A study produced by researchers at the University of Bristol builds on previous suggestions that males smoking as a child could be linked to having overweight children. Their findings suggest that the negative impacts on their future descendants...
Freddie Beckitt has combined queuing up with his career as a historical fiction writer and explained how his clients range from families to pensioners. Beckitt has experience standing in the cold but explains that he usually queues professionally...
The anonymous case study - cited in the Clinical Case Reports, a medical journal - tested positive for the disease and reported experiencing mild symptoms but was left with some unfortunate trouble in the bedroom afterwards. Three weeks...
Laura Spears was searching for another misfiled email when she realised that she had hit the $3 million Michigan Lottery Mega Millions jackpot after entering the draw. She said: "I was looking for a missing email from someone, so I checked the...
Mobile phones are being blamed for reduced sperm count and quality in a new analysis by South Korean experts. The link has been identified from an analysis of 18 studies, involving more than 4,000 sperm samples, with scientists claiming that the...
Kitten Kay Sera - who bills herself as “the pinkest person in the world” - has made history by tying the knot with her favourite colour in a Las Vegas ceremony. Kitten, who says she had spent over £1 million on pink things, took...
NASA has issued a warning about asteroids heading for Earth. Astronomers funded by the space agency have discovered that objects heading towards earth at night can appear stationary because of the way the planet rotates and orbits the Sun. This...
Jason Kirck was suspended as the coach of the girls' team at Sacred Heart Academy in Connecticut after his players beat their opponents by 92 points to four earlier this month. The nature of the win was deemed unsportsmanlike by the school and...
Zane Wedding initially suspected that he had water trapped in his ear after going swimming but decided to consult a specialist when the wriggling sensation continued. He was then informed by the doctor that the insect had been living in his ear for...
Experts at Cardiff University asked 43 women to look at a number of images and rate the attractiveness of the opposite sex in face coverings and those without. The pictures showed men wearing different types of face coverings such as a plain cloth...
Brian Donohue – who studies maths at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville – got a jackpot-winning lottery ticket from the Bank A Million draw as a gift from his mother during the festive period. The ticket was from the December...
Dr Mustafa Ali – who was walking to work in Trollhattan in Sweden – spotted that an elderly man had collapsed outside his home shovelling snow and explained how the drone was summoned to assist the ailing man. Dr Ali said: “I...
Gioacchino Gammino – a convicted murderer on Italy’s most wanted list – was arrested in the Spanish town of Galapagar, where he had set up a new life. The former mob boss was rumbled after a picture showed a man resembling him...
Cows stuck inside for winter have been given virtual reality goggles to make them think they are outdoors. The bovines are believed to be happier and are producing more milk since the goggles have been fitted, tests on a farm in Turkey have shown....
Experts at the University of Geneva have been looking into the impact of fitness on learning outcomes by observing 193 students, aged 8 to 12. By studying both their grades and fitness levels, they found a connection between improved...
Six different swimming creatures were able to steer a specially formatted Fish Operated Vehicle (FOV) with four wheels - which reacts to the fish’s movements around the tank placed on top - around a room with the training aid of pellets....
The propaganda mouthpiece for the dictator's regime claimed that Kim Jong-il dreamed up the Mexican dish before his death in 2011. The strange claim follows an equally bizarre propaganda story that suggested that the former North Korean leader...
Alfredo Antonio Trujillo was born at 11.45 p.m. on New Year’s Eve at Natividad Medical Centre in Monterey County, California, before twin sister Aylin Yolanda Trujillo arrived as the clock struck midnight - meaning that she was born on New...
Kane Tanaka marked the milestone on Sunday, January 2, 2022, at the nursing home where she resides in the Fukuoka prefecture in the southwest of the country. Tanaka was recognised as the oldest person in the world by Guinness World Records in 2019...
Officials from the Seoul Metropolitan Fire and Disaster Department have revealed that felines caused a total of 107 house fires between January 2019 and November 2021. The majority of the incidents are believed to have been caused by the animals...
Dr Christian Schroder will pilot a rover on the red planet for 230 days next year and believes the mission could prove that life is present on Mars. Schroder said: "Over the last two decades we have learned that there was plenty of liquid...
Queensland Health Minister Yvette D'Ath was speaking at an outdoor news conference to discuss the need for businesses to follow coronavirus vaccination rules when it was pointed out that the large creature was on the podium. D'Ath asked:...
Tommy had always struggled to walk after being born with a leg much weaker than its others and his back and shoulder had been damaged as a result. The prosthetics company Dorset Orthopaedic has made an artificial leg that is fitted to his weaker...
'Songs of Disappearance' features the birdsongs from 53 of Australia's most threatened bird species and is currently at number five in the Australia Aria chart – ahead of artistes such as Michael Buble, Olivia Rodrigo and ABBA....
Researchers at the University of Bristol have discovered the Shashajaia – one of the most primitive members of a group called the Sphenacodontoidea, which eventually evolved into mammals. The findings, which have been published in Royal...
