Timing is Everything

For more than half a century, China has used its pandas to help foster relationships with other countries. Recently, panda loans have coincided with multimillion dollar trade deals for salmon, Land Rover vehicles and uranium.

It's cherry blossom time in Washington, D.C. The oldest trees are a gift from Japan where the flowers have long symbolized the fleeting nature of beauty and the ephemerality of life.

A new system by Motus Digital allows actors to turn into animated characters in real time. Live, and even improvised cartoons can be made rather than just drawing an animation to match a recorded audio track.

The end is nigh! Harold Camping has predicted that the Rapture will be on May 21st, and his prophecy has gained traction among believers, as well as the people mocking it.

The resilient Bar-tailed Godwit, a land bird, flies over 7,000 miles nonstop from Alaska to New Zealand, with a little help from opportune winds.

A little time away from the nightlife comes at a particularly propitious moment, as Davis was recently turned away from a high-profile LA hotspot.

Swimmers require incredible strength, flexibility, grace, artistry and long underwater endurance to participate in synchronized swimming.