Evan van der Spuy, a mountain biker of Team Jeep South Africa, was knocked off from his bike after being mown down by a charging antelope in an incredible video that has gone viral, garnering almost 2 million views since it was posted on YouTube yesterday. Evan was taking part in a mountain bike race across South Africa’s Albert Falls ...

Little Rohan Ajit Kokane gracefully slid into the Guinness Book of World Records after performing the furthest ever roller-skating limbo. The flexible lad managed to skate under an incredible 20 cars reaching an incredible distance of 126 ft 11 in (38.68 metres) while performing the SPLITS during the stunt at the Juhu Aerodrome in Mumbai, India, in February. The record ...

Herbert Chavez must be the world’s biggest Superman fan. The 35-year-old Filipino is so obsessed with the Man of Steel that he underwent several plastic surgery procedures just to look like his favorite superhero. Herbert first went under the knife in 1995 to transform himself into the comic book character and over the ensuing years, he has undergone several other ...

The proposal of marriage is an event where one person in a relationship asks for the other’s hand in marriage. If accepted, it marks the initiation of engagement. It often has a ritual quality, sometimes involving the presentation of an engagement ring and a formalized asking of the question “Will you marry me?”. In western culture, it is traditional for ...

An Arab sheikh forked out over $10 million to acquire the world’s first Superbus and fly it to the UAE with a jumbo jet, where it will be used to travel between Abu Dhabi and Dubai. The hi-tech bus will travel the 75-mile distance between the two cities in under 30 minutes. Buses have never been the most glamorous form ...

Once upon a time in 2003, 20-year-old Trang Vu met 24-year-old Nam Tran on the campus of University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) when she attended a workshop Nam was teaching.  No, it wasn’t love at first sight. They didn’t start dating until 2007. Fast-forward to 2011… Nam and Trang have been together four and a half years, and Nam ...

Meet Alfred David, the man known affectionately as “Monsieur Pingouin” (Mr Penguin) by the people of Brussels, Belgium. The Belgian eccentric almost always walks around the neighbourhood of Schaerbeek in his big penguin suit and even “talks” like a penguin. Anyone seeing him waddling through the backstreets of Brussels will think he is on his way to a fancy dress ...

Japanese engineering company Cosmo Power has developed a modern, miniature version of Noah’s Ark Ark built to withstand earthquakes and tsunamis.  It is basically a floating capsule that looks like a huge tennis ball. Dubbed Noah’s capsules – after the ark which survived biblical floods – the 4-feet-in-diameter enhanced fiberglass capsule is designed to withstand giant waves and flooding thus ...

Duolang sheep from Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region – dubbed the “Treasure of Xinjiang” with only around 1,000 left in the world – are becoming vogue as the pets and status symbols of the super-rich in China. Also known as Maigaiti by the locals, it is a crossbreed between a local sheep species and a fat-rumped one introduced from Afghanistan. The ...

Fans from all over the world are mourning the loss of Heidi — the cross-eyed German opossum whose cute but confused countenance had captured hearts around the world. The Leipzig Zoo said Wednesday that the three-and-a-half-year-old opossum had been listless and unable to move for several weeks due to acute arthritis. A decision was made to put her down ‘to ...