At 113, Indian pensioner Zeenat Bi has made the claim that she is the oldest dwarf in the world.
The Guatamalan government has been accused of perpetuating the doomsday myth for financial gain.
Ramajit Raghav has fathered his second child in two years despite being in his late nineties.
Poland are to pass a resolution acknowledging three Poles as the first to break the Engima code.
Andrew Basiago is attempting to expose a government coverup involving time travel experiments.
The tiny French village of Bugarach is considered to be a safe haven for those fleeing the apocalypse.
A dossier containing secret Nazi plans for an invasion of Ireland is to go under the hammer today.
The hunt for a long lost Da Vinci masterpiece beneath a fresco in Florence has been called off.
A 98-year-old scrap of paper was discovered in a bottle caught in the nets of a Shetland Isles skipper.
The earliest ever known color film footage has been rediscovered after more than 100 years.
Doomsday theories continue to thrive as the end of the Mayan calendar is now less than 100 days away.
22-year-old Ning Xuefa maintains that he has lived his whole life without eating a single scrap of food.
If Luo Meizhen's claim is accurate then she would be the oldest human being to have ever lived.
There has been a new twist in the mystery over what happened to the head of notorious outlaw Ned Kelly.
A plane wreck has been discovered where analysts believe the famed aviator went down in 1937.
The ship used by Captain Robert Scott on his doomed trip to Antarctica has been located off Greenland.
In 1944 Emmimarie Jones believed that she had conceived a child without the involvement of a man.
Shaun Whitehead and his team hope to uncover the resting place of the long lost 'Treasure of Lima'.
A series of mysterious crop circles have turned up in a wheat field near to the Grand Coulee dam.
Some scientists believe the anomaly could be a WWII weapon designed to thwart enemy submarines.