A Great Dane called Zeus has entered the Guinness Book of Records as the tallest dog ever recorded.
In retrospect, storing $15,000 in cash inside his kitchen oven probably wasn't the best of ideas.
The 1,000-year-old discovery of 108 coins is believed to be a stash buried by the Knights Hospitaller.
Special urinals have been installed in several US pubs in an effort to tackle drink driving.
A military chopper accidentally dropped a training missile near the town of Killeen in central Texas.
New archaological digs on Easter Island have revealed tall bodies buried beneath the stone heads.
Clive Bevan has succeeded in growing pumpkins so large that he needs a helicopter to move them.
Space experts have been investigating a strange metallic object that fell from the sky over Siberia.
Fossils have been discovered of an ancient penguin which stood taller than the Emperor penguin.
Scientists believe 600 million years of drought have rendered the Martian surface totally devoid of life.
During a segment about cannons the crew managed to accidentally shoot through a family's house wall.
A video game installed at a London bar has made using the facilities a little more entertaining.
Cheerleader and dancer Bridgette Jordan is the world's smallest woman at just 2ft in height.
A planet formed from a dead star in orbit around a pulsar is believed to have crystallized in to diamond.
Ed Jarrett needed a whopping 1.6 million pounds of sand and 1500 volunteers to make the 37ft castle.
Researchers have devised a way to produce environmentally friendly plastic from chicken feathers.
Digitally remastered footage of the Apollo 11 moon landings has been shown for the first time.
Researchers have found that cartilage in the joints of dinosaurs would have made them a lot taller.
Scientists have warned that domestic household robots of the future could pose a threat to humans.
Avatar director James Cameron has convinced NASA to install a high resolution 3-D camera on its next Mars rover, Curiosity.