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An extremely rare bird has been born at a UK zoo for the first ever time -- with a face only its mother could love. The Philippine cockatoo chick, which has not yet been named, hatched last week weighing a tiny 0.207 lbs. But the chick quickly became a contender for the ugliest bird in the world with its saggy, featherless skin and crusting, undeveloped beak. It will, however, find comfort in the fact that one day he will grow...

An inventor has told how a Tory government pulled the plug on his revolutionary electric car - 40 years ago. The government last week announced it wanted Britain to become free of all petrol and diesel-powered cars by 2040. But Noel Hodson, 74, said we would have been a lot further down the road if Margaret Thatcher's officials had accepted his pioneering design back in 1980. Noel and his small team developed a hybrid petrol-electric car on a Mini chassis...

One of Britain's “most exquisite” butterflies which was almost extinct a century ago has seen a 138% rise in population. Experts say the warm weather and increased use of nettles as a food plant have resulted in the surge in numbers of the Comma over the last 40 years. The comeback kid has spread north 250 miles in England, Wales and the Isle of Man into southern and eastern Scotland. The Comma was teetering on the brink of extinction and...

Riot police have charged protestors in Dalston, Hackney, North London, after protests at the death of a local man during an arrest turned violent. Protesters had gathered in Kingsland Road, Hackney, after a non-violent vigil during the day, holding Black Lives Matter placards, and banners asking for answers from the IPCC investigation into the local lad’s death. But as riot police filled the streets and mattresses were set on fire, bottles and fireworks thrown, violence broke out about 8pm. Right...

A sea monster that hunted "like the great white shark" more than 250 million years ago has been dug up... in the Nevada! The six foot long beast had huge jaws and three parallel rows of razor sharp teeth - with several smaller ones inside its enormous mouth. Palaeontologist Dr Carlo Romano said the creature hunted similarly to the modern great white shark. It would have pursued its prey, then bitten it - before swallowing the hapless fish whole. Scientists...

Animal rescuers have found five PYTHONS slithering around a park - in LONDON. 'Monty', a four-foot-long royal python, was found on Wednesday night in Battersea Park, south London - making it the fifth foreign snake found there in as many weeks. Last month three juveniles and an adult were discovered, prompting concern from animal welfare officers. The python is native to sub-Saharan Africa and is a non-venomous constrictor and can grow to 5ft long. Animal rescuers have found five PYTHONS...

A vicar says words such as 'pride' and 'gay' are being "hijacked" by people who "seek to normalise LGBT activity as part of mainstream life". Reverend Melvin Tinker, slammed his fellow clergy for hosting a special service to mark Pride and LGBT 50 celebrations and said: "where there is light, there tends to be a shadow and so coinciding with this is a Gay Pride rally." Reverend Melvin Tinker. A vicar says words such as 'pride' and 'gay' are being...

A toddler has died after doctors discovered she had been pierced with seven PINS - as part of a sick ‘black magic’ ritual. The unnamed three-year-old was taken to hospital after her distraught mother discovered she had been allegedly sexually abused. Medics in Kolkata, West Bengal, in India, removed seven two-inch-long pins from her body - some of which had punctured her organs. Horrifying X-ray pictures show at least seven two-inch long pins stuck inside a three-year-old girl by a...

These photographs show the ghostly wreck of a steamship which sank on Christmas Eve 117 years ago. Lodged in the sands of the Severn Estuary, the remains of the boat were captured by sonar imagining for the first time. It was thought to be cargo vessel The Brunswick, which overturned in deep fog when she ran aground on a sandbank. Sailors who escaped with their lives eventually managed to retrieve the bodies of three men who were in the cabins...