paid Tuesday morning to John McCain's inability to answer how many houses he owns.
U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, and Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., the featured guest at the Iowa delegation's morning meeting, both took a poke at their colleague for his non-answer to a question from a reporter about his house holdings.
Just as England once lived under the Tudor, China once lived under the Ming and the American League East once lived under the Torre, we earthlings live under a dynasty these days.
It’s a benevolent dynasty, the Bahamas dynasty -- they do let us come visit their islands and serve us drinks with tiny umbrellas sticking out of them -- until it comes to the quadrennial test known as the Olympics, when they fluster the rest of us again.
Two of the 19 survivors of the Spanish jet which crashed shortly after takeoff, killing 153 people, have spoken of the moment they escaped from the burning wreckage.
An airliner packed with families bound for the Canary Islands has crashed during take-off, killing 153 people on board as it turned into a massive fireball.
The red lionfish is rapidly multiplying in the Caribbean, swallowing native species, stinging divers and wreaking havoc on an ecologically delicate region.
Accused drug smuggler Keva Major has been freed from the Federal Detention Center.
According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons website, Major, 39, was released on August 6. However, it is understood that Mrs. Major, a mother of four, will remain in the United States until she is processed for deportation by immigration officials.
This is what Morgan Freeman's car looked like by the time it got done rolling off the highway. The red circle shows Freeman still in the vehicle waiting to be cut out. He was driving but the car, a '97 Nissan Maxima, belonged to his passenger Demaris Meyer. The crash happened near his home in Mississippi. Freeman is said to be resting comfortably after surgery on his broken arm. Meyer's condition has yet to be updated. Neither alcohol nor drugs are believed to have played a part. Look for broken bits of the car to soon appear on eBay.
AN ANGRY Rangers fan flew 5000 miles from the Bahamas for a game - only to be locked out in a ticket fiasco.
WASHINGTON - John McCain wants the presidential campaign to be about Barack Obama — that's why he talks about him so much.
Earlier yesterday, the Marlins were said to be holding a slim chance of pulling off a trade for Manny Ramirez.
The Bahamas High Commissioner to Canada His Excellency Michael Smith recently toured the North Pole weather station operated by the Canadian Govern-ment. He was with a contingent of 19 Ambassadors and High Commissioners from countries representing Eu-rope, Asia, The Americas, and Africa.
A Qantas passenger airliner en route from Hong Kong to Melbourne in Australia was forced to land in Manila, the Philippines capital, on Friday after a hole appeared in the fuselage of the Boeing 747-400 and the cabin decompressed.
White House hopeful Barack Obama has landed in Berlin to begin the European leg of his international tour, ahead of November's US presidential poll.
Gloria Luna, Representative for Archdiocese of Miami Dade talks about the hurricane relief efforts area churches are doing for Haiti
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