Casper, which is 12 years old, boards the No3 service at 10.55am from outside his home in Plymouth, Devon, and travels the entire 11-mile route before returning home about an hour later. picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago

Horses were first domesticated on the plains of northern Kazakhstan some 5,500 years ago -- 1,000 years earlier than thought -- by people who rode them and drank their milk, researchers said on Thursday. picked by AutumnLotus 9 months ago

A couple have married more than 50 years after getting engaged as childhood sweethearts. picked by AutumnLotus 6 months ago

A man who broke his left leg in a motorbike crash 29 years ago is to undergo an amazing operation to grow back 6cm of dead bone. picked by AutumnLotus 6 months ago

A cat has returned to its Birmingham home – nine years after disappearing. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

A woman who boarded the wrong bus on an attempted shopping trip from Thailand to Malaysia has returned home after 25 years. There were some language barriers and mistaken identity issues but hey... she should have been back home in 12 years tops! picked by BrownTrout 3 years ago

One can spend a long time in jail in the U.S. without ever being charged with a crime.

It happened to H. Beatty Chadwick, a former Philadelphia-area lawyer, who has been behind bars for nearly 14 years without being charged. picked by Bornbad 10 months ago

He went to an asylum for the criminally insane and spent 50 years there. There was just one problem. His father, whom he was thought to have killed, was still alive. picked by Moe 2 years ago

UPDATE/SPOILER ALERT: Here is how long it's been since David Letterman and his then-producer, Robert Morton, decided to cut Bill Hicks' controversial monologue out of a "Late Show" broadcast -- in one of the very first editions of Late Show News that I wrote, 15 years ago. For all practical purposes, what Dave will be showing America on Friday night is something America has never seen: ... read full post picked by Bornbad 10 months ago

A German shepherd named Astro who has been missing from his family for more than 9 years is finally home.

The Geary family was shocked when they recently received a call from an animal control officer who said that Astro had been found. picked by AutumnLotus 9 months ago

Puzzle fan Graham Parker has finally solved his Rubik's Cube - after 26 years' worth of attempts. picked by AutumnLotus 11 months ago

One species of burrowing frogs can survive for years buried in mud without food and water. New research has figured out how the frog and other "super-sleeper" animals do it. picked by AutumnLotus 5 months ago

The party was over more than 4,000 years ago, but the remnants still remain in the gourds and squashes that served as dishware. For the first time, University of Missouri researchers have studied the residues from gourds and squash artifacts that date back to 2200 B.C. and recovered starch grains from manioc, potato, chili pepper, arrowroot and algarrobo. picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago

Hurricane Katrina pulled a pair of best friends apart.

But nearly four years later, fate and a whole lot of persistence have brought a dog and his owner back together. That whole time, Jessie Pullins was desperately searching for his best friend and dog, J.J. picked by AutumnLotus 6 months ago

An Australian woman who spent more than 60 years in an iron lung to treat polio has died at the age of 83. June Middleton entered the Guinness World Book of Records in 2006 as the person who has spent the longest time in an iron lung. An American woman hs also been in an irong lung for 60 years. picked by suebe 3 weeks ago

A collection of photos comparing a place about 100 years ago to the same place today picked by muppet 2 years ago

China houses several early-human (Paleolithic) archaeological sites along the Nihewan Basin near Mongolia, some with artifacts that date back about 1 million years ago. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

How old is a piece of string? In this case, 8,000 years - making it the oldest length of string ever found in Britain. picked by AutumnLotus 12 months ago

A grandmother has been left virtually housebound for two years because she burps uncontrollably.

Jean Driscoll, 72, said she started belching two years ago and despite visits to two doctors and three hospitals, noone has been able to diagnose what it wrong with her. picked by AutumnLotus 9 months ago

Astronomers say they have found the farthest supernova ever detected, a giant star that ripped apart around 11 billion years ago.
A new technique enabled the cosmologists to make the find, which should help advance knowledge into these rare phenomena and their role in generating other stars picked by Bingo 5 months ago