Red-faced engineers have confessed to dumping 3,000 tonnes of rock contaminated with poisonous arsenic into one of the world's greatest beauty spots. The rock, from a new tube train tunnel…
The world’s fattest cat which died just weeks after going to a feline fat camp to shed some weight was killed by crippling heart disease caused by his weight, it…
A massive 69-kilogramme emerald the size of a telly is to go under the hammer with an expected sale price of a breathtaking GBP 130 million. The raw uncut stone…
An SS death camp guard dubbed the last Nazi should stand trial accused of murdering 3,300 Holocaust victims, high court judges have ruled. Gregor Formanek, now 100, had successfully appealed…
This is the five gold blings moment the world's most expensive Christmas tree of this year is put on a show - made of EUR 5.2 million worth of solid…
A canvas painted completely white by modern art maestro Robert Ryman is to go under the hammer valued at over GBP 1.2 million. The 1970 minimal masterpiece is titled 'General…
A saintly statue showing the baby Jesus with his grandmother and mum has been miraculously returned to a church more than 50 years after it was stolen. The 15th-century masterpiece…
This is the howl they get there moment when astonished customs inspectors pull a pair of stuffed coyotes out of packing cases. Officials at Bogota's El Dorado International Airport in…
A castle said to have inspired the Brothers Grimm's Sleeping Beauty fairytale is under siege from a modern-day foe as builders start to surround it with a forest of wind…
Horrified Yule lovers have been shocked by the just cone't-believe it unveiling of a city's 150-foot-high Christmas tree that looks exactly like a giant traffic cone. Dortmund, in western Germany,…