Swaziland warns witches against flying too high
Witches be warned! Flying your witching broomsticks more than 150 meters above the ground will get you arrested by Swaziland‘s aviation authorities and liable to pay a whopping R500,000 fine. R...
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Floating school built in Makoko slum (photos)
An innovative, first-of-its-kind school will soon be in session in Nigeria, located in Makoko, the poverty-stricken fishing village on Lagos’ teeming waterfront. The new primary school is built...
So cold, boiling water turns to snow shower (video)
How cold is it in Siberia? So cold boiling water turns to snow! A Siberian man filmed himself throwing a pot of boiling water from a balcony and the moment the water hit the -41 degrees Celsius atmos...
Crocodile jumps on tourist in Australia
Huffington Post – A tourist swimming in a river in an Australian national park got a real shock earlier this month when he got a little too close for the comfort of a crocodile sunbathing on a ...
First plane crash site in Nigeria to be made tourist attraction
Ikogosi-Ekiti, (Ekiti) – The location in Ikogosi in Ekiti West Local Government Area of Ekiti where the first plane crash was recorded in 1942, is to be converted to tourist centre. The Special Advis...
Mice, roaches and airline food, what you should know before digging in...
Before you rip open the warm plastic container and tuck into that suspect plate of pasta during your next long flight, consider this: an investigative report by ABC’s “20/20″ has re...
See stunning photos of the 3200 year old “President”
They are said to be some of the World’s largest trees and at 247 feet, the height of a 20-storey-building, that claim sounds about right. National Geographic Magazine photographer, Michael Nich...
Inside Fela’s Kalakuta (photo news)
On October 15, activist and Afrobeat legend, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, was remembered in a unique way when his family launched the Kalakuta Museum. What once was his the Afrobeat king’s fortress was...
Residents shocked as China’s Yangtze river turns bright red
It has residents of Chongqing puzzled and the photographs are rather hard to believe. The Daily Mail reported the Yangtze river, which runs through the city in southwestern China, turned a bright ora...
18 bodies recovered as Cameroon dam floods 250 Nigerian villages
UPI – A massive release of water from a dam in Cameroon submerged 250 villages in neighboring Nigeria and killed an unknown number of people. Eighteen bodies were recovered Monday from the Benu...