A 14-year-old boy has won an annual spelling competition after successfully spelling the word "psammophile".
A man and a youth have been arrested on suspicion of the theft of a baby donkey who was snatched from a farm in Hampshire.
A dog who was missing for eight months has been found in the back of an ambulance - some 50 miles from her home.
A funeral firm is hoping to "break the taboo" of talking about death by offering custom-made coffins, which includes a casket designed like a Greggs sausage roll.
Three teenagers have been arrested after allegedly stealing a prized swan in upstate New York before killing and eating it.
South Korean officials have used artificial intelligence to estimate the weight of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
A man has been arrested over the armed robbery of a convenience store in which police said a Nintendo video game controller was used to threaten a shop worker into handing over $300 (£240).
Thirteen members of the same family in Namibia have died after eating suspected toxic porridge, the country's state broadcaster has said.
A fertility doctor who was accused of using his sperm to impregnate several patients has died, after a plane he was in crashed.
A patch of phosphorescent green liquid that appeared in Venice's Grand Canal was caused by the chemical fluorescein.
A nun whose body has barely decayed since her death has unintentionally attracted hundreds to the site of her burial in a small US town.
A man has managed to prise a crocodile's jaws from around his head when he was attacked near a luxury resort in Queensland, Australia.
An Indian government official has been suspended after ordering a reservoir to be drained so he could find his phone.
The well-known Cadbury Flake is now "too crumbly" to be used in 99 cones, according to ice cream sellers across the country.
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