Fancy an extra special cuppa? Well, why not head to a city in Eastern China where local residents welcomed a giant tea pot-shaped building. The huge teapot is about as high as a 10-storey building and was designed to be a sales office by a real estate developer in Wuxi, becoming an impressive landmark for the city. “I felt it looked like […]
Rolling in over Sydney Harbour, a storm befitting the word menacing, swallowing up the light and creating a dark sky full of rain interrupted by flashes of lightning. This wasn’t a scene out of a movie but Wednesday. It’s hard to believe that the morning had been the sunniest and warmest that week according to meteorologists. […]
It’s the hand shape that got Nathan Entingh suspended from school. Making his hand look like a gun has cost him three days in class. His dad Paul says it’s crazy. “Why his punishment was this excessive.” Ten-year-old Nathan is now learning at home until he’s allowed to go back. The principal at Devonshire Alternative Elementary has warned students before […]
It could be seen as a massive waste of fruit, but in the Northern Italian town of Ivrea, it’s tradition. The Battle of the Oranges is every year, and sees people dress up in medieval costumes, some giving out medieval cries. Legend has it that back in the 12th century, the daughter of a local miller rejected […]
A group of amateur scientists have launched a pastry into the stratosphere. Why they did it? No one knows. But it has captured some dazzling and bizarre images of the dessert flying far above the Earth. The fake pastry treat was stuck to a home-made spacecraft called the ‘Cannolo Transporter’. This was then attached to a large helium-filled balloon and released […]
Archeologists in Mexico made an exciting discovery this week, after uncovering a 1,500 year-old pre-Hispanic shaft tomb on a plot of land in the state of Colima. The tomb is a deep rectangular structure and inside was a sculpture of a long-faced shaman believed to be guarding the entrance. Shaman statues such as this are generally believed to have […]
Scouring the seas around Malaysia and south of Vietnam for anything to provide clues to the whereabouts of a jetliner. The search and rescue effort is big, the area hundreds of miles wide. More than 20 aircraft and 40 ships from at least 10 countries are involved, but nothing as yet. There were hopes of a breakthrough on […]
A school in Maryland had an unexpected break-in on Tuesday, as a gang of deer crashed through the doors and ran around the halls. This time-lapsed surveillance footage, released by Anne Arundel County Public Schools, shows the three deer entering the middle school in Lothian. Two dogs then came through the broken door and chased the deer. […]
It could have been a textbook landing, if not for the approaching Cessna plane. Inches from the ground, this skydiver remains in the air for a little longer than planned, jerked around after the plane became entangled in the strings of John Frost’s parachute. As the plane spectacularly crashes on its nose, the skydiver’s last moments in the air are […]
It’s not your average crime, but a US family was forced to call for help after their 22-pound (10 kg) Himalayan cat held them hostage. Lee Palmer phoned the police after the angry cat scratched his seven-month-old baby, trapping them inside a bedroom. “911.” “Yeah, hi. I have a kind of a particular emergency here. […]