Zoe is a beautiful 18-month old Dalmatian with a big problem. She is stone deaf. Frustrated about not being able to bond with Zoe, her owner returned her to the animal shelter, not realizing that she had a disability....

The Ceremony of Flyers, is a unique religious ceremony in Mexico, that dates back thousands of years....

Amid high fuel prices, lost luggage and tight security, many people are finding it hard to be enthusiastic about air travel. Unless of course you are one of the lucky ones that get to fly in a retired Airbus A300, parked in a small backyard in New Delhi's Dwarka neighborhood....

It took 10,000 pieces of pasta, countless hours of painstaking gluing and a huge backache - but the end result looked good enough to eat and almost as good as the original Mona Lisa, that hangs in Musee de Louvre in Paris, France....

Hiroshi Nohara has been in Mexico City for three months. But this 40-year old Japanese tourist has yet to experience any of Mexico's splendor. Instead, he has been mesmerized by the airport's Terminal One....

While we have heard of pampered pooches, this definitely has to be a first - A surgeon in England has drawn up plans to build a custom home for her two Great Danes, in an exclusive estate, which houses million dollar homes....

Paleontologists believe they may have finally solved the mystery of how turtles developed their shells, thanks to a discovery of fossils, dating back 220 million years....

Earlier this week, the New York library became the proud owner of what has been dubbed, the world's most expensive and beautiful book. The 62-pound hand-crafted book, which costs $100,000 USD, depicts the life and work of Italian artist, Michelangelo....

While good football players win sports scholarships frequently, it is extremely rare to find one that wins an academic scholarship. But then Florida State Safety, Myron Rolles has always been extraordinary....

On a day when most of his cohorts ended up on the dinner table, Pumpkin a Tom Turkey, pardoned by President Bush in an elaborate ceremony on Wednesday, strutted his feathers as Grand Marshal, in a live televised Thanksgiving Parade at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim....

Humans have always been fascinated with flying, whether it be aboard an airplane, a wingsuit or as in Eric Scott's case, with just a self-propelling device attached to his back....

Earlier this week, some of the world's best freestyle soccer players came together in Sao Paolo, Brazil, to compete in Red Bull's street soccer championships....

While the rest of the nation gets ready to thaw their turkey for the big Thanksgiving feast, folks in Cincinnati are making sure their birds are as frozen as can be - for soft turkeys do not make good bowling balls!...

Andrew O'Doriso pondered in the Redwood High locker room. But unlike the rest of his teammates, this kicker's mind wasn't on booting a ball or on the upcoming playoff game with Heritage High....

As the holiday season starts, a lot of us are getting ready to board airplanes to go visit family and friends across the country. While we take airplanes for granted today, imagine what life would be like if the Wright brothers hadn't dreamed of building the first passenger plane....

Residents of Western Canada were in for a treat yesterday evening, when a beautiful, blindingly bright meteor streaked across the skies at 5.30pm. Though it lasted only a few seconds, lots of people managed to capture the amazing scene on camera....

If you thought the fireworks at the opening of the Summer Olympics in Beijing were spectacular, you will be even more amazed by the ones staged for the party held in Dubai last night, to celebrate the opening of the $1.5 billion Atlantis Resort....

Most Space missions start with spectacular launches and end with successful albeit dangerous spacewalks. While Shuttle Endeavor's mission started off exactly as expected, it has already encountered a couple of unusual twists and the mission is nowhere close to the end....

Max, a Springer Spaniel has led a life most dogs can only dream about. He joined the Avon and Somerset Police Force in England, at the age of one and spent the next seven years as a sniffer for the drug enforcement agency....

On Tuesday November 18, 2008, the eternally youthful-looking Mickey Mouse turned 80! The ever-smiling rodent celebrated his birthday quietly surrounded by his friends, family and of course thousands of fans, both young and old....

The staff at Heythrip Zoological Gardens in Oxfordshire had a slight problem. Chico, their resident pygmy hippo was refusing to eat, and his nicely rounded figure was starting to look - well a little less rounded and that was not good!...

Thursday, November 15th, was Domino Day. Every year on this day, Domino fans across the world build elaborate creations and then try set the record by toppling as many as they can in a smooth chain reaction....

Yesterday 16-year old Michael Perham from Hertfordshire, England, set sail, in an attempt to become the youngest person to sail around the World, solo....

Walking With Dinosaurs - The Live Experience is an amazing 90-minute stage show depicting life-size prehistoric reptiles that roar and move like the real thing. The show, which began in Australia, is now coming to the end of a two-year stint in North America, where it has been playing to packed audiences....