An eight-foot critically injured Burmese python undergoes a Computed Tomography or CT scan during treatment in India.

Geneva prosecutors are investigating after toilets in a bank and three restaurants were blocked by about $100,000 in high-denomination euro banknotes, they say.

A batch of single-cell protein - which can be further developed for use as food and animal feed - is produced by Finnish researchers using electricity and carbon dioxide.

An advertising agency in Thailand has developed a “smart vest” that potentially could turn stray dogs into guardians of Bangkok’s streets and alleyways.

Meet Lulu Hashimoto, a “living doll” and the latest trend in Tokyo’s fashion modeling scene.

An Indian court gives a woman permission to divorce her husband because their home did not have a toilet, forcing her to seek relief outdoors.

A Canadian woman who lost her engagement ring 13 years ago while weeding her garden on the family farm is wearing it proudly again after her daughter-in-law pulled it from the ground on a misshapen carrot.

A giant tortoise that made a break from a Japanese zoo is found safe and sound two weeks after it escaped -- just 140 metres from the park.

For a few days this week a goat will be king of a small town in Ireland's rural south west.

The fatal shootings of several cows in southeastern New Mexico spark fears of a serial cattle killer running loose.

A carefree sailor is rescued from his toy dinghy one mile (1.6km) off the coast of Redcar in north east England after being dragged out to sea by strong currents.

Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan, who is going strong and is busy with several projects, revealed how he actually fell asleep while they were filming a scene in which he had to pretend that he was sleeping, reports NDTV

A passionate midnight kiss landed an inebriated woman in Kolkata jail.

A woman in Ohio is hospitalised after a boa constrictor reportedly wrapped around her body and latched onto her face.

A 59-year old woman from the central Chinese city of Wuhan transformed her appearance through plastic surgery in order to avoid 25 million yuan ($3.71 million) of personal debts, state news agency Xinhua says.

A Los Angeles man is arrested after federal prosecutors said he arranged to smuggle into the United States three live, highly venomous king cobra snakes hidden in potato chip canisters.

A woman has been convicted of murdering her husband after the husband’s last words were repeated by the pet parrot who witnessed the attack, reports Independent.

Cambodia's latest social media sensation is a five-month-old calf believed by a villager to be the reincarnation of her dead husband.

Pharmacies in Uruguay start selling marijuana under the final phase of a four-year-old law that made the small South American country the first in the world to legalise pot from production to sale.

While African lions have a habit of killing leopards, it is quite surprising to see a five-year-old lioness nursing a weeks-old leopard cub recently in Tanzania's Ngorongoro Conservation Area.