A woman who called to check on her estranged mum after an earthquake in Italy was horrified to discover that she had already been dead for two months. The women had earlier fallen out over a family split but when the daughter could not reach her mother on the phone…
This is the moment a fox is found frozen solid in the standing position after temperatures dropped to minus 20 in the Turkish region. The frozen fox was found outside the city of Erzurum in the north-eastern Turkish province of the same name. The dead animal was apparently looking for…
A dead baby has been found dumped at a recycling centre in Germany. The shocking discovery was made in the city of Halle in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt on 27th December. The police received a phone call from a person who had found the body at the outer fence…
This is the moment a black swan shares its food with a waiting school of ornamental koi carp. The cute scene was filmed in the city of Weihai in the Chinese province of Shandong by a stunned passerby. The man, name not reported, said he was walking around the lake…
Doctors who X-rayed a man complaining of abdominal pains were amazed to discover that he had swallowed an entire mobile phone. Even more surprising, when they quizzed the unnamed man he admitted that he had actually swallowed it half a year previously, and had been too embarrassed to come forward,…
This is the moment Brazilian firefighters rescue a sleepy sloth relaxing on telephone cables. The incident was filmed at a residential complex in the municipality of Bayeux in the Brazilian state of Paraiba. Local residents spotted the sloth hanging on the cables and called the fire department who sent a…
This two-year-old baby girl has tragically died after receiving an electric shock from a mobile phone charger. The incident took place in the municipality of Erere in the north-eastern Brazilian state of Ceara on the afternoon of Monday, 23rd August. Sara Alves de Albuquerque, aged 2, was taken to hospital…
A group of fun-loving people who found a young woman's iPhone left these photos of themselves on the device before handing it in at a lost property office in Japan. The people, seen blowing kisses into the camera and laughing, had found the phone after its owner, a young Japanese…
This is the moment a white woman snatches a phone belonging to a person of colour after he started filming her when she called the police on him because he was stuck in a queue of traffic and unable to reverse so she could park. The incident took place in…
A US hospital worker spoke about holding his mobile phone in front of a dying man so his wife could celebrate their anniversary with him a month early shortly before he died. The couple had apparently been planning anniversary dinner next month, and instead she ended up saying what she…