A Cambridge University college has paid tribute to an "exceptional" PhD student who was among 18 victims of a terror attack in Burkina Faso. Tammy Chen, 34, who was pregnant, was at a restaurant with her husband Mehsen Fenaiche when they were gunned down on Sunday. Chen was studying for...
A snake hitched a free ride from Costa Rica to the UK on a PINEAPPLE before it was discovered by a shocked shopper. The Scottish SPCA was called out to Tryst Park, Edinburgh after the reptile was found hiding between the leaves of the fruit on Tuesday. A snake hitched...
Staff at the London Stock Exchange have been offered counselling after a financial worker in his fifities jumped to his death yesterday (Tues). The lobby and reception area of the exchange, where the man landed after falling seven stories, remains closed to workers today as police continue their investigation. An...
Midnight snacks can cause wrinkles and even skin cancer, according to new research. Eating at the wrong time of day disrupts the body's internal clock, reducing protection against the sun. This is because it weakens the potency of a protein that blocks harmful ultraviolet radiation, explained scientists. The discovery follows...
An extinct rainforest tree has been identified from its beautiful flowers - dislodged by a rampaging dinosaur 100 million years ago. A Triceratops or Tyrannosaurus rex could have been crashing its way through a pine forest when it knocked off the blooms, which then became trapped in chunks of amber....
A national road campaigner believes he has uncovered Britain's worst pothole - which is 45 FEET long. The giant crater first appeared on Bellwater Bank in Boston, Lincs., six years ago and angry residents have been asking their council to fix it ever since. The 14 metre hole, which is...
A millionaire banker claims he gave a reading twice over the drink-drive limit because he had thrown up moments before the breath test, a court heard. Stephen Decani is accused of being twice above the drink drive limit in his £150,000 Aston Martin DB11 coupe on Kings Road in Chelsea,...
A new species of damselfly dating back more than 70 million years has become the latest creature to be named after veteran TV naturalist Sir David Attenborough. The discovery was made in the Hukawng Valley of Kachin Province in Myanmar. The fossil was found in a piece of mid-Cretaceous Burmese...
A university has 'banned' a 250-year-old erotic novel over fears students might get offended over the racy book. Royal Holloway, University of London, took Fanny Hill off student's reading lists "in case it upsets them", according a professor at the institution . The novel, also known as Memoirs of a...