By Joseph Golder This is the adorable moment an exhausted sea lion invites itself aboard a boat and falls fast asleep using a diver’s hand for a pillow. The video shows the sea lion resting its head in the diver’s hand before the images show the moment it jumped on board the boat, where Alexander
By Simona Kitanovska A skilled craftsman is wowing customers by carving intricate items and works of art out of lumps of wood despite being blind – using his senses of touch and smell. Chris Fisher, 52, is the United Kingdom’s only completely blind professional woodturner after taking up the hobby when he lost his sight
By Simona Kitanovska Better treatments for an eye condition that can cause blindness are a major step closer after scientists discovered genetic clues that show who has it. Researchers in Australia have unearthed genetic markers of age-related macular degeneration. They hope their discovery will soon mean doctors can give patients the best drug for them
By Simona Kitanovska Angry locals say Japanese knotweed has taken over a park and is creeping toward their homes like scenes from the horror movie “The Day of the Triffids”. Residents fear the fast-growing plant will knock thousands of dollars of the value of their properties unless the problem is tackled. They have blasted council
By Simona Kitanovska A survey of 2,000 people found that three in four Americans won’t judge you for licking your fingers after eating chicken wings – because they’ll do the same (73 percent), according to new research. The study found that chicken wings are considered an ol’ reliable classic food (63 percent), and are the
By Simona Kitanovska A scaffolder had his Tesco Clubcard permanently tattooed onto his arm – because he kept forgetting to take it with him when he visited the supermarket. Dad-of-seven Dean Mayhew, 30, said he thought about the tattoo for several months before deciding to go under the needle. He said despite shopping in Tesco
By Simona Kitanovska Fascinating footage shows a huge tunneling machine called Dorothy digging underneath ancient woodland as the United Kingdom’s HS2 high-speed rail project goes full-steam ahead. Dorothy, the 410-foot-long boring machine weighing 2,000 tons, is drilling under the countryside in Europe’s biggest ever infrastructure project. Ten borers – named after Britain’s most celebrated scientists
By Simona Kitanovska Nearly six in 10 parents have revealed they’ll often text their kids to come down for dinner instead of calling for them. A survey of 2,000 parents of school-age children found the average kid will receive their first smartphone at 10 years old. While technology continues to evolve, some things stay the
By Arian Movileanu A mom pranked her own eight-year-old daughter in a TikTok video by telling her she has to fight another girl to defend her family. Candace Prairie, 31, who is from the city of Kokomo, in the Midwestern U.S. state of Indiana, told her eight-year-old daughter Gabriella that she had to “take care
By Simona Kitanovska Meet the die-hard Tom Jones fan who stole the show when she saw the Welsh crooner perform for the seventh time – at the age of 89. Sheila Sugden, who sleeps with a cut-out of the ‘Delilah’ singer in her bedroom, was left stunned after her granddaughter, Lori Walker, got her the
