Alexandra Mahjouri returned home last week to discover anyone’s worst nightmare; thieves had ransacked her home. Burglars had stolen passports, emptied her 4-year-old son’s piggy bank and taken every single Christmas present from under the tree. A devastated Alexandra took to Facebook…
What happens when you take two of the internet’s favorite animals and mash them together? Well, the brains behind pin-up cats, aka Rachel Aslett, has merged sloths and kittens to create… slittens. It starts out okay. In fact, kittens doing the…
We’ve shown you some pretty awesome cakes in the past, from a gory red velvet brain cake to a realistic roast turkey cake. But this might just be the best yet. Introducing the incredible plaid-filled lumberjack cake, complete with edible…
Foxes may be cute, but they can have a devastating effect on local wildlife. Indeed, they nearly wiped out a colony of little penguins from Middle Island, a beautiful, rugged island off the coast of southern Victoria, Australia. The catastrophe was averted when an Australian farmer…
Christoph Niemann, a cartoonist for the New York Times, kept himself entertained on his flight from New York to Berlin by drawing a totally accurate account of everyone’s experience of flying, ever. 6:52pm — take off! It’s all in the detail. Who’s hungry? Why…
Patrick Schmidt was unemployed and living in California when he decided to turn his life into one big road trip with the help of an old school bus (and his dad). Patrick, aka Skoolielove, bought this disused 1990s school bus for…
Over the weekend, Saudi Arabia had a historic moment when it finally allowed women to vote in municipal polls and also stand for election. The last country in the world to open its ballots to women, Saudi Arabia is known…
When a lost and starving pitbull was wandering the woods outside of Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, it seemed unlikely that he’d have a happy ending. Until he was found by “super-vet” Wilson Coutinho Martins. Wilson stumbled upon the heavily bleeding and horrifically…
There’s a whole lot of crazy Photoshopped animals floating around the internet, but these 17 hybrid species are 100% real and 100% awesome. #1. Male lion + female tiger = liger. Ligers are the biggest of the big cats, with…
An elderly passer-by surprised shoppers in Middlesbrough, UK, by stopping in his tracks and performing a jig by the city center Christmas tree. The man danced to a jazzy tune being played by a nearby busker before carrying on his…
Back in 1909, French banker Albert Kahn was fed up with black and white photography. He sent four photographers to take their state of the art Autochrome Lumiere-system cameras around the world and document what they saw. #1. Just some…
Learning to love yourself can be difficult. Why do we say ‘sorry’ instead of ‘thank you’ when we share something difficult with a friend? According to artist Yao Xiao, we should be thankful for the kindness of our friends instead of thinking ourselves a burden. We couldn’t…
Artist Ruth Oosterman and her 3-year-old daughter Eve are quite the creative team. Eve starts the pictures by scribbling on paper and Ruth adds paint to turn the marks into beautiful paintings. Eve uses felt-tip to get the painting started,…
US non-profit organization Lava Mae is transforming old city buses into mobile bathrooms to give showers to around 200 homeless people in San Francisco every week. Lava Mae, which roughly translates as Spanish for “wash me,” has installed ‘hygiene pods’ with showers, toilets,…
Russian miner Ivan Kislov doesn’t spend his breaks in the staff room chomping on a soggy sandwich; he creeps out into the wilderness of Chukotka, Russia, to capture these gorgeous photographs of foxes. Ivan says that photography is his “relaxation from routine”. He enjoys…
22-year-old Abbey Ramirez-Bodly decided to make her own wedding dress after struggling to find an affordable gown. While we’d have ended up with a white sack, she got to wear the dress of her dreams. Abbey, from Arkansas, US, couldn’t find…