Sydney’s same-sex penguins become parents
Two male penguins entrusted with the care of a fostered egg have welcomed a tiny sub-Antarctic Gentoo chick into the world, Sydney’s Sea Life Aquarium said on Friday. The pair,…
Two male penguins entrusted with the care of a fostered egg have welcomed a tiny sub-Antarctic Gentoo chick into the world, Sydney’s Sea Life Aquarium said on Friday. The pair,…
French cyclist Robert Marchand, aged 106, cycles at the indoor Velodrome National of Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines in Montigny-le-Bretonneux, southwest of Paris Centenarian cyclist Robert Marchand donned his lycra shorts again on Friday…
A Belgian store owner foiled an armed robbery on Saturday by telling the would-be thieves to return later when there would be more money in the till. The gang duly…
Penguins, Sphen and Magic, interact with one another at Sea Life Sydney Aquarium in Sydney, Australia Two male penguins who built a nest together from ice pebbles at Sydney’s Sea…
It was an unusual job advert. Wanted: Cat chief. Location: Zelenogradsk, Russia: Duties: Tending to the town’s approximately 70 stray cats. Some 80 applicants applied for the new role with…
With a look of apprehension, a blond woman clad in a wetsuit wobbles her way onto a lake in western Germany in a huge, hollowed-out vegetable. Paddle held aloft, she’s…
The Houston City Council on Wednesday prevented what was billed as the first brothel in the United States equipped with sex dolls from opening in the Texas city, altering a…
The $17 million USD pair of shoes on display at the Burj Al Arab Hotel in Dubai That’s one way to lose those walking blues: a pair of shoes encrusted…
China complained to Sweden on Monday over a satirical news show on Swedish state television that advised Chinese tourists how to avoid culture clashes in a way that Beijing said…
In an unassuming house on France’s River Loire, a cobra lives on the coffee table, a 50 kg (110-pound) tortoise roams the garden and a two-metre (seven-foot) alligator sleeps in…