A giant statue built to honour a saintly 13-year-old girl macheted to death by a rapist is to be rebuilt after furious followers said it looked like a hatchet faced…
From the streets of Istanbul to the center of my heart — that’s the journey of my beloved Şanslı. I first saw him in the summer of 2021. He was…
Sweethearts who had been married for 64 years died within an hour of each other as they held hands for the last time, their family has revealed. Christian Runggaldier, 89,…
A 107-year-old Italian World War II veteran who fought the Nazis as a resistance fighter and ended up in a Nazi concentration camp has died. Pasquale Gissi, known to locals…
The workmates of the world's oldest salesman spring a surprise party to celebrate his 102nd birthday. Walter Orthmann is down in the Guinness World Records book as the employee with…
News agencies are often seen as stepping stones to bigger careers, but for Shantanu Guha Ray, who had already worked for some of the biggest names in the business, working…
A newly discovered species of ancient giant turtle has been named after Stephen King's fictional character Maturin, a giant turtle who created the universe. The remains of the huge prehistoric…
A life-size plastic statue of KFC's Colonel Sanders has been entombed in a shrine in Japan 39 years after it was thrown in a river by a baseball team's fans.…
Archaeologists have uncovered more than 2,000 ancient mummified ram heads slaughtered in tribute to legendary Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II. The heads were unearthed in Abydos near the temple of the…
A 2,500-year-old tomb with ten mummified crocodiles unearthed near the Nile was probably a tribute to an ancient Egyptian fertility god, experts have revealed. Experts say the mummified reptiles were…