A man has been hailed as a hero after he saved six people when their boat sank in a river but then tragically drowned himself. Ivan Willian Coelho, 36, and…
The oldest man in Japan - who saw the Hiroshima atomic bombing and fought in World War II, has died at the age of 112. Mikizo Ueda, who was also…
A German pensioner discovering a plastic bag packed with precious jewellery and cash in a hedge in his garden has been told by cops that he can keep it all.…
A 96-year-old Holocaust survivor from Ukraine who was in Auschwitz with Anne Frank before being liberated by British troops has said that after surviving Stalin and Hitler, she plans to…
China’s oldest person has died aged 135 in her local township. Alimihan Seyiti, from the township of Komuxerik in Shule County in the north-western Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, died on…
Two German adventurers have become the first people to ever ascend to the top of the 6,465-metre-high Purbung peak in the Himalayas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAIwZDAtlUc @nico.geht.steil/Newsflash Nicolas Scheidtweiler, 45, who hails from…
A Dubai man has set a new Guinness World Record for constructing the world’s largest Arabic ‘dhow’ sailing vessel. Majid Obaid Al Falasi, 52, built the 2,500-tonne wooden vessel in…
Parents of a baby who has a rare and potentially fatal genetic disorder have managed to raise 1.9 million EUR from almost a million SMS donations in just over 24…