Shocking video captures the moment a 3-year-old girl was dropped into a bear pit at a zoo in Uzbekistan by her mother, who is being investigated for attempted murder. The distressing footage from Tashkent shows the child being dropped into a trench about 16 feet below the railing as the hulking bear, named Zuzu, walks by and sniffs the child, East2West News reported.

"I love to go into painfully small detail with some very tiny paintbrushes."

French artist Thierry Cohen imagines the world’s largest cities under clear night skies.

A retired business consultant has walked the equivalent of the circumference of the Earth without leaving his home city. Vinod Bajaj, 70, walked 40,075 kilometres over the past four years in Limerick, in the west of Ireland. He has encouraged others to keep active in the midst of the pandemic.

Newly released footage shows a Florida man rescuing his dog from the grasp of an alligator, an unexpected moment captured on film by a project designed to monitor local wildlife. The dramatic video shows the man jumping into waist-deep pond water after the alligator dragged the dog underwater. The man submerges his whole arm to bring the small dog to the surface, with the small alligator still latched on.

It’s the thing nightmares are made of, and for one mother in Taiwan the nightmare became reality at the 2020 International Kite Festival. A three-year-old girl surnamed Lin became wrapped up in the tail of a giant kite. As soon as the adults released the kite into the sky, the girl was immediately pulled into the sky where her body was violently swung around like a rag doll.

Gaining admission to Oxford, the prestigious British university thought to be better than pretty much every American Ivy League school besides Harvard, is a major achievement at any age. However, the fact that Joshua Beckford attended the school at only 6 years old is absolutely mind-blowing.

That tickle in your throat? It could be allergies, irritation or even COVID-19. But here's one explanation that may not be on your radar: a worm wriggling in your tonsils.

Emma Wren Gibson, frozen as an embryo in 1992, was born a few days after Thanksgiving in 2017, more than 25 years later. It’s the longest an embryo is known to have been frozen before being born as baby. In fact, the embryo that became Emma is only a year younger than the woman who gave birth to her, Tina Gibson. “This embryo and I could have been best friends,” Gibson, now 26, told CNN. Tina and her husband “adopted” the frozen embryo after learning he was likely infertile.

A six-year-old girl was attacked by a 160-pound mountain lion as she was walking through a park and was rescued just in time when an adult that was nearby punched the cat in the ribs. The incident occurred on Sunday morning just before 10 a.m. in the Rancho San Antonio County Park and Open Space Preserve in Santa Clara County, California...

Three months after his bone marrow transplant, Chris Long of Reno, Nevada, learned that the DNA in his blood had changed. It had all been replaced by the DNA of his donor, a German man he had exchanged just a handful of messages with.

Eli Boroditsky was driving to his night shift last week on a narrow rural road in Manitoba, Canada, when his car hit what he thought was a dog streaking across the dark road. After he clipped the animal, it flew into the ditch on the shoulder. He parked and used a small flashlight to get a look. "I thought it was a German shepherd or a husky," he told CNN news partner CBC. "I didn't think it was a wild animal."

A man has had a 12cm-long flesh-eating tapeworm removed from his head which had been slowly eating his brain for the past 15 years. Wang Lei first started to feel numbness down his left side in 2007, and has continued to suffer with fail health ever since.

A team of researchers at the University of Richmond have taught rats to drive mini-cars - and not only are the rodents good at it, they enjoy it too. The scientists built the rat-sized vehicles out of clear plastic food containers, with three copper bars that served as a steering wheel.

A group of suspected drug traffickers ended up coming to the rescue of three police officers chasing them after their boats collided at sea. The bizarre turn of events took place off the coast of the Costa del Sol on Friday, as the Spanish maritime patrol agents were trying to intercept a boat suspected to be carrying narcotics.

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One of the coolest things I've ever seen.

Physicist and keen tennis player Andria Rogava reveals the secret behind his bizarre tennis-ball pyramids

A shipment of illegal garbage that ended up in the Philippines nearly six years ago will be returned to Canada by the end of June 2019.

A Vancouver Island woman who was photographing a pair of bald eagles last week had a close call after the birds got a little too up close and personal.