Found four days old after his front legs were allegedly amputated by a weed whacker Mercury’s right arm stops just before the elbow and his left arm goes slightly after the elbow and his left rear foot only has one toe. Mercury’s owners say he is not a candidate for a prothestic leg on either front limb, since he would need at least 40% of the limb intact. After he […]

Fast-growing startup WhatsApp was the talk of tech town on Thursday after social media giant Facebook announced a $19 billion buyout of the mobile-messaging application. While the deal created an instant global buzz, an Indian took centrestage in the aftermath.   Having crossed 450 million active users, WhatsApp’s business head Neeraj Arora (35) has had a lot on his plate in the past few months. He told an Indian business […]

Marwan, four, was found by UN workers near the border of Syria and Jordan after he was separated from his family The little boy, one of one million children forced to flee Syria since the conflict began, was reunited with his mother 130,000 killed and 2.5 million forced to flee the country in the ‘disgraceful humanitarian calamity’ of the Syrian civil war A heartbreaking picture has emerged of a little […]

Chengdu Zoo visitors photographed a man climb inside the tiger pen Yang Jinhai, 27, behaved erratically and danced around the animals One of them retreated, but another dragged him around the enclosure He escaped unharmed after being restrained by zoo officials Chinese zoo keepers managed to save the life of a mentally disturbed man after he announced he wanted to improve the lives of caged tigers at a local zoo […]

  STORY HIGHLIGHTS NEW: “Treasure pulled out of the sea” Fisherman Jwdat Abu Ghrb says he discovered the statue off Gaza The statue appeared on eBay with a starting price of $500,000, authorities say When Jwdat Abu Ghrb spotted a dark shape last summer in the waters off Gaza, where he was diving for fish, he initially thought it was a corpse. “I was afraid,” he told CNN. “I put […]

Winds gusting at speeds exceeding 100mph are battering parts of the UK after the Met Office issued its first “red warning” of the winter, meaning there could be a risk to life. “I’m the landlady of the Cove House Inn in Chiswell and we were hit by a session of massive waves last Wednesday. It was very, very scary – very rough. The waves must have been about 100ft high […]

‘What may be cute at age two or age five may be acutely embarrassing at age 13’ Bhargavi Varma is doing her part to help her son define his digital footprint by establishing a Twitter account in his name — even if he isn’t old enough to type the posts. The Toronto mom is an avid social media user, with her own Twitter and Instagram accounts and a Tumblr blog […]

  STORY HIGHLIGHTS New cases of cancer are tipped to rise 57% worldwide in 20 years, says the WHO World Cancer Report says developing countries will be disproportionately hit Even rich countries will struggle to deal with the spiraling costs of treatment WHO: With many cancers preventable, a renewed focus on prevention is essential Cancer cases are expected to surge 57% worldwide in the next 20 years, an imminent “human […]

  STORY HIGHLIGHTS Beijing-based tour company posts exclusive photos and video taken from North Korea’s “luxury ski resort” The resort has a 120-room luxury hotel and 11 ski runs The tour company runs into Dennis Rodman and North Korean pop girl group during visit Skiing is not the first thing that immediately springs to mind when thinking about North Korea. But a luxury resort in the isolated nation is now […]

The family living in the house was unharmed in the incident Dramatic pictures have been released showing the destruction wrought by a huge boulder that smashed through a farm in Northern Italy after being dislodged by a landslide. The massive rock narrowly missed a farm house, destroyed a barn, and stopped in a vineyard at the property in Ronchi di Termeno. A second giant boulder detached during the landslide stopped […]