French artist Abraham Poincheval is freed from a block of stone in a Paris museum after spending seven days enclosed in it.

Greek villagers stage a street battle with bags of colored flour in an annual tradition called the Flour War.

Rock legends Guns N' Roses apologises after confusing the southern city of Melbourne with Sydney on their Australian tour.

With 15 degrees on his resume, a 70-year-old Italian is the world record holder for the number of university degrees.

It's the stuff of nightmares -- a cockroach crawls up your nose in the middle of the night, burrows in and drives you mad with scratching behind your eyes. But for one Indian woman, this horror story proved all too real.

A traditional Japanese doll modelled after US President Donald Trump raises eyebrows among some Tokyo shoppers ahead of "Girls Day", a holiday meant to celebrate the health and happiness of girls.

An Australian zookeeper on Tuesday urges people to catch and donate deadly funnel-web spiders, to help replenish stocks of antidote running low after a spate of spider bites.

China will not allow its mammoth mobile online population to play Pokemon Go or other augmented-reality games until it completes a review of potential security risks, a Chinese digital publishing group says.

Rajasthan Education Minister Vasudev Devnani says cow is the only animal that inhales as well as exhales oxygen, reports The Indian Express.

Hayden Cross, a British man, is expected to become the first UK male to give birth to baby after living legally as a man for three years after his gender transition, reports Times of India online.

A Vietnamese man has had scissors removed from his abdomen which were left behind during surgery 18 years ago, after reporting a stomachache that was nearly two decades in the making.

Searches for selfies lead to many bad decisions, an outbreak of creepy clown sightings chills even horror maestro Stephen King, and a hard-fought campaign ends with the election of former reality TV star Donald Trump as president of the United States.

Ahead of his visit to Japan later this week, Russian President Vladimir Putin brings his dog Yume into an interview with Japanese journalists, and the large Akita breed makes sure she as well as her master are well heard.

A New Zealand man of Asian descent has his passport photograph rejected when facial recognition software mistakenly registers his eyes as being closed.

Mohamed Hagras stands barechested as dozens of honeybees congregate around his face, eventually forming what he calls the "Beard of Bees". To attract the insects he has a box housing their queen's hormones strapped to his chin.

The subject was pickup lines, and Germany's "Mr. Flirt" offered a few examples to his class of Syrian and Iraqi refugees. "I really love the scent of your perfume," he suggested. "You have a beautiful voice." He invited his students to take a stab.

A drone flew a load of illegal items to an inmate's cell on the fourth floor of a Danish prison, the Danish Prison Union says, presumably to help bust the inmate out.

​Doctors in a UAE hospital are celebrating the successful delivery of smallest patient born, a baby girl, weighing lighter than an iPad, just 631 grams.

Chinese websites again block searches for "Fatty Kim the Third", as many Chinese mockingly call North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, with China's foreign ministry saying it does not approve of ridiculing foreign leaders.

In a startling footage, two cows and a calf are seen stranded on a tiny plateau at the north of the town of Kaikoura, New Zealand after the massive earthquakes that hit the country.