Health officials in Germany have incinerated more than 17 million expired COVID-19 masks. The unused medical masks - bought in the first months of the pandemic - were reportedly destroyed…
A Nazi World War II treasure map showing the site of buried chests of gold and jewels has been made public by officials in the Netherlands. The seven chests are…
Traffic police who pulled over a couple for a driving offence were astonished when they found a live tiger in their boot. Public Security Department officials in El Marques, Queretaro…
A three-year-old boy was stung to death by a swarm of killer bees after disturbing a nest outside the family home. The agonising attack happened when victim Marcos Suarez Medina…
Baffled wildlife officials in China are investigating how hundreds of wild ducks were found dead in a frozen river when they should have been flying south for the winter. The…
Egypt has returned nearly 200 ancient coins to their modern homelands after they were seized by officials being trafficked into the country. Envoys from Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and China…
These snaps show how officials in Mexico seized nearly 700 lb of fentanyl hidden inside coconuts bound for the US. Picture shows coconuts with fentanyl pills hidden inside. (FGR/Newsflash) Fentanyl…
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…
Officials in Israel busted three looters digging for treasure in an ancient Ottoman well. Inspectors from Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) Antiquities Theft Prevention Unit caught the robbers red-handed as they…
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Animal welfare officials in Colombia have begun giving pigeons vasectomies as a humane way to keep numbers down in the capital Bogota. The Institute for the Protection…