A white moggy called Theo, who pawed and sat on his owner all night to stop her falling asleep after she developed a blood clot, was crowned British Cat of the Year yesterday.

Judges in Kuala Lumpur clean their own toilets after the janitors went on strike for not being paid by the contractor.

A parasite which is carried by cats that can also affect humans could alter an individual's behaviour and make them more entrepreneurial, according to new research.

Indonesian villagers armed with knives, hammers and clubs slaughtered 292 crocodiles in revenge for the death of a man killed by a crocodile at a breeding farm, an official says.

Street artist Banksy is known around the world for his simple graffiti stencils, often with a sharp political point, but a new London exhibition is an opportunity to discover his wider talents.

A teenager is criminally charged after running half-naked across an Atlanta airport runway and jumping onto the wing of a Delta Air Lines plane that had just landed.

A teenager has been criminally charged after running half-naked across an Atlanta airport runway and jumping onto the wing of a Delta Air Lines plane that had just landed.

A 9-year-old English bulldog is named the winner of the 2018 World’s Ugliest Dog contest in the San Francisco Bay Area.

When bank technicians in India are finally summoned to investigate why an ATM (automated teller machine) had not been working for days, they begin to smell a rat.

An Australian performance artist who was buried in a steel container under a busy road for 72 hours as part of a so-called dark arts festival is released from his self-imposed prison.

A scientist hopes the marvels of modern science can finally unravel the over 1,500-year old mystery of Loch Ness as he travels from the University of Otago in New Zealand to collect water samples in the Scottish lake, in the hope of finding out more about the creatures that inhabit its depths.

Fake promotional gold bars apparently appeares so much like the real thing that someone broke into a western Michigan flooring shop to take them.

An anonymous bidder agrees to pay $3,300,100 at auction to have a private lunch with Warren Buffett, the billionaire chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.

Police are investigating an off-duty FBI agent's apparently accidental shooting of a man when the agent did a backflip at a Colorado night club, local media reports on Sunday.

A monkey snatched a bag containing Rs 1,40,000, from a man and his daughter as they were about to enter a bank in Agra of India.

Annoyed at seagulls that pester its patrons, a restaurant in the Australian city of Perth arms customers with water pistols to stop the birds from ruining the waterfront dining experience.

The pungent smell of the rotten durian fruit at an Australian university library has been mistaken for a gas leak, prompting an evacuation of the building.

The world's second largest Banyan tree in Mahabubnagar district of India’s Telangana which is almost dying, is on ‘saline drip’ now as part of the rejuvenation.

Jerome Hamon is getting used to his new soubriquet "the man with three faces".

The story of Klepetan and Malena, two storks in Croatia, is one of love and devotion beating the odds.