Australia seizes 100,000 cockroaches in bug-breeder bust
Wildlife officers have busted an illegal cockroach-breeding operation in rural Australia, seizing a skin-crawling haul worth more than $100,000 on the black market for exotic bugs...
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Living like sultans: Istanbul’s pampered street cats
Kanyon is getting fat: since someone stole his basket, this white cat with grey markings who lives at an Istanbul shopping centre has been showered with snacks, love and affection...
India brothers marry same woman in ancient custom
A pair of brothers in rural India have married the same woman, upholding an ancient custom and sparking criticism from a women’s rights group after photos of the wedding went viral...
BBC celebrates 100 years of ‘poetic’ shipping forecast
Modern seafarers can now rely on sophisticated forecasting technology but the calm, rhythmic delivery of the forecast by one of BBC Radio 4’s silky-voiced continuity announcers has turned the forecast into something of a beloved British institution...
Carlsen quits chess championship after jeans row
Carlsen, five-time world chess champion, was asked to change his clothes on Friday at the World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships after falling foul of the governing body’s regulations...
Three United States children discover remains of teen T-Rex
What did you do for summer vacation? Three pre-teen dinosaur aficionados have the answer of a lifetime— they discovered the remains of a rare juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex in the North Dakota dirt...