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Kieran Adams was driving home from a night shift when he spotted a hopping marsupial on a road between Truro and St Austell, Cornwall, which he initially thought was a kangaroo

Sixty years ago this month, on November 22, 1963, US President John F Kennedy and his wife Jackie were riding in an open-top limousine through Dallas, Texas when he was murdered

A podcast has been told there is an exercise which is better than going to the gym - and it helps you live a lot longer. Dan Buettner has written about communities around the world which are unusually long-lived

The Only Fools and Horses star Sir David Jason has agreed to help out two presenters on a special episode, becoming one of the biggest signings in the history of the show

Veryovkina Cave is found in the Gagra mountain range in Abkhazia, descends 7,293ft into the Earth and is so large could eat up the Shard seven times over

Gordon Ramsay is well-known for cooking up a storm in the kitchen, so it’s no surprise the TV chef has shared his recipe for "light, fluffy and absolutely delicious" American-style pancakes

As travel companies compete to win your custom, here's how to win big on Black Friday

In a terrifying incident in Guerrero, Mexico, a wild crocodile pounced, viciously attacking a pair of women, who were enjoying a late-night motorcycle ride around the area

The Black Dolphin is one of the world's most notorious prisons and is home to 700 rapists, murderers and cannibals serving life without parole and they're not even allowed out of their cells

The Cincinnati Zoo employee was bitten by the Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake, however no guests were hurt during the terrifying incident

A dead humpback whale floating off the coast of California in the Pacific Ocean exploded in an astounding moment caught on camera by boaters zooming by the carcass

Michael Rockefeller was a member of the Rockefeller clan - one of America's most powerful and wealthy families - who went missing after being last spotted attempting a three-mile swim to the shores of Papua New Guinea

Kuwait City is heating up faster than the world average with temperatures regularly exceeding 50C in the summer - dwarfing the heatwave felt in parts of Europe last month

The tomb complex of Qin Xi Huang in China, which is most famous for its life-sized terracotta sculptures of the emperor's armed forces, is revered as one of the world's most important archaeological discoveries

Martin Richardson had been enjoying his time in Egypt, swimming in the Red Sea, when he was set up by a mako shark that bit him five times, leaving him thinking he was going to die

A Florida man went diving in Jupiter Inlet and fed between six and 10 bull sharks from his HANDS — and he survived to tell the tale

The pack of hammerheads was seen stalking the shallow waters around Orange Beach, a popular tourist island off the coast of Alabama, with paddlers being forced to scramble to get on board the nearby boats as the creatures drew closer

UK motorists have shared some of their favourite roads around the country to drive - including Snake Pass in the Peak District National Park

The meteorite was picked up on a doorbell camera on the outskirts of Cardiff at around 8pm on January 9 in Taffs Well and shows a white light getting increasingly brighter as is shoots across the night sky