A boat made out of 12,500 recycled plastic bottles has reached dry land after sailing across the Pacific Ocean.
The Plastiki – a 60ft catamaran – arrived in Sydney Harbour with its six-member crew four months after setting out from San Francisco.
The crew, who had to cope with fierce storms during their 8,000 nautical miles at sea, [...]
Rock band the Kings of Leon have been forced to end a concert early after pigeons defecated on them from the rafters of a US venue.
The rockers abandoned the gig in St Louis after three songs when bass player Jared Followill was hit in the mouth and face by pigeon droppings.
Drummer Nathan Followill later apologised [...]
Researchers in Britain have been credited with cracking the age-old conundrum about the chicken and the egg. But are they right?
After the publication of the rather dry-sounding scientific paper, “Structural Control of Crystal Nuclei by an Eggshell Protein,” press headlines proclaimed the answer was… the chicken.
However, one of the paper’s lead authors, Colin Freeman, from [...]
Manchester United shirts have been banned in Malaysia after the red devil crest was labelled “dangerous and un-Islamic”.
Thousands of fans have reacted angrily to the decision by Muslim clerics – with some accusing them of supporting Premier League arch-rivals Liverpool.
Despite the Old Trafford side having an estimated 81 million followers in Asia, one senior cleric [...]
Keith Chegwin has come under fire for allegedly plagiarising other comedians’ routines. But does intellectual property law protect jokes?
Have you heard the one about Keith Chegwin standing accused of stealing gags?
The comedian has been attacked for supposedly posting other comics’ material on his Twitter feed and passing it off as his own – a charge [...]
Thanks to the age-old art of bartering, a California teenager became the envy of all his friends when he pulled into school in a Porsche convertible.
Steven Ortiz, 17, dreamed of one day owning a luxury sports car — a dream that became reality after he posted a used cell phone on Craigslist.
“My friend gave me [...]
Two sailing instructors have told of the shocking moment a 40-ton whale came crashing down onto their yacht off the South African coast.
Ralth Mothes, 59, and his partner Paloma Werner, 50, were watching the beast at a distance, near Cape Town, when it moved towards their 32ft-vessel Intrepid.
“I thought, ‘Surely, it can’t be on a [...]
The noisy horns were one of the biggest talking points of the 2010 World Cup, but vuvuzelas are unlikely to take hold in British football stadiums in the upcoming season.
Eight English Premier League clubs have banned the South African instruments ahead of the August 14 kick-off of the 2010-11 campaign, calling them potential weapons, annoyances [...]
Auction site operator eBay has reported a 26% rise in profits for the last three months thanks largely to increased use of its PayPal service.
Profits for the quarter totalled $412m (£272m), the company said, up from $327m a year ago.
Sales were up 20% internationally, but rose only 2% in the US, demonstrating its reliance on [...]
Genetics experts have been amazed by the birth of a blonde, blue-eyed white baby – to a black couple.
Doctors insist tiny Nmachi is not an albino and neither of the parents has any mixed-race family history.
Dad Ben Ihegboro, 44, a railway customer services adviser, said: “We both just sat there after the birth staring at [...]
