What would you do if you come across dust? Majority of the people would go for vacuuming & that’s it. But here we have a few artists who have created beautiful works of art using dust.Dust Houses: When Maria Adelaida Lopez moved to Philadelphia to do a Master’s degree in art school, she cleaned houses [...]

The job was advertised in local newspapers and job centres…

Auditions for the role were held in front of a panel of judges….

Auditions were held for a witch to fill a vacancy at Wookey Hole Caves, near Wells, in Somerset

The tourist attraction was looking for a new witch to teach visitors about [...]

They say it is unlucky to walk under them and so it proved for this hapless swan who bumped into a ladder with her neck stuck out.
The bird, nicknamed Lofty by rescuers, managed to bump into the ladder after wandering into a back garden, and brought it crashing to the ground.
The aluminium frame, weighing a [...]

Mary King’s Close, Edinburgh, Scotland
For years the hidden underground closes of Mary King’s Close, in the Old Town area of Edinburgh, Scotland, have been shrouded in myths and mysteries. Tales of ghosts and murders, and myths of plague victims being walled up and left to die abounded.

The Real Mary King’s Close consists of a number [...]

10. The Rat:
A cheap and effective way to torture someone was with the use of rats. There were many variants, but the most common was to force a rat through a victim’s body (usually the intestines) as a way to escape.
This was done as follows:
The victim was completely restrained and tied to the ground or [...]

My Chopsticks Bra was unveiled a few days ago by lingerie maker Triumph International Japan as a bid to promote the use of reusable chopsticks instead of the disposable ones. It is still a concept idea where the bra comes with a pair of chopsticks and creatively uses two bulging bowls of rice and miso [...]

I am pleased to inform you that the Magic Tree House room is complete.
We want to say a special thank you to our client Deborah who had a big part in the overall direction of the project (it helps to have a client with a great eye for design, color, and space). We hope to [...]

The world’s only pink Bottlenose dolphin which was discovered in an inland lake in Louisiana, USA, has become such an attraction that conservationists have warned tourists to leave it alone.
Charter boat captain Erik Rue, 42, photographed the animal, which is actually an albino, when he began studying it after the mammal first surfaced in Lake [...]

If the people of Congo save the mountain gorilla, might the gorilla return the favour?
That is the hope of environmental activists, who realise that wildlife conservation and tourism could be the key to survival for people as well as animals in a part of Africa where conflict has been the norm.
Mountain gorillas are gentle giants [...]

By Gabriela Baczynska
WARSAW (Reuters) - Polish prosecutors are investigating whether a controversial exhibition displaying human cadavers amounts to desecration of the human body, a spokesman said Friday.
“Bodies… the exhibition,” which has toured a number of countries, consists of 13 corpses and around 250 body parts which have undergone a process known as “plastination” which preserves [...]