Medics were called when the woman mysteriously caught fire without any apparent cause or explanation.
A man in Detroit managed to set a gas station on fire while trying to use his lighter to kill a spider.
Dashcam footage has revealed the moment a fireball lit up the sky over Thailand on Monday morning.
The Rosetta spacecraft has captured the moment a dramatic jet of dust and gas erupted from comet 67P.
Scientists at Osaka University in Japan have managed to fire a two-petawatt laser for one picosecond.
Explorer George Kourounis has become the first person to descend in to Turkmenistan's infamous fire pit.
Geologists have been investigating a glowing orange hole that opened up on a Chinese mountain.
A five-year-old from Ohio has vivid recollections of being killed in a fire as a 30-year-old woman.
The strange burning object was sighted by multiple witnesses across two countries earlier this month.
Scientists believe that a long winter, not an inferno, was most likely to blame for their extinction.
Ken Roberts had been driving home when he witnessed something unusual shooting across the sky.
Firefighters were called in to rescue two people after their home was invaded by giant hornets.
A bright object can be seen shooting across the sky during a news item about a fire in West Kelowna.
Police officers are investigating an alleged case of spontaneous human combustion in Edmonton.
The creative arachnophobe managed to burn his house down while trying to kill a spider with fire.
A pack of wolves at a zoo in Winnipeg managed to dig a tunnel straight in to the polar bear enclosure.
An unconventional problem solving exercise went awry when several of the children ended up terrified.
More than 190 neuroscience researchers have condemned the project as a waste of money.
11-year-old Katie Real and her sister Macie spotted something unusual from their upstairs window.
A day out at the safari park for Helen Clements and her family turned in to something of a nightmare.