Six elephants including three calves died in India's north-eastern state of Meghalaya after getting drunk on rice beer and running through a paddy field where they were electrocuted, officials and residents said Tuesday. The incident happened in the village of Chandan Nukat, about 250 kilometres west of Shillong, the state capital, on Sunday night.

An 11-year old medium sulfur-crested cockatoo is one heck of a fan of Backstreet Boys. According to reports Snowball lifts his legs, squawks and bobs his head, flashing his bright yellow crest to the beat of the band's "Everybody," even taking a bow with a vigorous bob of his head at the end of the 1997 pop tune.

What can about $30 million buy you these days? How about your very own copy of the basis for Western civil rights - the Magna Carta. Auction house, Sotheby's, will put a genuine copy of one of the earliest versions of the Magna Carta up for bidding in December, after the historical document leaves the National Archives in Washington.

The current Guinness Book of Record world's oldest person holder, died Monday afternoon at nursing home in Fukuchi, Fukuoka Prefecture. Yone Minagawa, born on January 4, 1893, 114-year-old died of old age. She was the oldest person since January 2005 following the death of record holder Emma Faust Tillman. After Monday, the next title of world's oldest person is U. S. national Edna Parker.

The first planned hotel in space set to open in 2012 is offering the most expensive room accommodation in the galaxy at $4 million for a three-night stay, the news. com. au reported on Friday. The accommodation package at the Galactic Suite includes the flight to the hotel, an 80-minute orbit around Earth, the sight of 15 sunrises per day and eight weeks of intensive preflight training at a space camp on a tropical island.