Riding a unicycle is one thing. Riding a unicycle down a mountain is quite another. The activity that has, for a long time, rarely been seen outside of the multicoloured canvas walls of the circus has found a new and loyal following in the form of adrenaline junkies and extreme sport enthusiasts. MORE: Bangkok BASE jump goes badly […]

Mohammed Solebi risked his life to reach Calais, smuggled from the war-divided Middle East with nothing but his Syrian passport in a plastic bag, and he now hopes to live in Britain.

a happy chap, but definitely NOT a panda (Picture: Corpo Forestale dello Stato) If you attended a circus in Italy recently to see some pandas you might have been a little disappointed – probably because the ‘pandas’ were just painted dogs. Police seized several of the ‘pandas’ from a circus in Brescia, Italy, after locals paid to […]

Taking instructions from an urban slang expert, John Humphreys (pictured) and Justin Webb said ‘bro’, ‘rude-boy’ and ‘blud’ as part of their early morning broadcast exploring the vocabulary ‘of the street’.

Pepper the pug, who lives in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, with her owner Nicola Galpin, owes her life to Babygros and onesies after being born with a debilitating stretchy skin condition.

Although Ms McAllister wasn’t X-rayed, this is what it might have looked like if she was (Picture: WN.com) A woman recently managed to sneak a gun past no less than four prison guards with an unusual (and highly dangerous) technique. Josephine McAllister, 34, allegedly smuggled the handgun into the metropolitan detention centre in Albuquerque by hiding […]

The Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747 with more than 450 people on board was meant to go to Las Vegas but returned to London at 3.45pm after developing a technical fault shortly after take-off.

One of the most notorious feuds in celebrity history – the battle between fiery Marco Pierre White and foul-mouthed Gordon Ramsay – has finally ended, writes GIRL ABOUT TOWN.

A new study reviewing the link between personality and academic achievement found that students who are rated higher in openness and conscientiousness tended to receive better grades.

Now Brussels has come up with a new way to force us to save energy – and it will be particularly hard to swallow for coffee lovers.

Both Harris (pictured) and her TV director husband Michael Margolis had a bankruptcy petition filed against them by the taxman at Kingston upon Thames County Court.

‘Hello, Yes I’d like to report some stick insects please.’ (Picture: File) It’s been a great year for unwarranted emergency service calls, thanks to the man who rang 999 after his pizza took 45 minutes to arrive, and the woman who rang because her cat was giving her a ‘strange look’. There’s one more late […]

Adrian Tyndall, 44, (left) from Altrincham, Greater Manchester, died in August after sending his wife, BBC Breakfast producer Lahra, (right) 41, a text message reading ‘I came back to the villa and you were gone’.