BBC

London England,

A wine fountain similar to those used by Henry VIII has been unveiled at Hampton Court Palace.

Xinhua News Agency

Xinjiang China,

The DNA of some 4,000 year old bodies unearthed five years ago in Xinjiang, in northwest China, provides scientific evidence of early intermingling between people of European and Asian origin.

Associated Press of Pakistan

Gomostapur Bangladesh,

Villagers working on a World Food Programme (WFP) project in Bangladesh's northern region have uncovered a rare statue while excavating a silted up community fish pond.

Live Science

Inner Mongolia China,

In this picture you see a cast of the skeleton of the new raptor dinosaur Linheraptor exquisitus. I discovered the fossil of Linheraptor with Michael Pittman, a graduate student at the University College of London, while we were hunting for fossils in red sandstone rocks in Inner Mongolia, a province in northern China.

Thisiskent

Canterbury England,

WORK on the £11.6 million revamp of Canterbury's prestigious Beaney Institute has ground to a halt because of Roman pornography.

Discover Magazine

A few months ago I blogged a paper in PLoS Biology which suggested that a common Y chromosomal haplogroup, in fact the most common in Europe and at modal frequency along the Atlantic fringe, is not pre Neolithic. Rather their analysis of the data implied that the European variants were derived from an Anatolian variant.

Al Ahram Weekly

Fayoum Egypt,

Graeco Roman tombs, an intact coffin, Ptolemaic coins and whale bones are just some the recent discoveries made by Egyptians working in Lower Egypt, Nevine El Aref reports

Penn Current

Laikipia Kenya,

For the first time ever, work by researchers with Penn Museum's archaeological excavation at the Laikipia Archaeological Project in north central Kenya is being chronicled in a blog, as well as in photos and film.

Azzaman

Dhiqar Iraq,

Iraqi archaeologists have received 13 artifacts dating to the Third Dynasty of Ur, which flourished in southern Iraq more than 4,000 years ago.

EurekAlert

Alaska USA,

New research indicates that one of the largest fresh water floods in Earth's history happened about 17,000 years ago and inundated a large area of Alaska that is now occupied in part by the city of Wasilla, widely known because of the 2008 presidential campaign.