Dramatic footage of the collapse of a seven-storey building in India. An amateur video captures the terrifying moments as the block simply falls to the ground in a suburb in Mumbai. Scenes of panic as nearby residents flee the scene. Several people are feared trapped under the debris. The building was rendered unsafe and uninhabitable by the local council seven years ago. […]
Now, wouldn’t it be totally amazing if all our teachers did this? Yeah, this is actually happening. A rapping religious studies teacher has made his mark on his Chilean high school students with his unique hip-hop influenced teaching style. After just a year at the Sabina High School, Hans Herrera has engaged his students using rap music. The 26-year-old […]
Thousands of students in Greece have got together to set a Guinness World Record for the largest origami mosaic. Yes, that’s right. More than 18,000 people spent nine hours folding 52,000 tiny pieces of paper into origami flowers, and then used them to create a giant owl. “It was not difficult, but it was of course very tiring to […]
Now, all parents like to treat their kids now and again, but this mother in Colombia has treated her son to extreme lengths. Yeah, meet Santiago! He’s 8 months old and weighs a whopping 44 pounds (20 kilograms). Santiago is now being helped by the Chubby Hearts Foundation and will be provided with treatments for a number of problems caused […]
This surveillance footage shows a transit police officer in Philadelphia being attacked. An unidentified man was removed from a train after threatening to shoot passengers. Because of the man’s strange behaviour, transit police officer Ronald Jones confronted him, but he then pushed Jones to the ground, throwing punches and kicks. The attacker was eventually restrained on the ground with […]
What’s going on here? Oh, it’s only two wild giant pandas wrestling in China. Yeah, the wrestling match between the two pandas was caught on camera set up at a nature reserve in southwest China. The nature reserve had installed a number of cameras recently to observe the wild animals. After collecting and sorting the latest videos […]
A world champion diver has taken his love for leaping to new heights after jumping 38 metres off a treetop into the Amazon River. Colombian Orlando Duque set out in a boat on the Amazon River near the border between Peru, Colombia and Brazil to find a 35-metre tree to make the daring leap. With a few […]
“Can you hear my voice coming through both sides?” “Yes, yes.” A day of significance and emotions come to a head. For 40 years, everything has been silent for Joanne Milne. “It’s alright. It’s a big, big life-changing day today.” “Can you hear your own voice?” “Yes.” “Good.” “Yes, it will do.” She’s been deaf […]
Drivers in Los Angeles were left in a bit of a sticky situation when a truck carrying 42 thousand pounds of honey overturned on Monday afternoon. The accident forced the LA freeway to back up for miles, as four lanes of the road were closed. TV footage shows the sticky load flowing from the truck onto the shoulder of the freeway. […]
“When we were going through the process, there was maybe a 10 percent chance of having twins, so, huh, quite a surprise!” This couple in Texas have just welcomed not just one baby, but five. The newborns Mia, Tessa, Brant, Gracie and Rayleigh were born at 29 weeks through a caesarean section. It took around 24 […]