A religious family has been quizzed by police after they kept praying over a son's decomposing body for three days in an attempt to revive him. Gaston Claudio Chaves, 24,…
Surgeons have removed an astonishing 46-kilogramme tumour from a woman who thought she'd just been putting on weight. The tumour - about the same weight as a small person -…
Starving prisoners at a Nazi death camp ate the body parts of dead inmates to stay alive, a holocaust survivor has told a shocked trial. Prisoners turned to cannibalism on…
One of Germany's oldest beekeepers deliberately gets stung at the beginning of each season, claiming bee venom boosts his body's immune system. Former chemist Heinz Hoffmann, 90, who is the…
A 'synthetic' embryo with a brain and beating heart has been created by British scientists. It features the foundations of all the body's organs - including neural and gut tubes…
A decapitated Egyptian mummy's head discovered in an attic in Kent, in the United Kingdom, has undergone a state-of-the-art CT scan to try and uncover its secrets. The head, which…
A 25-year-old man who disappeared at a traditional German oompah band festival has been found dead in a lake. The young man was named as Tobias Dreiseitel by police and…
A melting Swiss glacier has revealed a human skeleton that could be the remains of a missing German billionaire who went out on a hike and never came back. Karl-Erivan…
A mum of one died in a freak accident when she fell from a mountain in Peru on a hike to see a spectacular sunrise. Tragic holidaymaker Maria Lucia 'Malu'…
A British hiker has died after plunging nearly 100 feet from a mountain in Italy. The 56-year-old woman and her husband had been hiking in the Rosengarten massif in the…