A family of painting elephants prepare to wow audiences at a Japanese zoo. An elephant couple and their one year old baby put paint onto canvas with a paintbrush held in their trunks to display their artistic abilities.
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A couple in Germany has become famous for being the parents ot twins born with different skin colours Leo and Ryan were born in a clinic in Berlin last week and have since become celebrities. Their parents are from Germany and Ghana and one brother was born with completely different colour skin to the other. Doctors say its incredibly rare.
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A Massachusetts developer is using a sexy online spokesmodel to promote a condominium giveaway.
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Ohio group home teacher charged after sex with 16-year-old boy.
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A 69-year-old Florida woman finds an 8-foot alligator in her kitchen, apparently finding its way inside through a sliding glass door left open. A trapper removed the gator, which cut itself when a plate fell to the floor.
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Motorists who drive I-83 in southern Pennsylvania are getting an eyeful from a billboard that’s using sex to promote a local gunshow. Is it too racy?
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Ten to 15 wild turkeys have taken over one Madison, Wisconsin, Neighborhood. Postal workers say the turkeys have attacked them on occasion. They say they are now protecting themselves to fend off the foul.
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Italian police have issued surveillance video of a man who appeared to hypnotize a supermarket cashier before stealing money from her cash register.
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The men’s championship game between Oral Roberts University and IUPUI of the Summit League, was overshadowed when a fight between the teams mascots erupted like a royal flush win in poker.
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WSJ’s Ilan Brat looks at how ice-chewing is taking off and also finds himself getting hooked on the strangely addicting cold treat.
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The pool is a kilometer long and is as deep as 35 meters.
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Ice bar: Winter nights in China’s northeastern Harbin city were never boring. Just a few hours drive south of Siberia, Harbin’s winter temperature can go to minus 20 degree centigrade. The city lights up every year with ice lantern sculptures and people performing on ice.
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A Japanese shoe maker has developed a sponge that fits in a shoe and is imbued with mint at the heel, allowing the wearer to pump mint fumes in the shoe every time he or she walks.
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Women-only buses: It’s not an entirely exclusive program: some boys are allowed. So far only bus drivers are men but the city has instituted a program to train female drivers.
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The mice competed in a rodent run at a Japan zoo to celebrate the year of the Rat.
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Most students dread going back to school after winter break, but a 10-year-old Mexican boy was so anxious to stay home that he took matters into his own hands.
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While most Muscovites prefer to sit in their heated homes and wait for winter to pass, for a small group of people the frozen waters around the Russian capital hold a special appeal.
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Predicted low temperatures will hopefully keep these man-made wonders standing for at least two more weeks.
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Each year for the last four years Nepal has organised an International Elephant Race, attracting hundreds of onlookers — both locals and tourists — to one of the country’s best-loved pastimes, which honours one of the country’s most-loved animals.Appropriately time to fall between Christmas and New Year, at the peak of the year’s festive season, the elephant race is an event that mahouts across Nepal prepare for all year.
Twirling your pen or pencil through your fingers is being elevated to a form of art in Japan.
Check out these indigenous Australian dancers as they put on their own unique version of ‘Zorba the Greek.’ The music was composed for a 1964 classic movie, which starred Anthony Quinn.