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Eagle versus octopus - fishermen break up odd couple

News Lens / 9 hrs

A Christmas tree with a twist

Confiscated Christmas tree at Vilnius Airport

News Lens / 12 Dec

70 million old remains of a new dinosaur species

Argentine scientists discover new dinosaur species

News Lens / 12 Dec

Red noses have been added to the reindeer

Red noses painted onto Banksy piece on homelessness

News Lens / 10 Dec

The latest piece from Banksy is found in Birmingham

Banksy piece uses reindeer to highlight homelessness

News Lens / 09 Dec

A replacement banana was taped to the wall about 15 minutes later

Art work proves too appealing as visitor eats it

News Lens / 08 Dec

'The dog has a sense of smell and this sense of smell does not fail'

Rescue crews and dogs prepare for Alps avalanche season

News Lens / 07 Dec

Image: Ange Protheroe

Cliff collapses after heavy rains in New Zealand

News Lens / 07 Dec

Residents love their unique tree

Town repurposes plastic bottles to make Christmas tree

News Lens / 07 Dec

Angela Merkel began the visit by walking through a gate bearing the chilling Nazi message 'Arbeit macht frei'

Merkel becomes third German leader to visit Auschwitz

News Lens / 09 Dec

Police officers investigate the area where all four men accused in the rape and murder were killed

Indian police kill four suspects during re-enactment

Villagers say they are waiting for stronger ice to form so that the bears leave the area

Russian village becomes home to 56 polar bears

News Lens / 06 Dec

Walkabout Wildlife Park said it had shipped out lizards, dingoes, peacocks and marsupials (Pic: Walkabout Wildlife Park Facebook)

Fires force evacuation of wildlife from Sydney park

News Lens / 06 Dec

The World Health Organisation blamed an anti-vaccine messaging campaign, which Sheldon Yett said was carried out largely online by overseas-based activists

UN calls for anti-vax crackdown after Samoan outbreak

News Lens / 05 Dec

The ad features Arthur Jones, whose father runs the store with his grandparents

Welsh hardware store goes viral with £100 Christmas ad

News Lens / 05 Dec

Hundreds of bushfires have burned out of control since September

Bushfires causing unprecedented pollution in Sydney

News Lens / 05 Dec

Air New Zealand has teamed up with a local company called Twiice, which produces the biscotti cups

Taking the biscuit - airline introduces edible cups

News Lens / 05 Dec

32% of respondents said they check their phone within five minutes of waking for purposes other than silencing the alarm

Irish people check their phones 50 times a day

Ireland / 04 Dec

The 12.5kg gold bars were placed in wooden crates and loaded into security trucks (Pic: G4S)

8,000 bars of WWII gold returned to Poland

News Lens / 05 Dec

Kim Jong Un was pictured leading a squad of riders in a white forest near Mount Paektu

Horse ride may indicate North Korean policy change

News Lens / 04 Dec

NASA released a mosaic image of the site IN September, inviting the public to compare it with images of the same area before the crash to find signs of the lander (Pic: NASA/Goddard/Arizona State University)

NASA finds missing Indian moon lander - with some help

News Lens / 03 Dec

The stuffed toys are donated to around 40 charities ahead of the Festive season (Pic: Hershey Bears/Caroline O'Connor)

US hockey team smash record as teddy bears invade rink

News Lens / 03 Dec

There are roughly 18,000 southern white rhinos in the wild

Rare southern white rhino born in Belgian zoo

News Lens / 02 Dec

Flood water in St Mark's Square in Venice last month

Divers help clean Venice following floods

News Lens / 02 Dec

Image: Love Dalén/Centre for Palaeogenetics

Meet Dogor, the 18,000-year-old puppy found in Siberia

News Lens / 29 Nov

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