A woman has died in Australia while taking part in a contest to eat as many lamingtons as possible

An Indonesian teenager has described - for the first time - his terrifying swim to safety after a fish leapt out of the sea and speared him through the neck

The 61-year-old had around 24,000 undelivered items from between 2003 and 2019 at his home in Kanagawa, near Tokyo

The couple eloped to marry two years ago and had a three-month-old baby

Switzerland has minted a gold coin so small you’d need to look very closely to see Albert Einstein sticking out his tongue at you

A mutant goat born with a "human-face" is being worshipped as an avatar of God" in a small Indian village

Officials in a Chinese city have apologised for "shaming" people for wearing pyjamas in public

The video clips purportedly show collector Nidhi Nivedita slapping a man and additional collector Priya Verma taking on some men who were part of the crowd

Jackie Hall and her husband John turn sleuths when their grey and white Maine Coon, Ozzy, began spending long periods away from home in west London

When social media users saw pictures uploaded to the popular Sina Weibo microblog by Lu on 17 January, inside the empty site on a clear day, people quickly started asking questions

Police said the newborn had injuries all over his body and were expecting a postmortem report to confirm the exact cause of death

A New Jersey family says they received used diapers from Amazon’s delivery service

Authorities suggest the man may have been planning to extract the venom from the scorpions once in China

Yusaku Maezawa, who recently announced his break-up with a Japanese actress, is accepting applications from “single women aged 20 or over” who want to enjoy life to the fullest

Akbar Akram pleads guilty in Tampa federal court of US on Wednesday to one count of wildlife trafficking in violation of the Lacey Act

Dramatic scenes unfolded in Kochi this morning as two luxury apartment complexes - overlooking Kerala's stunning backwaters

The female cow that was reportedly pregnant, bent both her front legs and refused to walk, apparently with tears in her eyes

The girls immediately applied base makeup, eyebrows, blusher, eye shadow, and eyeliner, and even nail polish with earrings in hospital bed

Finnish scientists producing a protein "from thin air" say it will compete with soya on price within the decade

A seven-year-old girl has undergone surgery to remove a sibling foetus with arms and legs attached to her back

The man who was out on bail after being jailed for committing a human sacrifice has been arrested for killing his 12-year-old sister to appease a Hindu goddess Durga

For the second time in five months, Canadian social media users are obsessing over Justin Trudeau's face

Feral camels in South Australia are set to be killed in a bid to stop them drinking too much water as droughts and fires ravage the country

A magpie has been caught on camera mimicking the sound of a siren after hearing “so…

About 1,000 locals and holidaymakers spend several hours comforting the beached whales on the Coromandel Peninsula in the North Island.

Bkash scammers tricked a tea seller into sending them Tk 65,000 on Thursday night

The flight was cancelled after staff spotted two 1 yuan coins on the ground near one of the plane's jet engines

Groom plays video of his bride in bed with her brother-in-law at their wedding in front of shocked guests'

The suspect was arrested for tampering with physical evidence

Kochaniyan Menon, 66, and Lakshmi Ammal, 65, who tied the knot in government-run old age home in Thrissur’s Ramavarmapuram

The incident triggered an intense debate among twitter users in the country with many users claiming that case would be viewed differently had a female minister been involved instead of Rasheed

The finder alerts police after stumbling upon the bag near the centre of the western city of Krefeld shortly before midnight on Christmas Eve

During the inauguration of Rashtriya Adivasi Nritya Mahotsav, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was seen dancing with the tribals 

The setup is made magical by Alexa, a voice assistant that comes with Amazon Echo smart speakers

The Indian parents burried the kids neck-deep in cattle dung hoping miracle during solar eclipse

Thanks to reinforced glass, the little boy was spared when the hungry wildcat pounded on him with full might

"He robbed the bank, came out, threw the money all over the place," witness Dion Pascale tells CBS Colorado Springs affiliate KKTV

 A normal video of a father capturing his son on camera at a zoo in Ireland quickly turns into a demonstration of why the tiger is one of the fiercest predators walking the Earth

A man was arrested in Colorado Springs on Monday after he robbed a bank and threw money in the air, shouting ‘Merry Christmas’