A Belfast woman who cared for a baby elephant in her back garden during the war years has finally been identified.

The ‘elephant angel’ was Denise Weston Austin, who was one of the first female zoo keepers in Belfast Zoo.

Update on this post. picked by AutumnLotus 8 months ago

It looked like a scene from a comedy sketch show - the moment a cow attempted to leap over a woman - and the donkey she was with appeared to collapse to the floor laughing. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

A Texan woman has dialled 911 because she didn't get enough shrimp in her fried rice. picked by AutumnLotus 8 months ago

A woman who worked for the United Nations died Sunday after falling from the 19th floor of the U.N.'s Secretariat Building, authorities said. picked by dollyllama 2 years ago

A local woman is under arrest on charges she used a bad check and then stolen credit card information to pay for her breast augmentation surgery. picked by Bornbad 9 months ago

A woman with an inoperable brain tumour is spending £40,000 on plastic surgery – so she can die looking like movie star Demi Moore. picked by AutumnLotus 9 months ago

Video offers "proof" of a freaky Japanese urban legend involving a woman with a gross facial deformity who stalks little kids with a machete. Lovely. picked by gnikgnok 2 years ago

There’s a new breed of woman dominating the headlines. She is feisty, fabulous, and would never be defined by her man. And with fearless campaigner Joanna Lumley leading the charge, there’s no stopping her. We salute you, Warrior Woman! picked by bingo 6 months ago

A Scottish woman has avoided a prison sentence after she admitted putting dog excrement in her husband's curry. Follow up on this story. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

A rescue team navigated flooded farmland in a boat to save a 70-year-old woman and her dog from rising floodwaters and made another critical rescue _ a pot of stew from the woman's stove. picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago

Elaine Fulps was unusually happy for a woman who just got her funeral all lined up. Maybe that's because the 60-year-old Arlington woman who just won the funeral in a promotion at a minor league baseball game won't need to cash in her prize any time soon. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

A Conway woman who had video surveillance of a man having sexual intercourse with one of her horses said she found the suspect behind her barn Monday night and pointed a shotgun at his head until police arrived and arrested him. picked by kakana 4 months ago

A Florida woman has been charged with fraud and theft after she kept her dead mother's body in a bedroom for six years while collecting more than $200,000 in pension benefits. picked by AutumnLotus 7 months ago

A Lee County woman pleaded not guilty to 10 misdemeanor counts of animal cruelty and not caring for her pets, four days after authorities found more than 200 dead animals scattered on her property, stuffed in the refrigerator, strewn across floors and packed into barrels. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

A woman who filmed the moment she was hit by lightning has spoken of her terror as the strike passed through her body. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

A 19-year-old woman was arrested after an officer saw her smacking her live-in boyfriend with her purse during an apparent argument over whether to take a walk on the beach. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Megan Williams thought she was going to a party. That's why she tagged along with a woman she hardly knew, up a remote southern West Virginia hollow to a run-down trailer surrounded by beer cans and broken-down furniture.

Update to previous post. picked by wags273 2 years ago

Police say a 69-year-old woman forced a plane to abort its landing Saturday night when she went onto the runway and fired a gun. picked by kakana 3 months ago

Belfast Zoo has launched a bid to identify a mystery woman who looked after one of its elephants in her backyard to save it from German bombs during the Second World War. picked by AutumnLotus 8 months ago

Police in La Crosse, Wis., apologized to a woman after accidentally naming her as a potential criminal in a Crime Stoppers public service announcement. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago