A premature baby boy who was born on during a flight from Penang to Kuching, has been named after the airline Air Asia. Mid-flight expectant mother Liew Siaw Hsia give birth at 2,000 feet with the help of a doctor who was handily on-board and the pl...

Swarms of budgerigars are said to be plaguing areas of Queensland in Australia after a prolonged breeding period. Flooding of river systems in the region earlier this year has meant there is an abundance of grass seeds - the preferred food of budgies.

Lazy office workers rejoice. Today is the most unproductive day of the year, it has been revealed Researchers claim productivity will drop by 50 per cent today as depressed staff around the country struggle to come to terms with the dark nights clo...

English language experts have spent more than 45 years compiling the world's largest thesaurus. It contains nearly 800,000 meanings, organised into more than 236,000 categories and subcategories collected together over 4,500 pages. The project ...

Though Jamie Oliver would like you to believe otherwise, being a chef is the most unhealthy profession in the UK. Researchers have found chefs eat more junk food and ready meals, smoke more cigarettes and drink more booze than any other workers.


A UK zoo is celebrating the rare birth of baby pygmy hippo - by releasing these photos of the cute critter. The healthy female - who has not yet been named - was born to her eight-year-old mother Venus on Friday the 27th November and has been getting...

Scientists say an iceberg nearly twice the size of Hong Kong is currently on a collision course with Australia. The giant iceberg - which measures 87 square miles and weights 200 billion tonnes - and broke off from the Antarctic 10 years ago. Since...

Researchers claim they can now scientifically answer the age-old question "Which are better, dogs or cats?" A team from New Scientist magazine looked at the various benefits of each pet across 11 traits - before coming to a considered conclusion....

Turquoise will be the colour which best epitomises 2010, experts have claimed. Bosses at Pantone - a company that supplies and tracks colour - say the greeny-blue (or bluey-green) evokes thoughts of tropical waters and restores our sense of...

Fancy racing ridiculously fast vehicles, but can't be bothered to drag yourself up from the sofa? This could be just what you need. A company is offering the chance to drive some of the world's most bizarre vehicles - such as an sofa, a motorised desk...