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London Zoo has launched an appeal to find a mate for a 'gorgeously ugly' tropical fish that is on the brink of extinction. The Mangarahara cichlid - described as a 'connoisseur's type of fish' (in other words, even a fish probably wouldn't fancy it much) - is thought to have disappeared from the wild because its habitat dried up as a result of ...

A US couple has appealed for the safe return of two aliens who were abducted from their front garden in broad daylight. While it's usually aliens taking humans to galaxies far away, Virginia residents Robert and Dian Bolling have claimed the opposite. The pair have combed their neighbourhood and put up posters in an attempt to be reunited wi...

Many of us would love to travel for free on the underground. It seems it is possible, but there's a slight catch - we would have to be born at a station. At least that's the case for one baby who was delivered at a station in Mexico City and has now been given the privilege of never having to pay for a ticket again. The baby's 22-year-old mo...

A man has been filmed being driven along clinging to the bonnet of a car after a driver allegedly accelerated into him following a dispute. Elton Kim could never have imagined his day would end up with him being driven down an open road while he clung on for dear life. But that's exactly what happened in Roswell, Georgia, when he got into an...

A driver will probably be bemused when he returns to his vehicle to find the car park around it has vanished. Rather than actually disappearing into thin air, the surrounding area has been demolished after construction workers in Taiyuan, Shanxi, China, grew impatient. They had been waiting for the driver to return for 10 days in order to co...