An extremely rare antique, decorative egg designed by the legendary Russian jeweller Peter Carl Faberg has been unearthed at a second-hand goods market in the USA. A scrap dealer bought the golden egg at a bric-a-brac stall for $13,000. The unnamed t...
The government in Kenya has agreed on a new law on marriage. It has made many female politicians very angry. The Marriage Bill allows men to have as many wives as they want. Men will soon be able to marry other women without even telling their wife....
Researchers at the Harvard Business School claim that people who do not follow normal fashion get more respect from others. Doctoral student Silvia Bellezza and two of her colleagues examined how we view the social status and competence of people who...
A new survey from an internet-based market research company shows the things British people are most afraid of. Top of the list is heights. Over half of the people who took the survey said they had acrophobia the medical name for the fear of heights....
One of the largest circus companies in the USA will soon no longer have performing elephants as part of its shows. The Ringling Brothers and Barnum amp; Bailey Circus said it would stop using elephants by 2018. All the 43 animals it currently uses wi...
China's box office takings have beaten those in the USA for the first time ever. China's movie theatres are now the world's most lucrative. This is the result of millions of moviegoers flocking to cinemas across China during the nation's week-long Ne...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced for the first time that South-East Asia is now free frompolio. The WHO certified 11 countries as being clear of the disease. The WHO website said: This is the fourth of six WHO regions to be certified...
Many people in England are angry that drivers park their cars on the pavements. Cars that are on the pavement block people from walking safely down the street. They have to walk into the road to get around the cars. The charity for the blind, Guide D...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) is worried that 1.1 billion teenagers and people in their twenties andearly thirties are damaging their hearing by listening to loud music. It says nearly half the young peoplein middle- and high-income countries r...
Scientists have come up with answers to the age-old question of why eyelashes are the length they are. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology conducted a variety of tests on the lashes of 22 differentmammals. One was to create a special w...