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Roberto Manderioli/Getty Images/iStockphoto A Chinese airline passenger tried to sneak his pet turtle onboard a flight to Beijing, but airport security stopped him. The animal was given to a friend to be cared for while its owner is away. A Chinese man who couldn’t bear to be away from his pet turtle tried smuggling it on board a plane by ...

ynetnews.com Ultra-Orthodox men attacked a bus in Beit Shemesh, Israel after an Orthodox couple asked a woman to sit in the back. A female passenger was told to move to the back of a crowded bus by an ultra-Orthodox couple—sparking a riot and confusion about who should be held responsible. The couple asked the woman to move to preserve strict ...

DailyNews178 via YouTube Australian Feliks Zemdegs solved a Rubik Cube in just 7.36 seconds. during the World Rubik’s Cube Championship in Las Vegas. This fleet-fingered teen can solve a Rubik’s Cube puzzle faster than you can make a first impression. Staggering footage shows Feliks Zemdegs, 17, completing the notoriously complex challenge in an incredible 7.36 seconds. The Herculean effort came ...

courtesy of Pius Kugbere Remet Fuji frames a photo of a traffic light in Lagos, Nigeria. The 3-year-old photographer has exhibited his work at the Terra Kulture gallery in Lagos. Four days after his very first public photography exhibition, Onafujiri “Fuji” Remet hit another milestone. He turned 3 years old. Fuji Remet This is the world through Fuji’s eyes. RELATED: ...

Laurent Aigon via Sudouest French father Laurent Aigon built his son a Boeing 737 flight simulator in his bedroom. A young French boy is counting planes to get to sleep after his dad built a giant Boeing 737 flight simulator in his bedroom. Waiter Laurent Aigon, 40, spent five years — and thousands of dollars — re-creating a realistic replica ...

HANDOUT/REUTERS The skeleton of Richard III is seen in a trench at the Grey Friars excavation site in Leicester, central England LONDON — A team of archaeologists said Monday it has unearthed another interesting coffin in the central England parking lot where it found the skeleton of King Richard III. University of Leicester scientists have been digging at the Grey ...

Hanns Kammerstaetter/AP A bell with Adolf Hitler’s name on it in the castle of Wolfpassing, Austria. The Austrian government is scrambling to explain how it failed to notice a castle it recently sold holds a bell honoring Adolf Hitler. The swastika-embossed bell, which tolls every hour in rural Wolfpassing village, dates to 1939 and was mounted by Nazis who supported ...

SCHONBRUNN ZOO The coati’s long claws are usually used for climbing trees or fighting predators. Here, a coati chills out with a fruit ice pop at the Schönbrunn Zoo in Vienna, Austria. These zoo critters are playing it cool. Animals at Vienna’s Schönbrunn Zoo are beating the 86 degree weather by nibbling on specially crafted ice pops. PHOTOS: ANIMALS CAUGHT ...

Hassan Ammar/AP As charges of murder and conspiracy were brought against President Mohammed Morsi Friday, tensions bubbled over into violent clashes between supports of Morsi and the opposition. CAIRO — Overnight clashes between security forces and supporters of ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi in east Cairo left at least 38 protesters dead on Saturday, a doctor at the demonstrators’ field ...

PYONGYANG, North Korea — Two decorated U.S. war veterans who survived one of the worst battles of the Korean War found themselves among former foes at a memorial ceremony as North Korean leader Kim Jong Un launched the country’s commemoration of the war’s end 60 years ago. It’s unusual for American veterans to attend official events surrounding the July 27 war anniversary ...