Why West is not always best

Mobile phones fitted to trees in an attempt to tackle illegal logging and deforestation

20-year-old man said to have fallen 100 metres from Wentworth Falls in New South Wales

Amazon.co.uk is coming to a convenience store near you. The online retail giant has been rolling out its self-service delivery lockers across Britain's supermarkets, train stations and newsagents since last September.

Room Service: Sugar Beach, A Viceroy Resort Saint Lucia

With worldwide box-office returns of almost $2.8bn, James Cameron's Avatar is by some distance the highest-grossing film of all time, which may explain why so many people are keen to take credit for it.

Director hits back after being sued for massive slice of $3bn profits from hit movie

Why go in 2013? A world of wild wonders

Sting has moved the location of his "Back to Bass Tour" concert in the Philippines following a petition by environmentalists who said the original venue is owned by a conglomerate that plans to uproot 182 trees for a parking lot and mall expansion in a northern mountain city.

Your chance to enter the UK's biggest amateur travel photography competition

Aquarium staff have installed CCTV after they say a visitor attempted to make off with a stingray.

Outside destruction is threatening lush reserves designed to protect world's richest biodiversity

Tropical retreat

If you've ever seen large-scale deforestation, especially of the rainforest, and seen it close up when it's just happened, you feel you're in the aftermath of an armoured battle. The scale of the destruction stuns you: cleared ground which seems to be everywhere smoking, burning tree stumps flickering like huge candles. It feels as if some giant beast has torn off a great lump of the landscape and savagely consumed it, leaving bits of it bleeding behind.