3,000 people registered their interest in taking part
No evidence of a monster-like Jurassic-era reptile
Case makes headlines around the world
The Bolas de Fuego festival commemorates a volcanic eruption
'Contemptuous'
'The curses and spells used in the books are actual curses and spells'
Just a poultry matter?
Bon Truong told nobody about his win
He was trapped for 25 minutes until firemen arrived
US restaurant chain Popeyes launched a fried chicken sandwich that became so popular the company has run out of stock - leaving would-be consumers crying fowl. On August 12, Popeyes - best known for its Cajun-spiced fried chicken - unveiled its latest...
Pizzeria employee's bags of white powder cause him a slice of trouble
Russia on Thursday unveiled a new spacesuit for a future spaceship, but the design may have to be changed to continue a decades-old tradition: making a stop to pee on the way to the launch. The Sokol-M prototype suit was demonstrated at an airshow...
Tons of tomatoes were hurled
A man gathering firewood in Alaska discovered a bottle with a handwritten message inside wishing the finder "happy sailing" more than 50 years after it was dropped into the sea by a Russian sailor. "Sincere greetings! From the Russian Far East Fleet...
Investigators believe bells are being stolen to be melted down.
A Jamaican national was detained for nearly three months in the United States after bringing in bottles of honey from the Caribbean island that customs agents mistakenly believed to be liquid methamphetamine. Leon Haughton had visited family back in...
Austrian police said Monday they are hunting for thieves who stole over a dozen bells from cows grazing in the west of the country. "Of course people may wonder why someone would steal a cowbell," Bernhard Gruber, a police spokesman from the Tyrol...
More than 180 pigs were killed when a truck that was transporting them to the slaughterhouse overturned at the weekend in northeastern France, rescuers said Monday. "A heavy goods vehicle (HGV) which was transporting 205 pigs overturned" at a...
The Women's Rugby World Cup in 2017 will be the last to bear that title with World Rugby announcing on Wednesday they are adopting a policy of gender neutrality for their tournaments. In what they say is "a first for a major sporting federation" the...
Did Donald Trump really have lunch with someone impersonating France's President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday? No - but the US president did accidentally tweet that he had. "Just had lunch with French President @EmanuelMacrone. Many good things are...
Military officials look for tech-savvy recruits at a video games convention
An invitation to the gilded Elysee palace of France's president in Paris usually prompts a sense of decorum and formality in a visitor of any rank. But not Britain's charismatic - and sometimes controversial - new Prime Minister Boris Johnson. During...
More than 270 inmates - including convicted murderers - who bolted from a prison torched during violent riots in Indonesia's Papua region have returned to finish their sentences, a corrections official said Friday. The convicts are even helping build a...
Albanian officials on Wednesday razed a beachfront restaurant whose owner was captured on camera attacking a car rented by Spanish tourists, as the country scrambles to clean up its reputation as a burgeoning holiday destination. The incident, filmed...
Social media users are fuelling a burgeoning appetite for acquiring wild otters and other endangered animals as pets, conservationists say, warning the trend could push species towards extinction. Popular Instagrammers posting selfies with their pet...
Only five other people live in Galina Yermolova's tiny Siberian village Pikhtovoye, isolated from the world by the dense taiga - swampy coniferous forest - and a swamp. One of the other people is her husband. Every week, she travels 16 kilometres...
Thousands of people have signed up on Facebook to a Dutch beach party for Brexit, featuring food from across the European Union to mark Britain's departure. Created by media worker Ron Toekook, the event calls for partygoers to meet at the seaside...
Plays dead and gets away with it
Nine hours after he first nodded off, the Italian coast guard finally found him
Guido Camia can show you how to light fires using just a flintstone, survive on a diet of insects and build a forest shelter. The 37-year-old, who originally trained to be a patisserie chef, now makes a living offering "Neanderthal" survival courses...
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