If you drilled a hole in New Zealand so that a straight line could run through the centre of the Earth, you would eventually make a hole in North-West of Spain. It’s the principle of antipodes. More inside the post.
The biggest weekend box office receipts - see the list after the jump.
You still think you have the worst job ever? Check out what this zoo keeper is able to do for one of his monkeys in need.
A chart showing which companies the popular brands belong to.
A 19-year-old girl who stopped growing at the age of 2 is being held by her 17-year-old younger sister.
No, this is not snow. This is how looks the polluted waters of the Yamuna River in New Delhi, India.
Iraqi boy in an orphanage drew his mother and slept in her arms.
Remus Medley walks on his hands across the finish line of the 116th Boston Marathon after his legs cramped up.
What does it look like? Tip: It has nothing to do with trees.
The tiny blue dot in the middle of the brown stripe at the top of the image is our planet Earth seen from the distance of 6 billion kilometers.
Wow, it's like the imaginary technologies that could recently be seen only in sci-fi movies are applied in the real life nowadays.
Richard Norris is seen before and after his face transplant surgery. Surgeons from the University of Maryland Medical Centre performed what they said was the world's most comprehensive face transplant, after a gun accident that almost took Norris's life 15 years ago.
This can be truly called a "diamond ring." But I wonder who will buy it for such a price. More information after the jump.
NASA released composite image of the night sky with over half a billion stars stitched together from 2.7 million pictures.
British Transport Police have issued these CCTV images of two youths deliberately leaving a bicycle on the tracks at Bedhampton, Hampshire resulting in a "blinding" explosion when a train collided with the cycle.
More than 17 m of snow have fallen this year in Hokkaido, Japan.
Jupiter and its moon Io. The red dot is a volcano on the moon's surface and the blue cloud is the volcano's emissions.
The picture of a race car not bigger than a grain of sand.
This man was struck by lightning and here’s his scar, known as Lichtenberg scar.
It’s like getting a tattoo from Zeus :P
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