One of the biggest health trends of the moment is consuming as much protein as possible - protein powders, shakes and muesli bars are everywhere. But a new study by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, which analyzed three hundred studies, suggests that eating less protein may actually be the key to...
A wallaby that escaped from a zoo in Brabant six months ago is still on the loose - and it keeps evading capture. Around twenty attempts have been made so far. "The kangaroo is fast and keeps outsmarting us," a Zoo Veldhoven employee told local broadcaster Omroep Brabant.
Wallabies are quick, shy a...
An illegal mortuary has been discovered inside an apartment complex in Zaventem, Belgium. One of the residents saw someone carrying bodies across the terrace and alerted a local councillor. The mortuary has since been closed down and the bodies removed.
"Apparently you could hear the fridges runnin...
A new power cable between Ireland's County Wexford and Freshwater West beach in Wales threatened to run straight through the memorial site of Harry Potter's beloved house-elf Dobby. Fans flooded the electricity company with calls to stop the plans - and it worked. The developer has now adjusted the ...
Police in Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands, have admitted to serious failures after refusing to help a minor who reported being assaulted.
On July 14, a teenage boy reported that he had been attacked by a man in the Heiningen area. Due to a shortage of available units, officers did not respond to the sc...
Firefighters in Kampen, Netherlands, were called to a dramatic rescue Monday morning after a cat named Oscar got stuck high on the facade of a building.
When crews arrived with a ladder truck to save him, Oscar had other plans. Just as the firefighter's basket reached him, he decided against climbi...
Firefighters in Ypenburg, Netherlands, pulled out all the stops Tuesday evening to rescue a costly set of dentures from an underground waste container.
The owner accidentally threw the dentures away after a meal, wrapped in a newspaper. Realizing what had happened, they called the fire brigade for ...
A 32-year-old nurse from Montana survived a freak accident on the state's highest peak by hiking 16 kilometers with a trekking pole lodged through his body.
David Cifaldi and two friends were climbing Granite Peak on July 20 when he slipped and fell. His trekking pole had disappeared -- because it ...
Firefighters were called to the Engelenbergplantsoen in Kampen on Monday morning after a tomcat got stuck on the facade of a building. Oscar, as the cat is called, appeared unable to get down on his own.
But just as the firefighters began positioning an aerial ladder platform to rescue him, Oscar c...
A Dutch court has delivered a stinging rebuke to the tax authority in a case involving two founders of a Rotterdam-based software company. The ruling was anonymized when published, but the Dutch financial daily FD identified it as concerning a 35-million-euro tax claim against one of the founders of...