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A Seoul court has ruled a former South Korean soldier who fell ill after eating raw snakes during survival training is entitled to special benefits.

A four-year-old British boy who released a balloon with a message hoping to find a pen pal in a foreign land ended up having a correspondence with the Queen.

An elephant in eastern India has sparked complaints from motorists who accuse it of blocking traffic and refusing to allow vehicles to pass unless drivers give it food.

A British artist ate a corgi dog, famous for being Queen Elizabeth II’s favourite breed, in protest after a group including her husband Prince Philip allegedly killed a fox earlier this year.

An Israeli man wrestled a leopard to the ground after it entered his bedroom in a desert college and tried to make a meal of his pet cat.

Dutch politicians and doctors have condemned a reality television show in which the winner gets a new kidney.

The image of China’s late ruler Mao Zedong is being invoked by a middle-aged woman.

A 71-year-old Japanese mountain climber has become the oldest person to reach the 8,850 metre summit of Mount Everest, the Japan Mountaineering Association announced on Tuesday.

Climbers from Japan and Nepal picked up 500 kilograms of tins, old tents, food and medicines littered on Mount Everest over decades by mountaineers.

A Chinese woman’s 64-year headache has ended after doctors removed a bullet that relatives said lodged in her skull when Japanese soldiers shot her during World War II.