Popstar Lady Gaga has got a new bug named after her. The newly discovered treehopper species was given its new alias after its “wacky fashion sense” led to comparisons with the singer. University of Illinois PhD candidate, Brendan Morris, was observing 1,000 treehoppers for his research project when he discovered one female bug with unconventional…

A man was killed after being slashed by blade tied to a rooster in a cockfight in India, police said on Thursday. The incident draws attention to the controversial practice, which continues in the country on a large scale despite a ban. The victim, Saripalli Venkateswara Rao, 53, was holding the rooster at a death-match…

It seems Marvel may have a new Avengers character. A German shepherd, in North Carolina, has given birth to a puppy whose fur is a bright shade of green. The unusual puppy was born alongside seven other pups, which came out a normal color. The dog named Gypsy was in labour for three hours, Shana…

Hangovers maybe temporary but drunk stories are forever and a student in Croatia found a way to immortalize them. Rino Dubokovic, a university student in Zagreb, was out enjoying drinks with his friends when they started swapping their funniest hangover stories, CNN Travel reports. Suddenly, an idea dawned on him: "Some sort of collection where…

If you were to ask your grandparents a secret diet to a long life, sand and gravel will surely not be on the menu. However, Kusma Vati from Varanasi, an 80-year-old woman in India has left many shocked after she admitted that she has been eating sand and gravel for the last 65 years. According to her, she…

A single mum of two identified as Bekki has tied the knot with her favorite rug named Mat and enjoying a relaxing honeymoon at home in Greater Manchester. During the intimate hour-long service Bekki, who was dressed in a traditional all-white wedding dress for the occasion, promised to love, honor and care for Mat ‘till…

We all know the story of Daniel in the bible and how he was involuntarily thrown into a lion’s den. But, in the case of Myah Autry, this happened on free will. Autry shot to notoriety after climbing into a lion’s enclosure at a zoo in the Bronx, New Jersey. She danced in front of…

Every job comes with its own hazard more so if one happens to be an engineer or in any field that poses a high risk of losing a limb or two. For Flertin Baby, a 33-year-old elevator engineer from Kerala in India, the latter was his predicament; he was working on an elevator in a…

The Saharan silver ant not only bites, it outruns other ants. Now tagged the fastest of the world's 12,000 known ant species, the Saharan Silver ant recently clocked a blistering 855 millimetres -- nearly a metre -- per second, researchers said Thursday. Measured another way, the six-legged sprinter covers 108 times its own body length…

Two Kenyan women living in Busia country have left many shocked after reports that they swapped husbands in a bid to find happiness surfaced in the media. The two women identified as 28-year-old Lilian Weta, a mother of three and 29-year-old Millicent Auma, a mother of two found themselves becoming online sensations after it emerged…

A southern India woman may have just set a new world record after giving birth to twins in her mid-70s. Mangayamma Yaramati ― whose age has been reported as both 73 and 74 ― gave birth on Thursday to two little girls who were conceived via in vitro fertilization. Doctors delivered the girls via Caesarean…