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Australian player scores during a quidditch match between US and Australia, a sport inspired by the "Harry Potter"serie books, during a Quadball World Cup 2025, in Tubize

Belgium conjures up win at quidditch world cup

Tubize, Belgium- With a fair bit of wizardry on the pitch, Belgium…
Mirko Bogicevic, 68, local resident and village's chronicler, passes by graveyards in Kisiljevo on June 23, 2025. Romania is known as the land of Dracula, but it was in Serbia, 300 years ago, that a vampire was allegedly first seen. Today, the small village of Kisiljevo would love to reclaim its title as the cradle of vampires - and the tourists that go with it. To trace Petar Blagojevic, the first of the vampires, you have to enter a small cemetery wedged between three cornfields and a lake, a hundred kilometres east of Belgrade. In the sweltering heat, you walk behind the tombs to discover old headstones under a pile of undergrowth.

Serbian village stakes claim to the first vampire

Kisiljevo, Serbia-Pushing through thick scrub, local historian Nenad Mihajlovic pulls back branches…
Newly weds celebrate during the "Op de Ring festival" (Ring Road Festival) on the A10 highway in Amsterdam on June 21, 2025, ahead of the upcoming 750th anniversary of the city of Amsterdam in October. Twenty couples were chosen from a lottery to win the opportunity to get married on Amsterdam's ring road during this year's festival. The festival takes place on a 15 km car-free stretch of the highway A10.

On this ring I thee wed: tying the knot on Amsterdam motorway

Amsterdam, Netherlands - Like 18 other couples, the two men tied the…
Participants wearing smurf (schtroumpf) costumes take part in an attempt to break the world record for the largest gathering of Smurfs, in Landerneau, western France, on May 17, 2025. Landerneau on May 17 attempts to break the world record for the largest Smurfs gathering, a record held by Lauchringen in Germany, after two failed attempts over five years.

French town breaks smurf number world record

Landerneau, France-Landerneau, population 16,000, on the far western tip of France's Britanny…
Noah Boat stands for the undercard weigh-in during a Sperm Racing competition in Los Angeles, California on April 25, 2025.Tristan Mykel of USC holds a golden sperm trophy after winning the Sperm Racing competition championship in Los Angeles, California on April 25, 2025. At the Los Angeles event on Friday night, a man in a lab coat used pipettes to place samples of semen -- collected from contestants ahead of time -- onto tiny two-millimeter-long "tracks." The race track is magnified 100 times by a microscope, then filmed by a camera that 17-year-old high schooler Eric Zhu says transfers the image to a 3D animation software before the final video is broadcast to the audience. The unusual sport was invented by Zhu, who raised over a million dollars to organize the event to raise awareness of male infertility.

US students 'race' sperm in reproductive health stunt

Los Angeles, United States-A commentator yells excitedly as hundreds of spectators stand…
This photo taken on April 8, 2025 shows gallery director Dan Isomura posing with abstract artwork on display by 21-month-old artist "Thumbelina" at his art gallery in the Shinjuku district, central Tokyo. Gripping paintbrush and crayon, the artist known as Thumbelina splodges and splats with merry abandon, the one-year-old star of a Tokyo exhibition that goes on way past her bedtime. Abstract paintings by the toddler are on sale for 33,000 yen ($230) at her debut show at hip gallery Decameron, tucked above a bar in the Kabukicho red-light district.

Tokyo's newest art star: one-year-old Thumbelina

Tokyo, Japan-Gripping paintbrush and crayon, the artist known as Thumbelina splodges and…
In this photograph taken on February 1, 2025, students compete in an inter-school Scrabble championship organised by the Pakistan Scrabble Association (PSA) at Bai Virbaiji Soparivala (BVS) Parsi school in Karachi. Despite a musty reputation, the word-spelling game has a cult youth following in Pakistan, a legacy of the English language imposed by Britain's empire but which the country has adapted into its own dialect since independence. In the eccentric field of competitive Scrabble, Pakistan's youngsters reign supreme -- the current youth world champions and past victors more than any other nation since the tournament debuted in 2006.

Pakistan's old English manners spell youth Scrabble success

Karachi, Pakistan_"Dram", meaning a measure of whisky. "Turm", describing a cavalry unit.…
Athletes compete in the swimming race in the Seine during the women's individual triathlon at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in central Paris on July 31, 2024

Six of the best offbeat sport stories of 2024

Paris, France -There was a multitude of great sport in 2024 with…
German aerospace engineer Rudiger Koch, 59, talks during an AFP interview inside an underwater room off the coast of Puerto Lindo, Panama, on November 26, 2024. Koch, an admirer of Captain Nemo, has been locked underwater for more than two months at a depth of 11 meters to break a Guinness World Record. Surrounded by fish, he intends to prove that it is possible to live peacefully under the ocean.

Seeking a new way of life under the sea -- and a world record

Portobelo, Panama- There are probably easier ways to set a world record,…
Matthew Chavez, founder of the Subway Therapy project, poses at the 14th St/6th Ave station bypass in New York City on November 8, 2024. A wall on a subway passage plastered with passengers' PostIt notes carrying inspirational comments, poignant thoughts and uplifting ideas is many New Yorkers' answer to the fear and anxiety provoked by the election. "Be more kind", "am I gonna get deported?", "dump Trump" and "having a felon as our new president" read some of the brightly colored sticky notes, many of which addressed President-elect Donald Trump's win on November 5, 2024.

Noted! PostIt therapy transforms NY subway

New York, United States-A wall on a subway passage plastered with passengers'…
Customers eat a meal as portrait paintings of Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni adorn the walls of "Trattoria Meloni" restaurant in Shengjin, some 60kms northwest of Tirana, on September 23, 2024. A stone's throw from an Albanian center housing migrants intercepted in Italian waters, the "Trattoria Meloni" restaurant has opened, where customers enjoy seafood under dozens of portraits of the Italian Prime Minister. Gjergj Luca, a 58-year-old eccentric entrepreneur, son of a Albanian famous actor, and a former actor himself, gave his Shengjin restaurant the name of Meloni, inspired by this politician whom he finds "extraordinary".

Meloni-themed restaurant opens next to Albania migrant camp

Shëngjin, Albania-Close to a new migrant camp in Albania, an unusual theme…

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