With tubular tongues, western honeybees in Langen, Germany, slurp up water ... forest authorities to go into a local forest and remove a fallen beech tree with an abandoned black woodpecker ...

Germany's Forest Owners' Association says that, for reasons of sustainability, the Christmas tree for the Chancellery is from Brandenburg, the federal state that surrounds the German capital.

Trees dating back almost 6000 years have come to scientists' attention due to ice melting in the Rocky mountains, offering a "time capsule" into the past ...