Europe

A pair of male king penguins at Berlin Zoo are about to become parents, by adopting an egg abandoned by its mother. Zookeepers said it became clear the male king penguins were a couple within weeks of their arrival from Hamburg this year as they displayed partnership rituals. Ten-year-old Skipper …

You might describe this as the wacky angle to technology but here is a capsule that makes human faeces look like precious gold and make you want to grab and keep them. WeAreFeel, a UK-based supplement subscription company has become very popular online for a bizarre limited-edition multivitamin pill designed …

This is what you could describe as one of the wackiest sports in the world. It is the Dutch sport of Paalzitten or Pole Sitting, which sees competitors literally sitting on wooden poles for dozens of hours, until they surrender to either numbness or boredom. The origin of Paalzitten is …

American basketball player Donell “D.J.” Cooper has been banned from the sport for two years after a urine test found him to be pregnant. Reports have it that the urine sample was for a drug test which Cooper suspected he wasn’t going to pass so he possibly requested his girlfriend …

A desperate lady has proven that necessity is indeed the mother of invention after she chose to ignore men and get married to her dog, a ceremony which was live on Television. Elizabeth Hoad is reported to have revealed that, she had dated 221 different men and got engaged to four …

It was a nightmare for two strangers who missed their flight after they were checked into a hotel to share the night together in a room with only one bed. Jerryne Mahele Nyota of Ottawa said she was shocked when her 71-year-old mother told her that’s what happened after she …

Miejsce Odrzańskie, a small village in southern Poland, near the border with the Czech Republic, is offering to reward the first local family to give birth to a son. None have been born there in the last nine years, and the youngest one that still lives in the village is …

Jennifer Armstrong, a 44-year-old woman from Ireland, is considered by many the country’s most prolific petty criminal, with a record of 648 convictions. Armstrong recently made headlines in her home country, after showing up in front of a judge for trying to steal a bottle of wine while intoxicated just …

Two British backpackers fishing in Australia can consider themselves lucky to be alive after ignorantly playing with a tiny blue-ringed octopus, whose painless bite can kill up to 26 adults in minutes. A viral video posted on a Facebook group for backpackers shows daredevils Ross Saunders and Johnpaul Lennon dangling …

A loyal dog in Greece recently melted the hearts of millions around the world after it was reported that it has spent the last 18 months at a roadside shrine where his owner tragically lost his life in a traffic accident. Nicknamed the “Greek Hachiko” after the legendary Akita Inu …