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Animal control officers in California, USA, recently got a call from a homeowner to remove a deadly rattlesnake from their backyard.

The Trump administration's first state visit wasn't without its fair share of painfully awkward moments. We rounded all of them up for you.

On a bridge overnight in northern Detroit, police said a man looked down at the midnight traffic on Interstate 696 and considered the fall. It looked like more than a 20-foot drop from the photos. While police continued to talk the man on the bridge, a trailer crept past the barricade on the highway and pulled to a stop directly beneath him. A second one joined it. Then another, and another.

It seems right out of a particularly mean-spirited Groucho Marx routine: A little boy sped through some plastic curtains, knocking them into the face of a pregnant woman eating near the door.

A US court has ruled that a monkey who snapped a selfie on a wildlife photographer's camera does not own the copyright to the image, which became an internet sensation.

Shocking CCTV footage captures the moment a heavily pregnant woman deliberately tripped a four-year-old boy. The woman reportedly did it because she was "annoyed" and wanted to teach the child "a lesson." The surveillance footage went viral on Chinese social networking sites, where many condemned the woman's "shameful" behaviour.

It's official. Indian tennis' golden girl Sania Mirza and her cricketer husband Shoaib Malik are soon going to be proud parents to "Baby Mirza-Malik". Ever since the news broke, people and fans have been posting congratulatory messages for the couple. However, a comment from Farah Khan takes the cake.

Some of Bollywood's biggest names participated in a charity football match. And while the game itself got a lot of attention from Twitter, it's this adorable little jig actors Abhishek Bachchan and Ranbir Kapoor did on the field that's winning some love.

Mumbai Police's social media team is at it again. Today, on Sachin Tendulkar's 45th birthday, Mumbai Police tweeted greetings to the man known as the God of Cricket. They also included a brilliant message on road safety - one that borrows from a cause that the Master Blaster himself has spoken about on several occasions.

As enthusiastic royal baby-watchers and media waited outside the Lindo Wing of St Mary's Hospital in London where Kate Middleton had just given birth to her third child, a surprise appearance by "The Queen" briefly stole the show.

Chinese entomologists have found a giant mosquito with a wing span of 11.15 cm in Sichuan province. The mosquito, which belongs to the world's largest mosquito species Holorusia mikado, was found in August last year during a field trip to Mount Qingcheng in Chengdu, reports Xinhua news agency.

Australian police were Tuesday investigating how a 12-year-old boy managed to fly alone to the Indonesian island of Bali and spend four days at a resort using his parents' credit card.

Almost everyone's favourite track from the film Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety, Bom Diggy Diggy got the cutest treatment from this little girl and her dance teacher. The video shows the two doing the most incredible routine to the song and are winning major Instagram-love.

Deaf since childhood, Razali Bin Mohamad Habidin has developed a closer bond with the creatures under his care than any other keeper at Singapore's Jurong Bird Park, where other staff refer to him simply as the "bird whisperer".

Three bear cubs have been rescued in Bulgaria after villagers found them roaming alone on a road in the country's southern Rhodope mountains, the Four Paws animal charity said Monday.