Can saving life be penalised? In the UK, an experienced veterinarian has been reprimanded for taking home a cat she was instructed to euthanise. The veterinarian identified as Janine Parody reportedly took home a cat she was instructed to euthanise, and later charged the feline's owner nearly £500 ($655) for the animal's treatment.

Can saving a life be a crime? Vet faces reprimand after refusing to euthanise 'sweet young cat'

In Washington, the city's growing rat population has become a cause for concern. With warmer winters, a rising population, and the proliferation of outdoor dining areas after the Covid pandemic, the rat problem has been exacerbated.

'Primitive but effective': Washington turns to dogs and cats to help deal with rising rat problem

After more than five weeks since their plane crashed in a dense jungle, four children from an Indigenous community in Colombia have been miraculously found alive in the southern part of the country.

Miracle: Four Indigenous children rescued from dense Amazon jungle 40 days after plane crash

An autistic 11-year-old girl has completed her masters and will soon be receiving the degree. The prodigy belongs to Mexico City and has an impressive IQ of 162 — higher than the 160 of the greatest ever physicist of this generation, Stephen Hawking.

Autistic 11-year-old girl beats IQ scores of Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking

One moonless night a little more than a decade ago, Marie Dacke and Eric Warrant, animal vision experts from Lund University in Sweden, made a surprise discovery in South Africa.

What animals see in the stars, and what they stand to lose

On Oct. 30, 2015, a fire ripped through a nightclub in the Romanian capital, Bucharest, leaving 64 people dead. Almost six years later, a documentary about the fire and its tragic aftermath has been nominated for two Oscars.

Since the Oscar-nominated ‘Collective,’ much and little has changed

It was a February day so overcast that noon looked like dusk, and Frances McDormand felt a little rattled. She told me this as we ambled down the main street of the small coastal town where she lives, a modest, hidden place so far from Hollywood that studio searchlights would have a hard time finding it.

What Frances McDormand would (and wouldn’t) give to 'Nomadland'

An Austrian sportsman kept his cool on Saturday (September 5) and set a new world record for standing in a box full of ice cubes, lasting a teeth-chattering two hours, 30 minutes and 57 seconds.

Chilling out: Austrian breaks record for standing in box of ice

Stepping into the delivery room where his wife Emmanuelle was about to give birth, Edmond Khnaisser meant to capture their son's first moments on camera. Instead, he recorded the instant the biggest blast in Lebanon's history sent whole windows crashing onto his 28 year-old wife's hospital bed.

The story behind "miracle" baby George: a baby as old as Beirut's blast 

Twirling to hip hop over chasms of steel and glass, soapy squeegee in one hand and a smartphone in the other, Noa Toledo is an Israeli social-media star who hopes to encourage other women to rise to the challenge of male-dominated jobs.

Squeegee selfies: Meet Tel Aviv tower-washer turned rising TikTok star

Wearing a long green outfit that flows around his body as he dances on stage, 27-year-old Achref El Abed says he is defying gender roles in his native Tunisia by choosing a career as a male bellydancer.

Tunisian male belly dancer sways away from gender norms

An Ecuadorean teenager has set up an improvised school under a tree in a poor neighborhood of northern Guayaquil for some 40 students who haven't been able to study during the COVID-19 lockdown for lack of internet access.

Ecuador teen teaches class under a tree for kids without internet

A two-year-old boy in Luzhou City, southwest China's Sichuan Province, has recently become an internet sensation boasting 400,000 plus fans online with his incredible basketball skills.

2-year-old basketball boy becomes internet sensation

More than a thousand pets are currently stranded worldwide by the flight cancellations and border closures aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus pandemic

Stranded pets, desperate owners: coronavirus separates furry family members

For third-generation hawker Kristen Choong, the coronavirus pandemic wasn't the end of the world, but it hasn't been great for business. In early April, the beginning of Singapore's "circuit breaker", a self-styled lockdown aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus, business for her noodle stand fell about 90%.

Last generation Singapore hawker weathers the pandemic storm

Nine-year-old Malaysian schoolgirl Nur Afia Qistina Zamzuri didn't quite understand what the coronavirus was but she knew that it was dangerous. So when she heard that the local hospital was looking for people to sew protective gear, she immediately volunteered.

Wanting to help hospitals, Malaysian school girl sews dozens of PPEs

A Paris bakery losing 40 percent of its trade during the coronavirus lockdown is staying alive thanks to their French customers' love for baguettes and weakness for pastries.

Baguettes boost spirits for Paris bakery battered by lockdown

For patients in the critical care unit of Chile's San Borja Arriaran Hospital, recovery means long and lonely days in quarantine, cut off from contact with friends and family due to the coronavirus pandemic. But one critical care nurse is bringing tears of joy and moments of happiness to some of those patients through a pen pal letter writing program she started for them.

Pen pal letters bring joy to patients cut off from visits due to coronavirus restrictions

A neighbourhood in Indonesia's central Java province has deployed local 'ghosts' to patrol the streets and scare people into staying home in order to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus.

"Ghost" volunteers scare Indonesians into staying home

Born in 1908, the world's oldest living man and UK's oldest woman share a birthday of March 29, and both turned 112 on Sunday.

World's oldest man and UK's oldest woman celebrate turning 112

Every working day residents of Kalingrad can see the same picture: a sad husky on a leash sitting patiently near an office building, waiting for its owner, Svetlana Kutasheva. She believes it is better for her pet than sitting at home alone.

Husky waits for its owner outside everyday

Luxembourg abolished fares for trains, trams and buses on Saturday (February 29) in what the government said was a bid to tackle road congestion and pollution, as well as supporting low earners.

Luxembourg becomes first country to make public transport free

The Berlinale film festival is set to award its top prizes on Saturday (February 29) - but one lucky team member has already received a special honorary "Palm Dog".

Top dog prize for Berlinale pooch

As Skull Breaker Challenge goes viral across the globe, experts ask parents to keep their children away from this fatal challenge. It is not the first time that such a challenge has surfaced on social media. MoMo Challenge, KiKi Challenge and the horrific Blue Whale Challenge were successful enough in influencing children to take up the challenge.

Skull Breaker Challenge: Keep your kids away from this dangerous challenge

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