A second elephant has died of a lethal strain of herpes just days after her younger brother was killed by the virus in a Swiss zoo. Omysha died on 10th July aged eight, just days after being allowed into an enclosure with her brother Umesh's body to mourn him. Keepers…
A five-year-old child has died in Brazil after being stung by a scorpion, despite being given an anti-scorpion serum. The incident took place in the town of Valparaiso, which is located in the state of Sao Paulo in south-eastern Brazil, on Wednesday 15th December. Young Felipe Barbosa Francisco was stung…
An Austrian animal charity has had to buy special fridges to keep starving bats in hibernation and stop pregnant females from giving birth after hundreds of them were trapped in the roof of a skyscraper. Hundreds of the rare, carnivorous greater noctule bats (Nyctalus lasiopterus) had travelled to Austria from…
Jailbird fathers unable to spend time with their kids over Christmas are being given the chance to record audiobooks so that they can read their children a festive bedtime story during the pandemic. The bedtime story project is being organised by the JVA prison in Freiburg in Germany. The initiative…
A Palestinian man scaled a hospital wall everyday to sit outside his mother’s window and spend time with her shortly before she died. The incident took place in Hebron, a Palestinian city in the southern West Bank, when Jihad Al-Suwaiti, 30, was spotted scaling the hospital wall every day while…
This incredible close-up footage shows how visitors can now feed the giraffes at the world's oldest zoo thanks to an elevated platform that has been set up so people can spend time with them at eye level. The footage was made available to Newsflash by Schoenbrunn Zoo, the self-proclaimed world's…
A mum who wanted her spotty son to stop playing computer games and find a girlfriend has narrowly avoided jail after stealing thousands from her employer to spend on expensive acne creams. According to the 40 year old woman, the money she stole from her employer did the trick, and…
Internet addicts who spend several hours a day on their phones can get back to reality by using this ‘offline’ chair that blocks web access which has been created by a young Polish designer who studied in the UK. Agata Nowak, 28, started the project back in 2015 when the…
The Icelandic capital Reykjavik’s plan to spend almost a million GBP to plant two living palm trees needing expensive lights and heating to keep them alive in the freezing climate has been slammed by the opposition party. The palm trees will be out of their element in Iceland where there…