We have heard of pumpkins being used to make pies, Jack-O-Lanterns and even a temporary coach to transport Cinderella to the ball, but a canoe? - That is definitely a first....

Yat-chan and Fuku-chan are the perfect waiters. They are polite, rarely mess up an order, and patiently listen to the incessant chatter of their patrons....

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Agency (NASA) released some amazing photos of Mercury, the smallest planet in our Solar System, now that Pluto has been demoted to dwarf planet. The pictures were taken by NASA's Messenger probe, whose mission is to become the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury....

Building Castells or human towers is an age-old tradition in Spain. Believed to have been started by dancers in the 18th century, it is now a part of the Spanish culture, especially for the residents of the region of Catalonia in North East Spain....

Earlier this week, three skydivers made history by jumping over Mt. Everest. The daredevils from Britain, New Zealand and Canada, who started their freefall 465 ft. above the highest peak in Nepal, said the view from the top was spectacular!...

The Nyaru Mentang Center, located on the Indonesian side of Borneo, is home to more than 600 orphaned Orangutans. Here these infants, all victims of deforestation and illegal poaching, are taught to fend for themselves in the wild, a process that takes about eight years....

New research conducted by scientists has revealed that pre-historic cave paintings may not be the work of one generation, but the combined efforts of many, with each one adding to and enhancing the paintings, in some cases for as long as 20,000 years....

Anastasia Fullerton and her cousin Madeline Petrow were only twelve years old when they read Jennings Michael Burch's autobiography 'They Cage the Animals at Night', a stirring tale about his childhood as an orphan....

After winning every game of chess in the last four months against his counterparts on Earth, NASA Astronaut Gregg Chamitoff has set his sights on the rest of us earthlings....

In his 30-year career, spanning 60 countries, American photo-journalist Jeffrey R. Werner has covered some incredible stunts for both, television and film. He now brings them all together in a book entitled "Incredible Stunts: The Chaos, Crashes, and Courage of the World's Wildest Stuntmen and Daredevils with a Special Tribute to Evel Knievel."...

They say an elephant never forgets - The owners and guests of a luxury lodge at a National park in Zambia can certainly testify to that. Every November for about six weeks, the lodge is visited by a herd of elephants that zip right past the reception and head straight to the mango groves....

Though this turtle looks like it's ready to go partyyyyyyy, the green stuff growing out of its head is not dyed hair, but green algae. If that sounds unusual, its because you are looking at a Mary River Turtle, one of the most unique reptiles on Earth....

Your eyes are not deceiving you - This house constructed on the northern German Island of Usedom has been built entirely upside down, with the roof on the bottom and the foundation at the top. The icing on the cake? - Even the fittings and furniture inside the house have been tacked upside down!...

Most of us believe that pigeons are a bit of nuisance. They poop on every clean surface they find, are always trying to get a scrap from our meals and to top it all - are not very exotic looking. However, after watching the Video of The Week, we believe you will view this rather unassuming bird, with a new sense of respect....

Last weekend, thousands of Bay Area residents waited patiently in lines, for as long as five hours, to be among the first to catch a glimpse of the newly renovated California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park....

For the past few months, residents of the town of Stourbridge, West Midlands in the United Kingdom, have been waking up to a pleasant surprise. Empty milk bottles with beautiful farm animals etched into the glass. However, just like Santa, nobody had seen or knew who this kind samaritan and amazing artist was......until now....

Hundreds of runners, all donned in gorilla suits took to the streets of London this weekend, to participate in the sixth annual, 7km Great Gorilla Run, a charity event to help endangered mountain gorillas. This year's record turnout of 735 people, one for every mountain gorilla alive, aimed to raise $400,000 USD to help preserve the dwindling population of this majestic animal....

Two geologists believe they have discovered what could be the world's oldest rocks near the Eastern shores of Hudson Bay in North Quebec. Jonathan O'Neil from McGill University and Richard Carlson from Carnegie Institution of Washington say that tests conducted on the rocks from this region, indicate that they could be as old as 4.28 billion years old, only 300,000 years younger than the Earth....

If British inventor Mijevic Miroslav has his way, a bike ride will no longer evoke memories of grinding up steep hills. Instead it will be as easy as pushing the gas pedal in a car, except for the fact that the Cycle Sol is solar powered....

Swiss Adventurer Yves Rossy, also known as Jetman or Fusionman, made history this morning by flying across the English Channel with just a jet-propelled wing on his back. Yves, who had to postpone the flight twice this week due to bad weather, soared across the skies at about a 100 mph on a beautiful fall afternoon, completing the 22-mile journey in just 13 minutes....

If the Spaceward Foundation is successful, Space Shuttles may become a thing of the past - Instead Astronauts and the rest of us will simply take an elevator to Space. Though initially the elevator will transport only cargo, the ultimate goal is for Space to become a tourist destination....

Since 1994, Bill Dan has been wowing the residents of San Francisco, California and the neighboring city of Sausalito with his amazing rock 'art' - if that's what one could call balancing different sizes of rocks on top of each other....

When we think of lobsters, we always imagine them to be red. However, did you know that lobsters could be blue, yellow or even white? Admittedly they are rare though - Blue lobsters are one in two million, yellow - one in thirty million and white, even rarer - one in one hundred million....

When the Bristol Zoo in the United Kingdom, decided to adopt Kera to join their Western Lowland gorilla family, they were a little concerned about how she would adjust....