Just past teatime in London today (or about 10 a.m. Eastern time), Elizabeth II will become the oldest monarch in Britain’s history, surpassing Victoria, who was 81 years, 7 months and 29 days old when she died in 1901. picked by mandolinorange 7 months ago

The first fossil tracks belonging to large, carnivorous dinosaurs have been discovered in Victoria, Australia, by paleontologists. The tracks are especially significant for showing that large dinosaurs were living in a polar environment during the Cretaceous Period, when Australia was still joined to Antarctica and close to the South Pole. picked by AutumnLotus 9 months ago

Devil’s Pool is a natural rock pool at the very top of the Victoria Falls, at Zimbabwe, with a height of about 100 metres, where you can swim safely and take pictures. picked by wildminou 6 months ago

Victoria Lasiter beat odds of 64 million to one
A mother of triplets has beaten odds of 64 million to one by giving birth to her SECOND naturally conceived set of triplets. picked by xiatethebish 8 months ago

A giant squid has been found off Portland in Victoria's south-west.

The six-metre long, 230-kilogram squid was still alive when it was netted by commercial fishermen last night. picked by AutumnLotus 2 months ago

Crayfish body fossils and burrows discovered in Victoria, Australia, have provided the first physical evidence that crayfish existed on the continent as far back as the Mesozoic Era, says Emory University paleontologist Anthony Martin, who headed up a study on the finds. picked by AutumnLotus 5 months ago

In a remote region of Romania, in the delicately spired summer castle of Pelisor, once lived the beloved “Saint Queen” Marie, granddaughter of Queen Victoria. Her favorite room was the lushly ornate Gold Salon and this is the room that she chose to lavish with her mystical violet perfume both while alive, and long after she was dead. picked by DrNothing 9 months ago

Some people have a dress down day at work. Victoria Sinclair has dress off day -- every day.

See more photos here. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

It's back, the yearly Victoria's Secret Fantasy Bra. This years version is $6.5 million and weighs 800 carats made up of 2000 diamonds. picked by musicgirldani 2 years ago

CSIRO scientists in Victoria are aiming to be the first in the world to develop a genetically modified chicken immune to the killer bird flu. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Australians, long regarded as a nation of beer drinkers rivalled only by the Germans, seem to be turning soft, or sober. After 113 years, the country's biggest selling beer, Victoria Bitter, or VB, is to be produced in a mid-strength version to keep pace with the country's fast-changing beer tastes. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Firefighters and military from around Australia and New Zealand have been called in to help battle 18 different fires raging across Victoria before windy weekend conditions threaten to combine bushfires into a single conflagration. picked by teaya21 2 years ago

Katie Holmes is to 'star as Victoria Beckham in a new biopic of David Beckham'? They are all really good friends so even though poor Tom can't look like Beckham, perhaps Katie can fill Posh Spice's shoes. picked by musicgirldani 2 years ago

The crater is about 60 metres deep, allowing a rover to "dig" deeper into the ground – and into Mars's past – than ever before. "We're going to see more of the history of Mars here than we've seen anywhere else," Squyres says. picked by DrNothing 1 year ago

Every man in the world: Let me be the judge of that. picked by icepigs 2 years ago

In the next week or so, Opportunity will reach the edge of Victoria Crater after about 950 sols on Mars. Expect "the coolest picture of the surface of Mars you’ve ever seen,” says lead scientist Steve Squyres. picked by Fanatic 2 years ago

A round-the-clock curfew would restrict thousands of cats to their own homes under a draft plan proposed by a Victorian council. picked by AutumnLotus 3 months ago

A detailed, colorized pan of the interior of Victoria crater was created by merging the navigation camera's B&W photos, and published in this week's Aviation Week. This demonstrates the benefits of the JPL rover team's decision to make the raw data from the rovers available to the public in near real time. Click through to see the panorama! (By the way, the far rim of the crater is half a mile... read full post picked by Fanatic 2 years ago

HE had been celebrating the start of the new year which would have culminated in his graduation from school.
But Andrew Farrugia's festive partying came to a brutal end when he was fatally bashed at a cab rank while waiting for a taxi at 3am yesterday. picked by teaya21 2 years ago

An alcoholic nine-year-old boy who waged a two-year crime spree has become Victoria's youngest prisoner. picked by AutumnLotus 12 months ago