A festival on a sandbar brought 90 minutes of merriment to hundreds of people in the Isles of Scilly. The Low Tide Event took ...

THE shortest scheduled passenger flight in the world takes place between two Scottish islands. From take off to landing, the ...

Dogs Reggie and Pearl went on a "pawfect" date earlier this month (April) when the two canines - the world's tallest and shortest - met. Great Dane Reginald, or Reggie, from Idaho and Chihuahua Pearl ...

The Vatican, headquarters of the Catholic Church, is the smallest state in the world, with its own newspaper, national anthem ...

Having a long runway at the airport is generally a good thing, but steep cliffs, mountains, and nearby oceans mean these ...

It took five hours of queuing at a community kitchen in Gaza's Nuseirat district for displaced grandmother Um Mohammad ...

Nineteen-year-old University of California student Asher Proeger lost the final race and was sprayed with a substance ...

A century ago, in his classic book Public Opinion, the journalist Walter Lippmann laid out a bleak argument: One of the ...

Graham Sturge, and nine others, from Bromham, near Bedford, set a Guinness World Record for the fastest marathon in a ...

In travel news this week: the world’s smallest park, Spain’s greatest ... pair becoming an international social media hit. Some people are turning their homes into their fortunes by swapping ...