A highly popular British pop band storms out of its debut performance on BBC TV's The two siblings who make up the group The Magic Numbers, refuse to perform their single on Sunday's edition of the show after taking offense to comments made by guest host Richard Bacon.

The Sydney Aquarium is being sued after one of its giant exhibition tanks exploded. Hazel Swinden, 61, was left in chest-high water and showered with shattered glass and surrounded by sharks after the tank exploded.

New research finds sea birds are responsible for the transportation of industrial and agricultural pollutants to the Arctic. A recent study shows the levels of one important class of industrial chemicals, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), are 30 times higher in Canadian Inuits living north of the Arctic circle, than in residents of temperate Quebec.