1st edition of Charles Darwin’s seminal “On the Origin of Species” sold in UK

October 14th, 2009 Tycoon tales and Darwin get award nominationsNEW YORK — The subjects of this year's National Book Award nominees were better known than the authors. Biographies about tycoons Henry Ford and Cornelius Vanderbilt were among the finalists announced Wednesday, along with two books relating to Charles Darwin.

September 17th, 2009 LONDON - An undercover investigation has exposed the scale of gorilla poaching, by finding that up to two gorillas are killed and sold as bushmeat each week in Kouilou, a region of the Republic of Congo. According to report by BBC News, after the apes are killed, their body parts are then taken downriver and passed on to traders who sell them in big-city markets.

August 13th, 2009 Hitler's infamous manifesto sold in UKLONDON — More than 80 years after it was first published —and later outlawed— in Germany, a signed copy of Adolf Hitler's infamous manifesto "Mein Kampf" was sold Thursday for 21,000 pounds ($34,900). The semi-autobiographical work outlining Hitler's anti-Semitic ideology, was sold to an anonymous telephone bidder at an auction in the town of Ludlow in western England.

August 7th, 2009 GLASGOW - McTear's Auctioneers in Glasgow have sold a Macallan 50th anniversary bottle of whiskey for a record 11,750 pounds, including a buyer's premium of 17.5 per cent. The whiskey was distilled more than 80 years ago and has become the most expensive spirit of its type to be sold at auction, The Daily Express reports.

July 3rd, 2009 LONDON - Specimens and manuscripts from Charles Darwin's Beagle voyage - not seen together since that historic circumnavigation of the globe - will be reunited at the opening of Cambridge University Library's new exhibition next Monday. A Voyage Round the World: Charles Darwin and the Beagle Collections in the University of Cambridge opens on July 6 and brings together the world's foremost Darwin archive, preserved at the Library, with a wealth of Darwin collections held around the University.

June 20th, 2009 LONDON - Plants really do like it if you talk to them. And they prefer to hear a woman's voice.

June 2nd, 2009 LONDON - A first edition of Charles Darwin's pioneering work On The Origin Of Species, found at a family home, is set to go under the hammer. Only 1,250 copies of the text were created when it was first printed in 1859.

May 17th, 2009 QUITO - Scientists have fitted videocameras on three giant tortoises in Galapagos National Park in Ecuador to understand the behaviour of these ancient animals. The project 'consists of attaching a videocamera, known as Crittercam, to the shells of three giant tortoises', park officials said in a statement Saturday.

April 30th, 2009 1st edition of Darwin's landmark book up for saleLONDON — A British auction house says it is offering Darwin fans a chance to buy a first edition of the famed naturalist's groundbreaking book. Auctioneer Keys says the copy of "On the Origin of Species" is expected to sell on Thursday for up to 30,000 pounds ($44,600).

April 29th, 2009 LONDON - Actress Elizabeth Hurley will join hands with Prince Charles to launch a range of organic and low fat food. Hurley was inspired to go into the catering business last year after reading dietary advice for women hoping to avoid breast cancer.

April 22nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Filmmaker Mani Kaul, who has made movies like 'Uski Roti' (1970), 'Duvidha' (1973), has taken over as the new director general of the Osian's-Cinefan Film Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema. Kaul succeeds film historian Aruna Vasudev, who retired after the 10th edition of the fest last year.

March 18th, 2009 GENEVA - Bugatti celebrated its 100th birthday by unveiling a Bugatti Veyron Bleu Centenaire special edition at the Geneva Motor Show, taking a cue from the traditional Bugatti with an exclusive colour combination. The special model, which is a one-off edition, combines 'sprint blue matt' and 'sprint blue gloss' colours and parts of the engine are also in the traditional Bugatti Blue.

March 12th, 2009 LONDON - The online auction of love letters reportedly written by Britain's Prince Charles has sparked a row. The prince allegedly sent the letters to Welsh-born Janet Jenkins, reports Contactmusic.

January 21st, 2009 LONDON - Certain invasive ant species that successfully invade large swathes of land do so by cooperating to form a super-colony. While common ant colonies compete with neighbouring colonies for resources and territory, invasive ants abandon all aggressiveness among colonies and work together to form enormous super-colonies consisting of thousands of interconnected nests.

January 2nd, 2009 WAYANAD - Three men have been arrested for allegedly selling six specimens of a protected species of barn owls near here. 'One man was arrested early Dec 25 while the other two were trapped when they were trying to sell six juvenile owls.