Archive for January 2024

A chilling video showing the apparent conviction of two 16-year-old North Korean boys to 12 years of hard labor for watching South Korean soap operas recently went viral online. In a video obtained by the BBC, two young boys in grey uniforms can be seen on a stage surrounded by hundreds of people as they…

Researchers doing a survey of seabirds in South Australia came across an unusual discovery — a king penguin hundreds of miles from home.

A Pizza Hut eatery in Ontario gained infamy online due to an unfortunate typo in a posted sign lamenting “unforeseen circumcisions.”

An Oklahoma police officer was called to a home in Moore to eject an unwanted trespasser: an opossum.

An 88-year-old gamer from China earned a Guinness World Record as the oldest video game content creator on video platform Bilibili.

A Washington woman bought four identical tickets for the same lottery drawing and ended up winning five top prizes — a total $50,000.

A New Jersey animal shelter’s Valentine’s Day-themed fundraiser is drawing a lot of attention thanks to the facility’s promise to “neuter your ex.”

Police in Alabama said a kangaroo seen hopping loose through a town was safely captured and returned to its owner.

Researchers in Canada are hoping to identify a shipwreck that washed up in southwestern Newfoundland and appears to be from the 1800s.

The South Carolina Education Lottery said there were a record 3,351 top prize winning tickets when a Pick 4 drawing resulted in the numbers 4-4-4-4.