A 'blasphemous' sculpture of the Virgin Mary showing her with her legs spread open as she gives birth to Jesus has been beheaded in an Austrian cathedral. The artwork showed…
Art experts restoring a cathedral's stained glass windows in Austria were astonished when a local identified five of his ancestors in the artwork. Art historians have been conducting a painstaking…
Little nipper Maria Alice has become a viral sensation after her parents noticed that her early canine teeth made her an undead ringer for a vampire. The 14-month-old tot's fang-like…
Tiny baby tusker is plucked from a monsoon-flooded river that threatens to sweep it away in northern India. The six-week-old junior jumbo had been separated from its mum as it…
A six-year-old art genius who began painting at just 10 months old has amazed critics with his first public exhibition. Bento Benatti fell in love with art as a baby…
An exhausted macaw takes a break from flying to just wing it as it hitches a lift on a cyclist's shoulder. The bird, suffering in a heatwave in Brazil, took…
A 107-year-old Italian World War II veteran who fought the Nazis as a resistance fighter and ended up in a Nazi concentration camp has died. Pasquale Gissi, known to locals…
The oldest zoo in the world will welcome a new panda couple after extending its cooperation with China to keep protecting the rare animals for another decade. The Schoenbrunn Zoo…
A man who bought a painting at a local flea market for a few hundred pounds was stunned to learn it was the work of a famous artist and worth…
China claims submarine probes are being dropped by United States military aircraft into the South China Sea. The allegation was made by Yuyuan Tantian, which is a social media account…