Notoriously prickly customer makes a break for it after escaping from a zoo in Russia. The porcupine, more naturally at home in the Americas, Africa, and Asia, was found padding…
An orangutan has escaped at an Israeli zoo after using a newly planted tree in its enclosure that was damaged by Palestinian rockets, and it had to be tranquilised and…
This is the moment a homeowner narrowly avoids a bicycle falling from the 18th floor of a nearby tower block after a naughty boy who had tripped over it in…
A female hostage who was kidnapped by her ex-partner at the start of the COVID-19 lockdown has been rescued after she wrote an SOS on a banknote used to pay…
A leading member of drug lord Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman’s notorious cartel has reportedly escaped from prison along with two other inmates. Cartel accountant Victor Manuel Felix Beltran, alias ‘El…
Ukrainian officials are investigating claims a 24-year-old man married his 81-year-old disabled cousin in order to escape having to do military service. The man claimed to have developed a strong affection…
A family of four including two small children got the fright of their lives when a huge albino python they had purchased as a pet freed itself from a cardboard…
These images show a duck which was found with its beak cruelly taped shut and string after it was tied up with string after it apparently managed to escape from…
This is the moment a 7.5-tonne runaway circus elephant - Germany's oldest - goes walkabout on a busy road after breaking free. Elephant Gandhi had fled from Circus Afrika which…
Police say they will not press charges against a driver who blocked a pensioner’s car on a level crossing while apparently giving him the middle finger and nearly causing a…