Astonishing artwork collected by an aristocratic Worcestershire family over hundreds of years will go under the hammer at Christie's. The collection of Lord and Lady Sandys, whose family seat was…
A huge haul of about 2.6 tonnes of rubbish - most of it plastic - has been removed from the Galapagos Islands by volunteers. The coastal clean-up trip - supervised…
An international team of researchers has collected 50,000-year-old ice samples from a depth of 2,651 feet in Antarctica. The extracted ice core samples will reportedly aid the team of experts…
An hours-old baby girl was saved from a stack of rubbish bags about to be collected by bin men after a passing cyclist thought she heard the faint cries of…
This rescue dog in Russia that has been fitted with four pathetic legs is set to start a new life in London after she was left with all four legs…
Strange tastes in Japan that include vending machines selling ladies' knickers and vibrator bars have now been joined by a weird bestseller book - about panda bums. The 64-page book…
An elderly Israeli building manager has burned the rent money she collected from her tenants to a crisp after bleaching the banknotes and putting them in the microwave to kill…
The largest funnel-web spider ever seen by staff at the Australian Reptile Park has been handed in by an anonymous donor so that it can be milked to extract venom…
This image shows the large “wet wipe monster” that was collected from drainage at a beach in the party island of Ibiza which saw 871,000 Brits over nine months last…
Police in Hong Kong have arrested a journalist after he was stopped in a routine search and found to have collected used tear gas cartridges and other used shells for…