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...success of District 9 spoke to the abiding power of sci-fi. The movie, which posits the imprisoning of space creatures in a Joburg detention camp, and the plight of their human warden who gets infected and forges a bond with the aliens to save his own life, is the sixth s-f action adventure to win a weekend in the 2009 summer season that began in early May with X-Men Origins: Wolverine. But it's the first one not sponsored by Hollywood - Jackson raised the money, Sony bought the rights - and the first South African film that American...
...technical difficulty, the mountain group is considered one of the most challenging in the world - some alpinists believe it is even more difficult than the more famous Himalayan peak K2. When bad weather forced them to abandon their attempt to summit Latok I, the two retreated to their base camp. (See pictures of Mount Everest...
...Some vulture restaurants in India also allow meat drop-offs, making it easier for farmers to dispose of carcasses. Though most restaurants are operating in Asia, there are also a few others in Africa. Anywhere from five to 100 vultures may descend in a day at South Africa's Camp Jambulani vulture restaurant, ranger Steven DuToit tells TIME. (Read "The New Age of Extinction...
...still saw a wealth of fauna including greater kudu, the agile klipspringer antelope, fish eagles, the voracious ant lion and shy pancake tortoises. Added drama came from following elephant tracks, hearing a leopard grunt across a riverbank, speculating as to the whereabouts of a lone crocodile near our camp and scrambling up the rocky 5,000-ft. (1,500 m) massifs of Ngai Sui Sui and Tale, or down the Lengatoi river gorge - memorable for its heavily eroded granite and limestone rocks...
...likely to be one of Germany's last Nazi war-crimes trials. John Demjanjuk, 89, is currently sitting in a Munich prison awaiting trial, after having been charged with being an accessory to the murder of 27,900 Jews while he was a guard at the Nazi concentration camp Sobibor. No date has been set, but doctors confirmed recently that he's fit to stand trial. It remains to be seen how Demjanjuk's trial will be affected by Tuesday's verdict, which sends a clear signal that the consequences of Nazi crimes do not fade with the passage...