A bull gets chased into the sea in Spain, India's homosexuals celebrate, and a Washington, D.C., panda gets a "veggie-sicle" birthday cake in this week's best news photos.

The two-inch-long amphibian was found in a creek near a well-traveled road in the southern United States.

Craters lie deep in shadow as seen in the first pictures from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which will spend about a year scouting out the moon to aid future missions.

A nebula creates a cosmic watercolor, dusty knots form "fireworks" in space, rover drivers get down in the dirt to try to free Spirit, and more among the week's best space pictures.

False turtle flippers, a lifelike eagle beak, and a powerful latex dolphin tail are among the more unusual prosthetics that are giving injured creatures new leases on life.

Two years after most of Russia's geysers were lost in a landslide, a "miracle" geyser has emerged that recycles its own water.

Fossils of a ferocious predator and two giant plant-eaters, named for an Aussie poet and his creations, have been unearthed in the outback, paleontologists say.

Filipino inmates dance to "Thriller," a girl rests 1,400 feet in the air, and an elderly ape has a baby in this week's best news photos.

The Tower of Hercules, a sacred mountain, and royal tombs are among the sites recognized for their universal value to humanity during a 2009 World Heritage Committee session.

Before it reopens on the Fourth of July, get an insider's eye on the Statue of Liberty--the inside of her face, the little-known ladder to the torch, and more.

An Indian Ocean island nation has created three new ocean sanctuaries, including a tropical bay where hundreds of 12-foot manta rays and 40-foot whale sharks feast on swarms of plankton and krill.

See a shadow slicing across Saturn's rings, a gas cloud that acts like a particle accelerator, a NASA "moving van," and more among the week's best space pictures.

From glass pyramids to towers of greenhouses, see some of the concepts that architects have created for vertical farms, a proposed strategy for growing crops year-round at the hearts of urban centers.

The one-acre human-made cave in the Jordan Valley, thought to have begun as a quarry, may later have been converted for other uses, including a monastery or a hideout for persecuted Christians.

The discovery of ten lynx kittens marks the first time newborn lynx have been documented in Colorado since 2006, heartening biologists.