The child, from Ireland, was cycling with his 16-year-old sister in the Nova Andradina area, southern Brazil, when the tragic accident happened It is believed he was cycling with his sister in the Nova Andradina area (file photo) A six-year-old…
Chinese medical worker Chen Ruixue shared a kiss with her one-year-old son after returning from a gruelling month away helping patients in Xinyang No.4 People’s Hospital in Henan A nurse who had not seen her son for close to a…
It’s International Polar Bear Day! To celebrate the wonders of the largest of the bear species, one that has become an icon of global warming and polar ice melt, here are some stunning photos that reveal just how magnificent these…
The bird’s frozen carcass was discovered by two men hunting for fossil mammoth tusks near the village of Belaya Gora in Siberia. For the last 46,000 years, a small bird that died during the last ice age has sat frozen,…
Spores of the parasite H. salminicola swim under a microscope. Those alien “eyes” are actually stinger cells, one of the few features this organism hasn’t evolved away. When the parasitic blob known as Henneguya salminicola sinks its spores into the…
Female common wall lizard (Podarcis muralis) A newfound species of parasitic worm wiggles its way into the brains of baby lizards long before the reptiles hatch. How do the nematodes break into developing lizard brains? They sneak in through the…
The giant coconut crab (Birgus latro) is the biggest terrestrial crab in the world. Coconut crabs, Earth’s biggest land crabs, are internet famous from images in which they dwarf trash bins and tear birds limb from limb. But when these…
The tourist has been quarantined in hospital as police surround the H10 Costa Adeje Palace in Adeje to make sure no-one enters or leaves and hundreds of staff and guests are forced to undergo health checks A Tenerife hotel with…
When a woman in Pennsylvania needed a life-saving liver transplant, she repeatedly ran up against one vexing problem: She kept testing positive for alcohol — which disqualified her from a transplant — even though she swore she hadn’t been drinking. …
American citizens wave from a bus as they leave the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship at Daikoku Pier to be repatriated to the United States on Feb. 17, 2020 in Yokohama, Japan. Latest coronavirus news ‘Superspreader’ in South Korea infects…