Young martial artists take flight, China’s “quake lake” drains with epic force, thousands of protestors light up the night, and more.

Soaring prices for dairy products are creating an export boom for farmers, but their neighbors are finding that staples like milk are quickly becoming luxury items. Part of Global Food Crisis: A Special News Series.

This weedy sea dragon at the Georgia Aquarium has something to celebrate this Father’s Day. The rare creature is the third of its kind to become pregnant in captivity in the United States, according to aquarium officials. But don’t look for the expectant mom—dads carry the eggs in this family.The aquarium’s sea dragon has about 70 fertilized eggs—which look like small red grapes—attached to his tail. He is expected to give birth in July, said Kerry Gladish, a biologist at the aquarium.Sea dragons, seahorses and pipefish (see photo)are the only species where the male carries the eggs, Gladish said. Sea dragon pregnancies in captivity are rare because researchers don’t know what gets them in the mood to mate.The aquarium recently changed the lighting and thinned out the plants in the sea dragons’ tank to give them room to court each other.The aquarium has seven of the 18-inch (45-centimeter) sea dragons, which resemble Dr. Seuss characters, with long aardvark-like snouts, colorful sea horse bodies and multiple paddle-like fins.During mating, the female lays dozens of eggs and then transfers them to the male’s tail.In the wild, the survival rate for sea dragon babies is low, but in captivity it’s about 60 percent, Gladish said. The fish is on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s list of threatened species, mostly because of pollution and population growth in its native Australia.—Associated Press, Atlanta, GeorgiaCopyright 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

The 40,000-acre (16,000-hectare) blaze spans three counties and is burning through highly flammable peatland inside a wildlife refuge, experts say.