Earliest upright walking ape discovered in Germany

An 18,000-year-old puppy recovered last year from Siberia’s permafrost was presented to the public in Yakutsk.

An art installation featuring a pillar reported containing the mortal ashes of victims of the National Socialist German Workers Party has been erected in front of the Bundestag, in Berlin.

Hedgehogs are moving into 'prison cells' to hibernate over this year's harsh German winter.

A baby snowy owl injured after falling into a trap is recuperating after surgery at the Kemerovo Centre for Conservation of Biological Diversity. Kemerovo locals found the owlet with its left leg stuck in a trap, and took him to the rehabilitation...

A carpenter from the Chinese city of Kaiyuan took charge of his dream of owning a sports car by making use of his carpentry skills and building a wooden sports car of his own at home.

Austrian athlete Franz Mullner set a new record by spinning the Hi-Sky Ferris wheel in Munich using only the strength of his muscles. Mullner can be seen pulling the 78-metre-tall (255 feet) structure using a rope and straps in front of a cheering...

A St Petersburg restaurant has added a fancy twist to one of the most iconic street foods – from the beginning of November local foodies have had the chance to experience shawarma stuffed with sturgeon caviar and decorated with gold leaves.

A powerful earthquake has hit Albania. Dozens have died and hundreds have been injured, many are displaced. Rescue efforts are ongoing.

A sculpture of Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange and whistleblowers Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning, returned to Berlin as Germany's Bundestag held a public hearing on Assange's UK extradition case. The event - organised by German political p...

A company in Spain has developed an eco-friendly shoe that is made out of banana fibre.

A mini-chopper could be a solution for traffic jams and rescue operations in the future.

A London based company aims to encourage consumers to take a more environmentally friendly approach to eat, by promoting the use of edible insects in cookery. Horizon Edible Insects has developed a burger patty recipe featuring creepy crawlies and...

A dog walker in Buenos Aires has converted a school bus to make it more comfortable for his clients to be driven around.

The Lowy bakery in Brussels is capitalising on the latest food trends as they launch "Cannabread", the first commercially distributed hemp bread in commercially.

Following the ban of single-use plastic in Odisha, a demand for a substitute is increasing. Women have come together and are making plates out of leaves, generating an income.

In (the village of) Berezovka near Zhytomyr, Ukraine, a shelter for bears helps animals with a troubled past to recover.

A monkey Mantled Howler monkey (Alouatta Palliata) that was rescued in the Ecuadorian city of Guayaquil after being brutally separated from its mother by traffickers was given a new lease on life at a veterinary centre that is preparing it to be r...

Stan the cat is an anti-Brexit campaigner and will stand in the UK general election.

The ban of single-use plastic that has been in place since 2016 transformed the Guatemalan town of San Pedro La Laguna in many ways.

A LEGO exhibition has just opened its doors in Spain. There you can see the largest LEGO plane in the world, models of superheroes, and a whole area dedicated to the human body.

A bar in New Delhi is selling oxygen, promising better health amid the air pollution in the Indian capital.

A farmer in the central-western city of Corumba has taken in hundreds of caimans trying to escape from the wildfires in the Pantanal region.

The fossils of an ancient upright walking ape have been discovered in Germany. This could change the way we tell evolutionary history.

Builders pulled a dog out of an icy lake with an excavator bucket. The dog ran away after.