Chinese frontier guards have saved an injured snow leopard that was trapped in a coal mine. Upon finding the leopard stuck in a drainage tank, the guards sought help from their nearby animal husbandry department. With joint efforts, rescuers pulled the leopard out of the water using a fishing net. One of the guards described how they found the animal struggling in the […]
Is it a bird? is it a plane? No, these are actual people flying through the skies of New York City! On Sunday morning, four members of an aerial sports team used wingsuits to fly over the Manhattan skyline. Looking a little more like flying squirrels than flying humans in their special jumpsuits that combine skydiving […]
A woman who was kidnapped 10 years ago and forced to marry her captor has been found in California. The woman, who has not been named, was just 15 when she disappeared and was reported missing in August 2004 near southeast Los Angeles. She contacted police on Tuesday and told detectives she was taken from her home […]
A school bus dramatically caught on fire on a busy highway in Minnesota, but luckily no children were on board. The bus reportedly started smoking then burst into flames near interstate 94 and the driver was able to pull over and exit before the entire vehicle was engulfed in flames. At one point, the bus rolled dangerously close to […]
More than 25,000 people have been evacuated from their homes in Serbia and Bosnia in the worst floods to hit the Balkans in more than a century. At least 37 people have drowned or been killed in landslides in the two nations, as heavy rainfall submerged towns in water, destroying homes and roadways. Residents near the Serbian […]
A student was left unconscious in Central London when a man hugged him to steal his £5,000 Rolex watch from his wrist. This dramatic CCTV footage shows the moment a man approached the victim, put his arms around his throat and squeezed so tight he passed out. The 24-year-old fell to the ground and lost consciousness for […]
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s a man with a jetpack soaring around the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC. The demonstration shows a man blasting off inside the Ronald Reagan Building with the help of a hydrogen and nitrogen-powered jetpack. The event, now in its second year, is part of the Smithsonian magazine’s The Future […]
Palaeontologists in Argentina unearth what they say is the remains of one of the world’s largest dinosaurs. “This is the largest femur that is known from any animal that has walked on earth. It is very important, not only because of the size, but also because of the amount of bones that we are finding of these gigantic […]
“I’m very well f****d. I fell down a hole. Thankfully, I didn’t keep falling that way. I got trapped here instead, on this ledge. My arm, I can’t use.” An American climber who fell into a crevasse during an expedition on a Himalayan mountain managed to crawl out alive, using only an ice axe. John All, who filmed […]
Hungary has managed to set a new world record by building the highest Lego tower ever. Construction of the 36-metre Lego tower began on Wednesday, with several school children taking part. The aim was to break the current US record of 34.43 metres. Officials from the Guinness World Record company arrived in Budapest on Saturday […]