Read more about the article How Christian Crusaders Were Given The Finger By Jerusalem’s Defenders
Photo shows the carved hand on the moat wall in the Old City of Jerusalem, Israel, undated. Archaeologists discovered the remains of a moat and a mysterious hand imprint outside the walls of Jerusalem’s Old City. (Yoli Schwartz, Israel Antiquities Authority/Newsflash)

How Christian Crusaders Were Given The Finger By Jerusalem’s Defenders

At first glance, it seems like the touch of ancient history reaching out to the future from the 1,000-year-old walls built in Jerusalem to defy the Crusaders. A handprint left…

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Read more about the article Mystery Of Hundreds Of Wild Ducks Found Frozen In Ice
Ruddy shelducks lie dead on the ice of the Hun River in Shenyang, Liaoning in China, undated. They are suspected of being poisoned. (lnysdwbh/AsiaWire)

Mystery Of Hundreds Of Wild Ducks Found Frozen In Ice

Baffled wildlife officials in China are investigating how hundreds of wild ducks were found dead in a frozen river when they should have been flying south for the winter. The…

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Read more about the article Police Seize Car With Eight Migrants Crammed In Back
Image shows eight Kurdish migrants crammed in the backseat of a car, undated photo. The 48-year-old smuggler was temporary arrested in Bavaria, Germany on Monday, Oct. 24, 2022. (Bundespolizei/Newsflash)

Police Seize Car With Eight Migrants Crammed In Back

Baffled police arrested a driver in Germany after they stopped his car on an autobahn and found eight illegal migrants crammed into the back seat. The Kurdish migrants told police…

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Read more about the article Farmers Appeal Fine For Calf’s Loud Mooing
Photo shows the cow Carminathe whose owner received a fine of three hundred euros because of it mooing too loud in Siero, Asturias, in northern Spain, undated photo. The moos reportedly reached 74 decibels, when the noise law established a maximum of 55. (Newsflash)

Farmers Appeal Fine For Calf’s Loud Mooing

Baffled farmers are appealing a EUR-300 fine imposed on a calf's for mooing too loudly. A neighbour in Siero, Asturias Region, north-western Spain had complained to local councillors last year…

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Read more about the article Firefighters Save Bear Trapped Up 50ft Tree
West Metro Fire Rescue and Colorado Parks and Wildlife rescue a bear hanging on a tree in Littleton, Colorado, the USA on Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022. After the rescue, the bear was relocated to an area that is more bear appropriate. (West Metro Fire Rescue/Newsflash)

Firefighters Save Bear Trapped Up 50ft Tree

Baffled firefighters in Colorado had to use a hydraulic platform to rescue a bear that had somehow got stuck in a 50-foot-high treetop. The bear had been hanging around suburban…

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Read more about the article Baffled Customs Officers Find Endangered Tortoise Skeleton In Its Shell Shipped From Switzerland As Home Decoration
The skeletonised tortoise listed by the IUCN as 'vulnerable' which was found by customs officers in the city of Augsburg in Germany. (Hauptzollamt Augsburg/Newsflash)

Baffled Customs Officers Find Endangered Tortoise Skeleton In Its Shell Shipped From Switzerland As Home Decoration

German customs officers have seized a protected tortoise skeleton along with its shell that was shipped from Switzerland to Germany as a home decoration. The officials at the Donauwoerth Customs…

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