This is the unbelievable moment four baby quails hatch inside a carton of eggs at a market stall on a staggeringly hot day in Brazil. The adorable chicks can be seen cracking through their shells as they draw their first breaths in 37 degrees Celsius weather in front of a…
Botox jabs to smooth wrinkled foreheads can lift depression and even control dangerous mood swings, a new study in Germany has revealed. The neurotoxin botulinum toxin (BTX) - commonly known as Botox - has been used as a remedy for wrinkles ever since it was first introduced on the market…
A baby called Jesus has been found abandoned in a bag under a car with a note asking people to take care of him. The tot was found by a local and handed over to the police in the city of Lomas de Zamora, in Buenos Aires province, in Argentina,…
A court has allowed a six-year-old girl called Alexa to change her name by deed poll after she was mocked mercilessly by her classmates. Alexa from Goettingen, Lower Saxony, Germany, was baptised just as Amazon's Alexa devices were entering the local tech market. And as the devices' popularity grew, she…
A baby wallaby has escaped from a Lincolnshire petting farm and was last seen hopping towards woodland near the village of Lound. The seven-month-old joey, called Ant, went missing from the Tiny Steps Petting Farm in the village of Thurlby near the market town of Bourne in Lincolnshire sometime between…
Microplastics have been found for the first time in fish from the Peruvian Amazon. The announcement was made by the Peruvian Ministry of the Environment, which detailed an investigation that has identified microplastics in the stomachs of fish from the River Amazon. The fish in whose stomachs the plastic was…
New research has revealed how water once flowed 140 metres uphill to form the "world's largest ice cave" in Austria, which is estimated to be between five and 10 million years old and has been dubbed the "World of the Ice Giants". Eisriesenwelt, which means the "World of the Ice…
This 17-year-old girl has been found alive hidden in her boyfriend’s coal bin after she was reported missing 19 days before. Buse Demirbilek, from the city of Mugla in the south-western Turkish province of the same name, left her home at around 7.30pm on 19th August, telling her parents: “I…
This is the moment a Turkish farmer shows a third horn growing on the ear of a mutant goat he just bought at market. Hamit Duyar, 39, who works in animal husbandry in the northern Turkish province of Zonguldak, said he noticed that the goat had a third horn growing…
Custom officers have seized several dozen illegal ivory jewellery pieces from a German citizen worth up to GBP 4,300 per kilogramme on the black market. Custom officers from the city of Dresden in Germany confiscated about 60 pieces of illegal ivory jewellery from a citizen at the airport in the…