A 17-year-old nicknamed the 'Ginger Swimmer' has swum the English Channel - powered by Jelly Babies. Lowenna North trained for four years clocking up countless miles both in the pool and on the ...

Three in five Americans believe reality TV has gone too far, according to new research. A new survey of 2,000 respondents ...

The squirrel refused to get off the train. Pictures show the cheeky squirrel that caused a train service to be canceled - ...

Based in Wigtown - Scotland's National Book Town - it gives book lovers the chance to ''live their dream'' of having their ...

A luxury balloon capsule that will carry passengers to the edge of space for $125k each has completed a major test flight.

A mysterious tusked animal depicted in South African rock art may have been inspired by a long-extinct creature preserved as fossils in the region. The Horned Serpent panel is a section of rock wall ...

People who are happy with their lives are significantly less likely to suffer a heart attack or stroke, suggests a new study. The analysis of health records of more than 120,000 adults in the UK with ...

Counting on fingers really does help youngsters improve their maths skills, according to a new study. The research is the first to show that children's performance in arithmetic can show a "huge" ...

Researchers have discovered a new species of fish so "perpetually displeased" they have named it the "grumpy dwarfgoby." A team at the University of Washington and King Abdullah University of Science ...