A fishing boat that went missing during a powerful Japanese tsunami has been found 10 years later on a small Pacific island. The small fishing vessel went missing from the city of Kesennuma in the prefecture of Miyagi in the north-eastern Japanese region of Tohoku following the Great East Japan…
Turkish vets have used 15 litres of olive oil to clean up a cat which had fallen into an oil tank and was totally covered in black grease. The ginger cat was found in the neighbourhood of Izzetpasa in the eastern Turkish city of Elazig on 9th December. According to…
Chinese scientists have discovered the fossil of a 500 million-year-old insect with a head resembling rabbit ears. The fossil of the ancient phantaspis auritus was found in the city of Weifang in the central-east Chinese province of Shandong. According to the newspaper Global Times, the insect, which lived around 500…
A visually-impaired skier has won a near seven-year court battle after a collision with a blind skier left him totally blind. Jeroen van Dijk, 70, was skiing in the municipality of Bramberg in the central-west Austrian state of Salzburg on 23rd January 2014. Jeroen, who suffered a stroke in 2010…
A young girl is fighting for her life with a bullet in her skull after three men randomly opened fire on her and friends during her 14th birthday garden party. The shocking incident was reported at a house near Eerste River in the South African province of Western Cape on…
