A judge in Iran has started sentencing criminals to buy and read books instead of handing down prison terms.

An Italian chess player is kicked out of one the country's most prestigious tournaments after allegedly using a camera and Morse code to cheat.

An angry bull elephant crashes into tourists at Mana Pools National Park in Zimbabwe.

This instructor takes a more hands on approach to wake the sleeping student by spraying the fire extinguisher in the classroom.

A special police unit sets up in southern Russia with the sole purpose of ensuring security at weddings.

A Japanese artist comes up with a clever idea of using straw left over after rice harvests to make sculptures of dinosaurs with them!

Bangladesh, takes its education seriously but it is not alone in its incredible story of children defeating the odds just to reach school.

John Ng dives in the waters around Hong Kong and overseas taking amazing photos of the extraordinary sea life and marine animals for more than 10 years.

We all have dreams. Sometimes that dream can be to fly in a giant drone one day!

Australia offers tourists massive selfies from hundreds of metres away as part of a campaign to attract Japanese tourists to the country.

Japan's leading toilet giant opens a new museum dedicated to a century of lavatories, from its first water flushing model to the most cutting edge version with odour-neutralisers and variable water jets.

Nic Vargus will dress as a ninja turtle for his wedding after Twitter users answered his call for help.

A frustrated 2011 graduate of Florida State University's School of Theatre is looking to get rid of her student debt in an interesting way — by selling her diploma and "college experience" for $50,000 on eBay.

Wakayama Electric Railway president Mitsunobu Kojima proudly announces a new cat stationmaster, named Nitama, will be filling Tama's rather petite shoes.

A 12-year-old boy has tripped and accidentally smashed a hole in an AU $2 million dollar painting on display in Taiwan.

A trial in England is hoping to significantly boost the range of electric cars by introducing roads that can charge the vehicles as they drive along them.

What could be more courageous than taking on an animal multiple times your size? This goat has the answer as it takes on a cow head on in a feat of sheer will power.

Dismaland, which opens to the public Saturday and sits on the 2.5 acre site of the Tropicana lido, is the shadowy artist's first "bemusement park," and it's packed full of subversive artworks.

Bubba, a cool cat, lives with his owner Amber Marienthal and her family in a house near Leland High School and Bret Harte Middle School in San Jose of California. Bubba is allowed to wander through the school hallways and hang out in classrooms, meowing whenever he wants to be let in or out. Finally he gets his very own student ID card.

Although he looks like any other ordinary tea seller, however, Laxman Rao is a tea-seller with a difference. He owns a small roadside stall, where his customers come not only for the brew, but also a taste of his words, reports the NDTV.