Artist assistants check a digital print out of 3,604 cups of coffee which are made into a giant Mona Lisa  in Sydney.

An experimental antibody treatment helped rabbits and monkeys survive a deadly dose of anthrax bacteria and proved safe in humans. The treatment, ABthrax or raxibacumab, works by preventing toxins produced by anthrax bacteria from causing cell damage and death.

Putting their own spin on Barack Obama’s famous election campaign slogan, protestors at this year’s G-8 summit spell out the phrase “Yes We Camp” on a hill near L’Aquila on July 8. Demonstrators used plastic lettering to make their presence felt in the Italian town, which earlier this year was the site of a devastating earthquake.

A cravatted penguin performs in front of visitors at Sunshine International Aquarium in Tokyo, capital of Japan. Performance of penguins here give visitors an agreeable mood in the hot summer.

A tiny frozen microbe has awoken after being trapped under glacial ice in Greenland for more than 120,000 years. The new bacteria species was found nearly three kilometers beneath a Greenland glacier by Dr Jennifer Loveland-Curtze and a team of scientists from Pennsylvania State University in the United States