A new study has revealed that birdsong can boost mental health and have a positive effect on a person's mood and cognition. The study - of nearly 300 subjects - shows that while harsh sounds like traffic noise can worsen our mood, birdsong can relieve anxiety and paranoid thoughts. Newsflash…
Surgeons have removed an astonishing 46-kilogramme tumour from a woman who thought she'd just been putting on weight. The tumour - about the same weight as a small person - was cut out during an emergency op on the 45-year-old patient, who is just 1.45 metres (4'9") tall. Before the…
A new study claims that early childhood experiences can change a person's brain structure long-term and in irreversible ways - even if the brain heals. Professor Cordula Hoelig, a psychologist and neuroscientist, and a researcher at the University of Hamburg in Germany, worked with the LV Prasad Eye Institute in…
An allegedly 121-year-old woman has been 'discovered' after medics were called in to treat her - and it is now believed she may be the world's oldest living person. Elderly Maria Gomes dos Reis was found by authorities in Bom Jesus da Lapa, north-eastern Brazil, after she fell ill and…
Turkish cops have seized 102 grammes of highly radioactive Californium from a man trying to sell it on for GBP 380,000. The incident took place in the town of Turgutreis, in the district of Akdeniz, in the southern Turkish province of Mersin. During the arrest, the police seized 102 grammes…
This is the moment the two cute sugar gliders, which are TikTok sensation, cuddle, fly back to their owner and eat from a cup. The 22-year old David Ahlzadeh Jr. hails from West Deptford Township in the U.S. state of New Jersey and regularly posts videos of the two sugar…
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 severed by an unknown person. Rescue dog Monika was reportedly lying in the snow for two weeks without any of…
A gran has gone to court to legally change her grandson's name from Lucifer after his dad killed his mum in an axe attack and was later found dead himself. Little Lucifer's unnamed nan went to court in the municipality of Nova Olinda in the north-eastern Brazilian state of Ceara…
A famous French-Swiss photographer has died after he collapsed on a street in Paris and no one helped for 10 hours until, finally, a homeless person called the fire brigade. Rene Robert, 85, a French-Swiss photographer who made his mark photographing flamenco dancers and musicians over the last 50 years,…
Customs officers at Duesseldorf Airport have seized a skinned and roasted protected pangolin that a woman from Ghana was planning to eat. The incident took place at Duesseldorf Airport, which is located in the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, on 12th January 2022, but the information has just been…