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…
An artist who turned his grandmother's grave into a tribute for Mexico's Day of the Dead has become a viral hit on social media. Luis Francisco Novelo Braga, from Yucatan…
A museum has opened the world's first-ever large-scale exhibition dedicated to breathing, including a special tribute to George Floyd. A tribute to Floyd will show how his last words "I…
A hero pup that took on a lethal coral snake in a fight to save its family has died after being bitten in the struggle. Brave Nachito killed the highly…