Joey "Jaws" Chestnut has lost his hot dog eating crown to Matt Stonie at the Fourth of July contest at Nathan's Famous in Coney Island.

Narendra Modi's appeal to parents to post snapshots on social media with their daughters has gone viral with sporting stars and business leaders among those taking up the initiative.

In quest for boys, a couple in Gujarat takes 14 daughters at the rate of one every year, and finally had a boy two years ago.

An international man -- and woman -- hunt has been launched for a couple who got engaged at the top of the Eiffel Tower last month.

Videos of the rosy-cheeked toddler pulling herself up climbing walls zipped across the Internet this week, drawing millions of views on Facebook in just a few days, reports CNN.

An ITI aspirant is in utter shock after finding a dog’s photo on his admit card, reports the Times of India.

Fancy a meteor shower racing across the night sky to mark your birthday? One Japanese start-up is hoping to deliver shooting stars on demand and choreograph the cosmos.

At just shy of 10 meters in length and standing 3.65m tall, the Sin City Hustler is bigger than the average studio apartment.

Slovak tech firm AeroMobil is working on a new prototype of its flying car, weeks after the vehicle of the future spread its wings and crashed during a test flight.

Godzilla has been granted special residency in Tokyo's Shinjuku ward, as a newly-installed model of the lizard's huge head proves a pull to visitors.

A Washington man shocked the staff of a neighborhood restaurant earlier this week by leaving a $2,000 for a meal of beer and gumbo he shared with a friend, the proprietor says.

Eureka! After about a century of research, Swiss scientists have finally cracked the mystery of the holes in Swiss cheese.

An abandoned Underground station used by Winston Churchill as a bunker during World War II could become London's latest go-to bar or gallery under a plan launched by the city's transport agency.

Around 150 armchairs, 100 lampshades and other items including mirror frames are being grown out of the ground in a highly unusual adventure in furniture design.

Designed to give visitors the feeling of being suspended in air, when complete in July the Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon Glass Bridge will become the highest, longest and, arguably, the most terrifying pedestrian bridge in the world.

As the NASA designs a fitness program for astronauts whose goal is to combat space's toll on the body, their discoveries could help keep us Earthlings in shape.

A list of some of the strangest requests made to travel agents reveals that some of us are a little more worldly than others.

Japan is readying to lift the lid on what could be its most effective global marketing gimmick yet: the high-tech toilet seat.

The bike purchased at auction is a replica of the one that Garrett Hedlund, the actor who played young Sam Flynn in 2010's "Tron: Legacy," was seen riding on screen.

A sunken English warship, perhaps holding a treasure chest of gold coins onboard, will be raised from its watery grave off the coast of Uruguay after being submerged for some 252 years.