Stockholm announces British author Kazuo Ishiguro, best known for his novel "The Remains of the Day" , has won the 2017 Nobel Literature Prize. The 69-year-old author reacts to the news in London.

The panda cub born to Mei Xiang, the second oldest documented giant panda in the world to give birth, at the Washington zoo is now nine weeks old and is able to crawl to his mother.

Emy, a 1.5 month old baby puma, is having her second medical check-up at the Paris zoo. All that remains for her to do is to familiarise herself with the group of adults, who for the moment seem to accept her rather well.

of the fire overnight, and damage the following morningN°1X321QThe Creek Fire in northern California continues to burn, having spread to 135,525 acres. The state has now seen more than 2.2 million acres burn in wildfires this year -- an annual record, with nearly four months of fire season still to come.

Conservationists found a leopardess and her four newborn cubs in a farmer's shed and sprung to action, setting up cameras to monitor them and educating scared villagers nearby. The leopards were taking shelter from India's heavy monsoon rains and returned to the forest after six days.

The world's biggest electric passenger ferry sails between Denmark and Sweden for a 4km journey. The ferry "works pretty much like a phone", that charges for up to nine minutes when it needs more power, explains Jens Ole Hansen, the COO of ForSea, which operates the line.