A white bear with brown patches shot dead in northern Canada is the first grizzly-polar hybrid found in the wild, DNA tests have confirmed. Canadian wildlife officials say it is the offspring of a...

A comet is delighting astronomers with a marvellous night-time display as it makes a near pass of the Earth. The ball of ice, rock and dust has broken up into more than 60 pieces; two of the larger...

Shanghai is getting set to open a "human zoo." Four Australian men will live in a glass box on a downtown mall for two weeks in June, with the public able to watch them sleeping, eating and bathing...

Dennis Russian just might have a record catch. On Tuesday, the 59-year-old from New Alexandria nabbed a monster fish _ a 49-inch-long carp that unofficially weighs 54 pounds, 4 ounces. "That's the...

CRAWFORDSVILLE, Indiana (AP) -- An inmate trying to escape from his cell crashed through a ceiling panel and landed just feet from jailers in the lockup's lobby, authorities said. ...

A Chinese businessman who bought a Russian fighter jet online wants his money back after finding it could not be shipped to China, state media reported on Tuesday. Zhang Cheng, a Beijing businessm...

About 39,500 1,000 yen bills were found to be unusable at some vending and automatic teller machines due to a printing error, the National Printing Bureau announced Tuesday. The bills, which are be...

A 63-year-old child psychiatrist who is pregnant after fertility treatment has said the decision to become Britain's oldest mother required "courage and a great deal of thought". Dr Patricia Rashb...

Upton Farm in Oxfordshire (England) is one of 80 Conservation Grade farms that are following a programme of sensitive field management designed to encourage animals back to the British landscape. (wat...

Friends and relatives of Cruz Hernandez's gathered on Wednesday to celebrate her 128th birthday, a milestone that might make her the world's oldest person. Hernandez, who relatives say spends most...