Chinese Companies Accused of Selling Potentially Deadly Plastic Rice

A major food safety scandal involving fake rice recently rocked China; News reports suggested that the grain is produced by mixing the po...

The Glowing Firefly Squids of Toyama Bay

Every year, between March and June, the 14-km coast of Japan Toyama Bay is lit up in blue. The electrifying light show is not man-made; It...

The Mexican Town Where Women Engage in Bloody Fist Fights to Call the Rain

Every year, in the month of May, the women from the Nahua village of Guerrero, Mexico, get together to beat the living daylights out of ea...

Kindhearted Woman Saves 100 Dogs From Being Eaten During Controversial Festival

A 65-year-old dog lover from China has gone to great lengths to save as many dogs as he possibly could from being eaten during Yulin Dog M...

Bon Appetite! 40-Year-Old “Zombie Meat” Sold in Restaurants Across China

after rice plastic, concrete-filled walnuts, flavored pork and beef, the latest food scandal in China involves expired meat be at least 30...

World's Biggest Liar

The World's Biggest Liar competition is held every November at the Bridge Inn,  Santon Bridge , in memory of Will Ritson (1808–1890...

Bishop Rock: The Smallest Island in the World

Bishop Rock is a small rocky ledge jutting out of the sea, 4 miles west of the Isles of Scilly in Cornwall. The rock rises from a depth...

French Cafe Charges Rude Customers More Than Double

Here's a cafe that's being proactive about customer behavior towards waitstaff: A Nice-Matinreporter tweeted a photo of the menu a...

An Island within a Lake on an Island within a Lake on an Island

Vulcan Point in the Philippines is the world's largest island within a lake (Main Crater Lake) that is situated on an island (Volca...

Dancing Plague of 1518

The Dancing Plague (or Dance Epidemic) of 1518 was a case of dancing mania that occurred in Strasbourg, Alsace (then part of the Holy Roma...

The Happiest Prisoners

In the shadow of Mount Baldy, where lodgepole pine and trembling aspen compete for space in Alberta’s spectacular Kananaskis Country, a...

U.S. family tries living without China

Lamps, birthday candles, mouse traps and flip-flops. Such is the stuff that binds the modern American family to the global economy, author...

Japanese man learns to scuba dive to search for remains of missing wife

TAKENOURA, Japan – On a chilly morning last weekend, a 57-year-old Japanese man adjusted his diving mask before heading out to sea from t...

Antilla – The $1 Billion SUPER Home In Mumbai, India

Location: Altamount Rd Mumbai, MH, India Square Footage: 400,000 Value: $1,000,000,000 If you haven’t heard of this home already, then yo...

The Evolution of Oktoberfest: A Historical Timeline

When you think of Oktoberfest, it likely brings to mind images of beer kegs, mounds of pretzels, delicious bratwurst, accordion players ...

Flesh-Eating Disease Spreading in Pangasinan

Manila , Philippines - ABS - CBN late night newscast Bandila on Monday, February 24, 2014 aired the story about the mysterious disease in...