-- 2018-01-09 03:06:04
Sweden's Yevo Labs has unveiled a set of wireless headphones that incorporate metal made from seized illegal guns. The charging case and a band on the headphones themselves are made of a material bra...
-- 2018-01-08 04:04:33
The Epiphany celebrations in the Portuguese village of Vale de Salgueiro feature a tradition that each year causes an outcry among outsiders: Parents encouraging their children, some as young as 5, to...
BBC 2018-01-07 12:57:03
Restrictions on the sale of alcohol at UK airports could be introduced in an effort to reduce the number of drink-related rage incidents on planes. Airports are currently exempt from legislation gove...
-- 2018-01-07 02:42:18
Sydney residents sweltered through the city’s second hottest night on record and its hottest December night in 148 years, with many cooling off at beaches long after dark. A minimum of 27.1 deg...
BBC 2018-01-06 12:01:45
A restaurant has been fined £50,000 by magistrates for serving food on wooden boards. Birmingham City Council says the wooden plates, used by Ibrahim's Grill and Steak House in Acocks Green, po...
-- 2018-01-06 08:11:10
Just before Christmas, former UFC bantamweight champion Cody Garbrandt relayed the wonderful story of Jean-Claude Van Damme’s visit to Team Alpha Male’s Sacramento HQ for a bit of training...
FE Online Desk 2018-01-04 07:02:19
A Jet Airways flight with 324 passengers on board suddenly found itself in a bizarre situation as the captain and his co-pilot had a violent argument. Consequently, he hit her and she left the cockpi...
-- 2018-01-04 01:58:08
A Japanese TV programme has sparked accusations of racism and cultural insensitivity after a comedian painted his face to impersonate Eddie Murphy. The New Year's Eve show featured celebrity comic Ha...
-- 2018-01-03 03:53:39
A zookeeper has been flown to Canberra Hospital for treatment after being attacked by a rhino at a Zoo in Australia’s New South Wales State on Wednesday. The 47-year-old woman was completing ro...
-- 2018-01-02 01:30:57
A 27-year-old software engineer committed suicide in Madurai on Sunday as he was frustrated over a hair fall problem, police said. The deceased has been identified as R Mithun Raj of Jaihindpuram, wh...
BBC 2018-01-01 11:52:51
Researchers in London have developed scanning techniques that show what is written on the papyrus that mummy cases are made from. These are the decorated boxes into which the wrapped body of the dece...
-- 2017-12-31 01:02:06
Extreme cold didn’t get in the way of a heartwarming proposal on an icy mountainside. Josh Darnell, 31, of Londonderry, New Hampshire in the United States dropped to his knee and popped the que...
BBC 2017-12-30 11:14:34
A Thai court has sentenced a fraudster to more than 13,000 years in prison. Pudit Kittithradilok, 34, admitted running a Ponzi scheme whereby he promised investors artificially high financial returns...
-- 2017-12-29 06:56:32
Two foreign journalists, an interpreter and a driver jailed for flying a drone near Myanmar's parliament have been released, the authorities say. All four, who work for Turkish broadcaster TRT, have...
FE Online Desk 2017-12-29 03:14:06
For the third year in a row, Donald Trump tops the list of world's most dangerous online person. In just the most recent months of his first year as president, he's used his Twitter to fan hatred, sp...
-- 2017-12-28 12:31:07
A US police officer has told how he broke through the ice on a frozen pond and jumped in to rescue an eight-year-old boy on Christmas Day. Washington County sheriff's Sgt Aaron Thompson was called to...
FE Online Desk 2017-12-28 07:00:05
A 98-year-old Indian citizen, Raj Kumar Vaishya, has passed the MA (economics) examination from Patna's Nalanda Open University (NOU) with a second division. Graduated in 1938, Mr Vaishya expressed h...
-- 2017-12-27 12:13:57
Australian police are looking for the owner of a small crocodile found wandering the streets of Melbourne on Christmas Day. Locals taking an evening stroll stumbled across the reptile outside a subur...
BBC 2017-12-27 11:06:02
An electricity bill for more than $284 billion left a woman in the US state of Pennsylvania stunned... until she found out the amount was wrong. Mary Horomanski from Erie said the latest bill showed...
-- 2017-12-26 12:00:00
Each year as winter descends lakes on the Jahangirnagar University (JU) campus play host to hundreds of migratory birds, who prefer taking the temporary refuge to escape extreme chilly weather of Sibe...
AP 2017-12-25 12:00:00
Cultural authorities at UNESCO have recognised the artisans of Panama for their distinctive woven hats. No, not those hats; the famed “Panama hat” comes from Ecuador. Panama’s real...
-- 2017-12-23 12:00:00
A baby girl has been attacked in her room by a raccoon in the US city of Philadelphia, her family says. Four-month-old Jourini Black suffered claw marks to the face when the raccoon attacked her whil...
FE Online Desk 2017-12-23 05:14:18
Indian Union Minister Prakash Javadekar was captured in camera using a landline-receiver in order to avoid the harmful radiation released by mobile phones, outside the Parliament, on Friday. In ord...
FE Online Report 2017-12-23 05:09:08
Abheesh P Dominic, a man of India's Kerala, broke open over a hundred coconuts with his bare hand to set a Guinness World Record. Dominic smashed the record in the city of Kottayam earlier this year...
-- 2017-12-23 03:46:29
A new industry has emerged in China, helping husbands and wives to separate their unfaithful spouses from their lovers. It is called mistress dispelling, in which clients often pay tens of thousands...
-- 2017-12-22 03:09:57
A potentially deadly fungal disease poses a significant threat to snakes all over the world, new research suggests. The pathogen, has been found in 23 species of wild snake in the US and three in Eur...
BBC 2017-12-21 12:00:00
The wreck of Australia's first naval submarine has been found after a 103-year search. The HMAS AE-1 was the first Allied submarine lost in World War I, vanishing off Rabaul, Papua New Guinea with 35...
-- 2017-12-21 04:53:28
Archaeologists recently discovered ruins of an 8,000-year old village in Huade County, northern China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The Simagou site covers an area of 30,000 square metres and c...
-- 2017-12-21 04:37:31
A study by Chinese scientists in East Antarctica has shown that penguins existed in the region 14,600 years ago, 6,000 years earlier than previously thought. The study was conducted by a research tea...
BBC 2017-12-20 11:48:11
Hundreds of dead sharks have been found washed up on the shores of Iran's Shif island. Some fishermen catch the sharks for their fins, which are believed to have medicinal properties, officials say....
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