A Brazilian city with fewer than 67,000 inhabitants is building a replica of Paris's iconic Eiffel Tower. The replica - which is currently under construction in Lagoa Santa, Minas Gerais…
A freak low tide in the waterways of Venice has stranded the city's world-famous gondolas and water taxis in a sea of mud. The colourful boats sit abandoned in their…
Chinese archaeologists were abso-loo-tely stunned when they unearthed a 2,400-year-old flush toilet while excavating an ancient city. Dating back to the Qin dinasty (221BC-206BC), it is the first and the…
Revealing bikinis have been banned at a film location made famous by the hit TV series Game of Thrones. City leaders in Split, Croatia - which doubled as the slave…
Thousands of new apartments should be built above fast food restaurants like McDonald's to solve city housing shortages, politicians in Germany have urged. Left-wing members in the capital Berlin say…
A pet pooch helped rescue workers find its owner after he had been missing for several days. Gregorio, 84, had left his home in Moctezuma, north-western Mexico, on Sunday, 27th…
This footage shows how a lioness prowled the streets of a suburban neighbourhood after it escaped from its influencer owner's house. Locals in Alvarado - in Veracruz State, Mexico -…
City officials have felled more than 100 trees so that a colony of lizards can get enough sun, it has emerged. The lizards - common wall lizards, or Podarcis muralis…
The city of Kyoto in Japan is reportedly planning to sell the precious metals found in cremated bodies from things like denture fillings. Most Japanese people are cremated after they…
Archaeologists from the Egyptian Dominican Archaeological Mission have discovered an ancient rock-cut tunnel on the northern coast of Egypt. The Greco-Roman tunnel dating back over 2,000 years measures 1,305 metres…