A Peruvian dog trainer and surfer has taught his pet alpaca how to ride the waves. No, we don't know why either. But Pisco now looks (almost) as comfortable on a surfboard as he would munching grass on a South American mountainside. OK, he doesn't look comfortable at all. Domingo Pianezzi has spent 10 years teaching dogs to surf and decided to have a go with his domesticated camelid after ...

When Philip Levine first started losing his hair in his early 20s, he didn't quite know how to deal with the situation. He knew he didn't want to wear a wig, but neither did he want to look like so many other men who simply shave their heads. "I was receding and going bald," Levine said. "I wanted to shave my head but not conform to society's look of typical bald men who all look the same in ...

This man isn't laughing. No sir. Contestants on a French game show tortured each other with electric shocks until one man cried for mercy and apparently dropped dead. However, all was not quite as it seemed. While the participants thought they were starring in the pilot of a reality TV show, it was actually a psychological experiment. The fake show was designed to test whether being on a TV ...

Police have released the 911 call of a heroic 7-year-old boy who phoned emergency services when armed robbers broke into his home. When the raiders entered and threatened his parents with a gun, the lad, identified only as Carlos, grabbed his 6-year-old sister and locked the two of them in the bathroom. From there he called 911 and told the emergency services what was happening. He can be ...

Wrestlers in Florida are taking part in a bizarre contest: they jump into a pool and grapple with an alligator for 10 minutes. The Freestyle Alligator Competition is said to be an attempt to turn the "tribal tradition of alligator wrestling" into an extreme sport. Organizer James Holt, a Native American whose family has wrestled alligators for generations, says it's key for him that the ...

He's only five-years-old, but Giuliano Stroe has already set two world records ... and has a better set of abs than we are ever likely to achieve. Dubbed the world's strongest boy, the muscle-bound lad has been training with his Romanian gymnast father since the age of two and can perform incredible physical stunts. His latest feat saw him set a world record on an Italian TV show by doing ...

An Ohio man has spent more than a month building himself a giant igloo -- complete with four rooms and a flat-screen TV. When it started snowing in Cleveland over the New Year, 25-year-old Jimmy Grey was shoveling the driveway clear for his parents, when he decided to build an igloo. But this wasn't going to be your usual half-hearted attempt at snow construction. Since the unemployed ...

We can't wait for the Winter Olympics. In fact the only thing better is when animals try their hands at the snowy sports. Four-year-old bulldog Tillman is part of a display team of snowboarding dogs which are currently performing in the U.S., ahead of the 2010 Winter Olympics‎ in Vancouver, Canada. The dogs seem to love nothing more than jumping onto the miniature boards and sliding ...

If there's one thing we know about here at Asylum, it's the impending animal apocalypse. Whether it's jellyfish invading boats or camels occupying whole towns, creatures have had enough of human dominance and are revolting ... especially the blobfish. But things are getting worse. It looks like the animals are taking it up a notch -- they're arming themselves. In California, a hunter has ...

A whopping 5,000 would-be tough guys have battled it out on an extreme assault course where they had to crawl under barbed wire, swim through mud and run through fire. No, it's not exactly our idea of a good weekend either, but for the past 20 years people have flocked to the eight-mile-long Staffordshire course on the last Sunday of each January, to take part in the annual Tough Guy contest. ...