A Swiss pilot and explorer is attempting to set a new 10,000-metre flight record with a solar and electric plane, hoping to fly as high as commercial airliners. Pilot Raphael…
A long-forgotten potato left in a kitchen for months astonished a homeowner in China by sending out shoots that took over the room. The super spud sprouted at Mr Wang's…
It is a tall order for any airline. But when the world's tallest woman needed to fly home to Turkey from a trip to America, they rebuilt the plane around…
A huge haul of about 2.6 tonnes of rubbish - most of it plastic - has been removed from the Galapagos Islands by volunteers. The coastal clean-up trip - supervised…
A four-year-old boy has been left with his mother dead and his father injured after their helicopter slammed into a mountain peak. The couple had been on a pleasure trip…
WARNING: GRAPHIC AND DISTRESSING CONTENT Horses bought at auction in Texas are being butchered in Mexico before being sold in food products to consumers around the world, as these images…
A school field trip to a small town outside of Tel Aviv has led to the discovery of a 3000-year-old scarab seal that was picked up off the ground after…
A new dad has been apparently shot dead by his pet dog while he was packing up after a hunting trip. As he put his still-loaded shotgun in his car…
A horrified grandpa got home from a day out with his 11-year-old grandson only to find he had left him behind in a motorway service station loo. The pair had…
A mum of one died in a freak accident when she fell from a mountain in Peru on a hike to see a spectacular sunrise. Tragic holidaymaker Maria Lucia 'Malu'…