You've seen Vladimir Putin the bomber pilot, judo expert and fisherman - but tiger tamer?

A 97-year-old grandmother has travelled 2,400 kilometres by tricycle to watch the Chinese badminton team in action at the Beijing Olympics.

A koala emerged with barely a scratch after riding for miles with its head stuck in the grille of a car, Australian wildlife rescuers said Tuesday.

Britain's Oxford University has accepted a 17-year-old from Hong Kong on one of its doctorate programmes, making him one of the famed university's youngest such students, a report said Wednesday.

One minute George Chandler and a friend were nailing boards and lattice, and the next minute the 60-year-old from Shawnee, Kansas had a five-centimeter nail embedded in his skull and brain.

In a town in western Japan, a nine-year-old cat is the stationmaster of a train station.

Icarus crashed and burned when he flew too close to the sun but a modern-day Swiss adventurer had a happier landing on Wednesday when testing his new jet-powered "wing".

A team of scientists believe they can provide the key to an enduring wildlife mystery: how do birds navigate?

A chicken breeder located at Sitiawan Simpang Dua came across a curious looking bug on his chicken farm on Wednesday (April 23).

The world's oldest living tree on record is a nearly 10,000 year-old spruce that has been discovered in central Sweden, Umeaa University said on Thursday.