By Elijah Hagler Scientists inspired by traditional folk remedies in Italy have developed a new molecule that neutralises the drug-resistant disease, MRSA. Researchers from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, went back to old texts from southern Italy which praised the ability of the chestnut leaf to cure various ailments and…
A Polish couple are being prosecuted for animal abuse after refusing to feed their pet dog and allowing it to shrink down to skin and bones at around half the weight it should be. The poor pooch, named Toldi, reportedly weighed under 12 kilogrammes (26 lbs) when it was rescued…
This is the incredible moment of an eruption at a volcanic crater in Hawaii which creates a pool of hot lava as experts now fear the health risks it poses. The shocking footage was recorded at the active shield volcano of Kilauea located in the resort islands of Hawaii in…
When Central European News was launched I spent some time sending stories into the void before our small agency finally hit global recognition thanks to Fucking, an Austrian town just north of Salzburg, and a godsend to subs everywhere.Locals were for some reason surprised to find US servicemen had been…
This is the moment an Australian firefighter cuts a hole in a wall and pulls out her cute fluffy kitten trapped behind it. The incident was filmed in the suburb of Bankstown in the city of Sydney located in the Australian state of New South Wales, and the footage was…
A team of archaeologists has discovered an entire village of invading Merovingian warriors from the sixth and seventh centuries in France in what has been described as "a unique find". The site is believed to have been a hub of military, political and religious power for at least 200 years,…
This is the adorable moment animals in a Dutch zoo enjoy fruit ice cream to cool off during a heatwave. The footage, posted by ZooParc Overloon, a zoo in the North Brabant province in the south of the Netherlands on the outskirts of Peel, shows otters and spider monkeys eating…
This is the adorable moment monkeys at London Zoo lick icy treats to keep themselves cool amid soaring temperatures. Footage posted by Zoological Society of London (ZSL) London Zoo on social media shows squirrel monkeys jumping between different frozen blocks of tea and sometimes squabbling with each other to get…
This is the dramatic moment Chinese firemen rescue three tourists who were stranded and threatened with being washed away when the mountain road they were travelling on turned into a raging torrent. The three tourists decided to make a trip to Pan'an County in Jinhua City in eastern China's Zhejiang…
An incredible sequence of images showing a wildcat mother keeping a wolf at bay to protect her kittens has been caught on camera apparently for the first time. The standoff took place in the Colbitz - Letzlinger Heide, which is a heather area between the regions of Altmark and Elbe-Boerde-Heide,…