The Bristol Zoo in England gets an adorable new hippo... a record-breaking elephant parade in Thailand... and Christmas comes early for one happy Wisconsin polar bear. Gavino Garay reports.
Pageant judges have crowned a new winner of Zimbabwe's fourth annual "Mister Ugly" contest - upsetting supporters of the crowd favourite and prompting rioting at the event. Judges on Saturday chose 42-year-old Mison Sere, citing his numerous missing...
Former professional skater Tony Hawk is the first person ever to take on a horizontal loop. Although the loop was his own creation, the 47-year-old American says in a YouTube video by Sony that he had no idea what he was doing. Hawk, who started...
Colin Furze, a self-acclaimed garage inventor from Stamford, England, built the “ultimate man cave and survival cell” in his backyard. The three-metre deep ‘apocalyptic bunker’ measures five by six metres and is accessed via a hidden hatch in his shed.
Couples are happiest when they have sex once a week, a study has found. The findings challenge the popular notion that when it comes to sex, the more you have the better. Scientists analysed data collected at three time points over 14 years from more...
Two Indonesian newlyweds have been arrested on suspicion of plotting to kill a man the woman said had raped her a week before her marriage. Rudi Effendi and his wife Nuriah also ate the victim's genitals after the man was killed, police said. The...
A 54-year-old man in central China has turned his passion for chillies into a profession. Li Youngzhi eats dried chillies and fresh chillies. He eats chillies with his meals. He eats chillies on their own. And in the morning as he brushes his teeth,...
Smosh, a YouTube duo with over 21 million subscribers, felt like they were having the worst interview ever when Hunger Games actress Jennifer Lawrence did not cooperate and walked away angrily. But it turned out that the actress was pranking them with...
Colourful hot air balloons floated above crowds at the 14th annual International Hot Air Balloon Festival in Leon, Guanajuato in central Mexico on Sunday. The four-day event features hot air balloon rides, musical performances, expositions and other...
The US government is opposing imprisoned whistleblower Chelsea Manning's request to grow her hair long. The transgender former Army intelligence officer made the request as part of a lawsuit in a court in Washington. Gender-appropriate grooming is part...
A California police officer made a traffic stop - but wrote no ticket as the car had no driver. The officer pulled over a Google self-driving car that was being tested on local roads on Thursday, Mountain View police said. He noticed the car going a...
A US astronaut played bagpipes on the International Space Station last Saturday as a tribute to a colleague who died. Astronaut Kjell Lindgren played "Amazing Grace" on a custom-made set of bagpipes. The pipes were made out of plastic making them...
A retired garage owner has been reunited with a car he fell in love with 43 years ago - after his son unwittingly bought it at auction. John Edwards, 81, sold the 1972 Saab 96 from new for £1,023 when he was director of Westbury Garage in Shrewsbury,...
Students at a university in Japan take steps to perfect their precision walking routine. Julie Noce reports.
From a dog skate-boarding through a tunnel of human legs to a man holding lit candles in his mouth, people around the world have been marking Guinness World Records Day with a range of quirky feats. From the young to the old, some 650,000 hopefuls were...
Over the past few years the town of Epecuen, located 550 km southwest of Buenos Aires, has been attracting tourists with its eerie apocalyptic atmosphere after a flood submerged it in salt water for more than two decades. Originally a busy lakeside...
Cockroaches "turbocharge" their mandibles when chewing through tough material to generate a bite force 50 times greater than their own body weight, scientists have discovered. A special set of "slow twitch" muscle fibres that take time to build up...
An assistant professor of mass media joined a group of students from the University of Missouri as they tried to block a student reporter from filming a tent city that was part of an on-campus protest last Monday. The university is the largest and...
Cheese imports are on the rise in South Korea where consumers are incorporating the dairy product into more and more of their own dishes. Julie Noce reports.
A talented baker has cooked up top prize in a competition after creating a life-sized cake of young royal Prince George. The cake, which stands 0.9m tall, won the top Gold award at the Cake International event held at Birmingham's NEC this...
The licence plates that were on the limousine carrying president John F Kennedy when he was assassinated in Dallas have sold at auction for 100,000 US dollars. The plates sold for well over the initial bid of 40,000 US dollars, said Noah Fleisher, from...
Irish women are tweeting details of their periods to Prime Minister Enda Kenny to help publicise a campaign to repeal restrictive abortion laws. Abortion is a divisive issue in Ireland where, after large street protests from both sides of the debate, a...
A Fortingall Yew tree standing in a church yard in Perthshire, Scotland, has been estimated to be male for 5,000 years because it produces pollen. Yet, this year three red berries were spotted growing on its branches, which means that at least part of...
Finland is launching a series of national emojis that include people sweating in saunas, classic Nokia phones and heavy metal head-bangers. Petra Theman, from the Finnish Foreign Ministry, said the emojis will be released as a way to promote the...
What temperature to oven cook a chicken and requests for taxi numbers are just some of the 999 "emergency" calls a UK police force has received. Cumbria Police has since launched a campaign to raise awareness of the different policing services...
Selected items from Margaret Thatcher's wardrobe are to be auctioned off as part of a sale of her personal effects. Clothes, jewellery and mementoes - including her red leather despatch box - belonging to the former prime minister are being put up for...
An artist from Taiwan collected used mobile phones for a project intended to draw attention to recycling garbage into modern art. Julie Noce reports.
The crew at the International Space Station is celebrating an important milestone in space exploration. Today marks the 15 year anniversary of human occupancy on the ISS. The crew held a news conference to talk about the significance of spending that...
A tiger has bitten an apparently drunk woman who broke into a zoo to pet a big cat, US police said. The 33-year-old woman suffered a severe hand injury in the incident at the Omaha zoo early on Sunday, police said. Officers were called to the Creighton...
Two American friends took their Halloween trick-or-treating to the next level. They went to their neighbours’ houses dressed up like old ladies opening a door. The result? A lot of confused people who suddenly became trick-or-treaters themselves. The...
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