Earliest upright walking ape discovered in Germany

Wang Wuka, a ten-year-old boy from Xuancheng, showcased his impressive billiard skills. Wang Wuka now practices his tricks for two hours or more every day, with the full support of his family.

An aspiring inventor from the northern Indian city of Varanasi has developed security gadgets for women, using weaponised lipsticks, purses and sandals to fight against sexual harassment.

In his newest exhibition Darren Bader displays fruits and vegetables on plinths, before making a salad out of them, that visitors can eat. His previous works include a lasagne injected with heroin and goats in a gallery.

Thousands of people and animals are being evacuated as the Taal Volcano may erupt again. Towns are covered in ash from the volcano, which has been erupting since January 12.

A cat cafe and hotel is offering shelter to rescue cats. Visitors can not only play with furry felines in the cafe but gaze at them when they sleep in the adjacent hotel. All cats from the cafe are up for adoption.

Amid great expectation and dozens of visitors, workers at Santiago's Buin Zoo presented to the public ‘Bernardina', a baby pygmy hippo.

Supersopa is a concentrated soup that has been especially developed to tackle malnutrition among the poorer sectors in the world.

2,000 chicks have been re-homed with students in Bandung, in an effort to generate interest in farming and to prevent gadget addiction.

The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) takes place every year in Las Vegas and showcases the newest products and technologies that may enter your everyday life soon.

A couple from Israel, living close to the Gaza Strip, is making jewellery out of rocket shrapnel. The idea came to them when they were asked to bring shrapnel to the US as a gift.

A Tokyo based company has created a 2.5 meter tall robot exoskeleton suit that turns its user into a giant cyborg.

In a town in Portugal parents encourage their children to smoke during Epiphany festivities. No one knows how this tradition started.

30 people parked their cars on ice, which resulted in the ice cracking and the cars sinking. No one got hurt.

The Harbin Ice and Snow Festival is stunning visitors with its giant ice sculptures. It’s the largest annual ice festival in the world.

With Christmas long gone, the annual Christmas Tree Throwing World Championship took place in the German town of Weidenthal. People were seen throwing their Christmas trees, trying to do that the furthest and the highest. The most environmentally-...

After 18 years of hard work, Kung Fu practitioner Zhang Chengqiang was able to walk on water and jump over it in a streak of lightning speed. Zhang was trained in a Kung Fu school since childhood and used to be a Kung Fu stand-in for action movies...

People from across the city of Royal Oak, Michigan, gathered outside Beaumont Hospital on Tuesday evening, to shine flashlights from outside up to paediatric patients to remind them they aren't alone during the holiday season.

Banksy’s ‘Season’s Greetings’ has gone on display in the Welsh town of Talbot. At first glance it seems to depict a child catching snowflakes with its tongue, but viewed from another angle it reveals that what appeared to be snowflakes is actually...

A baby sloth has been rescued after it fell from a tree when loggers cut it down. It was injured and separated from its mother when the Planeta Vida team found it. Now it’s being nursed back to health.

Mexico City now has an eco-friendly ice rink that is made out of artificial ice. It saves water, electricity and emits zero CO2.

A post-graduate student and a traffic volunteer, Shubhi Jain have attracted social media fan following with her unique dance moves to regulate traffic in the Indian city of Indore.

An agriculture student has taught a chicken how to play the piano for a university project. Through behavioural conditioning, he trained the chicken to play three songs over the course of two months.

Pre-historic cave art has been discovered on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The cave painting seemingly depicts a hunting scene and shows the early importance of storytelling.

Mohammed al-Shenbari taught himself to stack objects in a way that seemingly defies gravity after watching a YouTube video.