Australia is scheduled to host the sixth annual Homeless World Cup later this year. The event brings together hundreds of homeless players from 48 countries to compete. VOA’s Sean Maroney has more on the recent Homeless USA Cup in Washington.

Another creature to join the world’s strangest animals.

The platypus sports fur like a mammal, paddles its duck feet like a bird and lays eggs in the manner of a reptile.

Nature’s instruction manual for this oddball, it turns out, is just as much of a mishmash.

Researchers just mapped the genome of a female platypus from Australia. The genetic sequence of this Aussie monotreme (a type of mammal) is detailed in the May 8 issue of the journal Nature.

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Using snow canons,chain-saws,a team of architects, builders and sculptors are in a race against time and bitter arctic weather. They are trying to build a hotel only from snow and ice and do it in less than 6 weeks. A film by National Geographic about a hotel made entirely of ice, located about 200 kilometer (124 mile) north of the Arctic Circle in Sweden.

A cool little Crayon game.

Remember ele-vision with cheeky langur monkeys, here a cheeky bumble-bee smiles for the camera. This amazing photo was catched contingently by amateur photographer Chris Cox in the back garden of his home in Cornwall. -Hang-