Sixteen of the Hampstead and Westminster Hockey Club men’s first team took part in the shoot after a former teammate was diagnosed with non-hodgkin’s lymphoma.

When a man attached his friend’s GoPro video camera to his dog’s collar, he might have expected some food and sofa-related high-jinks. Unlike Home Alone’s Kevin McCallister, this dog does not destroy the family home or tick off everything normally prohibited. Instead the dog appeared to persistently pine for its master looking through different windows to see if he is returning. The […]

These puppies are really cute, for now (Picture: West Midlands Police) These puppies may look cute now but wait until they get older and they’re chasing you down a dark alley way. The animals are currently being trained by West Midlands Police and will eventually be able to locate drugs, firearms, cash and explosives. ‘CUTE […]

Neuroscientists from Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania, and the University of California, San Diego, analysed zombie behaviour in films and linked to to brain structure.

Representatives from an independent cyber intelligence company briefed FBI agents on findings which indicate that disgruntled former Sony staff and piracy-advocates were behind the hack.

Warning: May just make you feel a little sick… (deep breath) Yep, we all know what that smells like (Picture: CEN) Shoppers in a busy commercial street were left covered in human excrement after an overfilled septic tank exploded. The foul incident took place when the tank on board a truck erupted in Hechi City in […]

Typing a sentence with your nose sounds like an impressive achievement at the best of times. But when you manage to break a Guinness World Record by typing 103 words with your snout in 47.44 seconds, it’s incredible. Mohammed Khursheed Hussain, 23, from Hyderabad, India, managed the impressive feat after enduring six-hour practice sessions every […]

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 […]

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It’s definitely been the year of the animal (Picture: Metro) There were plenty of heartwarming, inspirational and outright insane stories involving animals this year, so picking just a few was tough. But these cute creatures won out in the end because they showed great character in very testing (and weird) times. 10. Chris P Bacon, the piglet […]

The Rubik’s Cube is a challenge of mental agility (Picture: Reuters) It was Christmas last week, which means if we were living in the 80s many of us would be struggling with Rubik’s cubes left for us by Santa right now. Amazingly, some people still play with these infuriating fun puzzles, claiming they actually enjoy the challenge. […]

Sarah King, 37, from Billericay in Essex, began weightlifting seven years ago and has since smashed several records as well as winning a host of medals. She can lift up to 29st.

The two-year-old boy – described as the index case, or patient zero – became infected and was the first to die in his village in Meliandou, Guinea.