Searching for sunken treasure sounds exciting, but the Swedish government has said a hard no to any would-be pirates keen on getting their hooks onto 100 bottles of Champagne recently discovered on a 19th century shipwreck. We don’t know why they’re being so strict, they just arrrr…

A giant tortoise named Stitch was taken home much faster than he escaped from his ostrich farm home in Arizona, after a driver called the police when he saw the creature dodging traffic. He must have been shell-shocked…

Forget the Olympics, because even if you have no sporting ability you can still be a champion with the help of Victorian couple John and Helen Taylor who’re helping everyday Aussies break world records. And they’ve been just as successful as our athletes, smashing 88 records so far. Who needs Paris…