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The trainee volunteer fire brigade in the village is comprised of only girls, with the youngest firefighter, Maja Golasz aged just two and a half.

A village in Spain where two-thirds of its residents are aged over 65 has had a makeover to make it more elderly-friendly.

The sculpture is made from 200 tonnes of steel and was set in 2,800 tonnes of concrete.

Daela, an African elephant and Dunja, an Asian are both former circus performers.

UK contestant Gary Hunt took the world title for the fourth year in a row, winning the $7,000 (€6,200) prize.

Poland's ruling PiS (Law and Justice) party have been using LGBT issues as leverage ahead of the upcoming general election in October.

The pilgrimage is one of the five pillars of Islam and all able-bodied Muslims are required to make the journey at least once in their life.

The school is publicly funded and was created with the help of designer Margit Sjöroos.

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Before his death in 1924, Kafka left all of his work to his friend and editor Max Brod, instructing him to burn every manuscript without reading it.

Iain Macmillian, the photographer who captured the images in north London in 1969 is said to have completed the entire shoot in just ten minutes.

Wildcats are on the verge of extinction in Scotland, but the births of two separate litters recently have given hope to conservationists trying secure their future.

The gadget-filled Aston Martin DB5 driven by James Bond in the film "Goldfinger" has been sold in California for 5.77m euros

The count, which reached 456, tied with the previous record set by the festival.

The contest started in Vienna in 1991 and now plays out annually in more than 100 locations

The female thumb war champion spot was claimed by Janet Coleman, better known as 'Nanny Thumb'.

Slacklining is a sport which involves walking across a suspended rope that is anchored between two points.

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Meet the latest addition to the elephant family at Vienna's Schönbrunn Zoo.

Archaeologists have estimated that the city was probably built in the late Byzantine period, 600-800 years ago.

Lizzie Daly and Dan Abbott, who discovered the specimen, estimated it to be around 1.5-metres-long — as large as the divers themselves.

In a final that left fans on the edge of their seats, England drew with New Zealand but secured their victory by virtue of scoring more boundaries.

The spectacle emerged from an ironic demand by locals for a port in the Vallecas neighbourhood, which lies some 350 km from the sea.

A successful breeding scheme in southern Russia has seen the beaver population rise to more than 700,000 from near-extinction less than a century ago.

"What we've been seeing is the evolution of culture, that it's all starting to evolve and intertwine together. We see fashion. We see art. We see luxury all playing in the same field."

Over the 47 days of the season, the Dubrovnik will stage over 80 performances across thirty locations in the city.