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Report on Austrian Times english news online newspaper: Chinese villagers that got together to extinguish a small forest fire discovered it had been caused when a giant snake known to have lived in the nearby woodland that had been struck by...

BELIZE CITY — A construction company has essentially destroyed one of Belize's largest Maya pyramids with backhoes and bulldozers to extract crushed rock for a road-building project, authorities announced Monday.

Researchers in Germany have found that people who frequently use first-person singular words like "I," "me," and "myself," are

A hi-tech pair of pyjamas can now read your kids a bedtime story. Once upon a time, parents thought nothing of doing this themselves - and long may that tradition continue, argues mother Laura Perrins.

Henry Gribbohm says he lost his life savings, $2,600, on a carnival game and all he has to show for it is a stuffed banana with dreadlocks.

A newly discovered catering-type site fed 10,000 pyramid workers a day, with lots of meat.

LOVE can last beyond the grave as shocked archaeologists working in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, discovered.

Thanks to swim-with programs, some stingrays in the Cayman Islands are no longer nocturnal creatures.

What's the wildest thing you've encountered in a public bathroom? Broken toilet? Spent cherry bomb? Person confused about the bathroom door's gender symbols? Tiger?

Einstein the goldfish, who had lost the ability to swim, is afloat once more after his owner made him a special buoyant frame.

The builders of the famous Giza pyramids feasted on food from a massive catering-type operation, the remains of which scientists have discovered at a workers'

Radioactive iron may be first fossil imprint of a nearby cosmic explosion.

Swaziland has launched a crackdown on high-flying witches after banning them from hovering above 150metres.

Tiny middle ear bones belonging to two of our australopith forebears reveal that the hominins lacked our sensitivity to speech frequencies

High testosterone didn't save soldiers in World War II.

Worshippers are gathering to pray to a vegetable that looks like a Hindu god.More than 80 people have so far visited a small temple at a catering company in Leicester where an aubergine that resembles...

Shuttlecock manufacturers in eastern China say their businesses are under threat as the spread of the H9N7 bird-flu virus leads to a feather shortage

Authorities are seeking to determine whether criminal charges should be brought against a Newtown man they say stored as much as 300 gallons of human urine in his home.

A microbiologist has found that the price we pay for preservative-free deliciousness comes in the shape of five nasty-looking funghi

Tribe chief leaves behind 447 children and grand children…

Researchers revisit measurements to determine the temperature of the Earth's core, finding it to be 6,000C - as hot as the surface of the Sun.

Scientists Richard Gordon and Alexei Sharov have suggested that if the rate of increase in the complexity of biological systems in the course of evolutionary history followed Moore's Law then life existed before the Earth was formed.

Nasa's $800m Mars Exploration Rovers have accidentally drawn a penis. The twin exploration vehicles Spirit and Opportunity were launched nine years ago, in an effort to search the surface of Mars for signs of water erosion and possibly even life.