London: Making a noble gesture, a British plumber helped a woman to find out her engagement ring slipped down the toilet five days ago.

Sian Robbins, 28, was running a bath when her platinum Tiffany ring - given to her by husband Adam, 34, slipped off her finger and into a flushing loo.

She desperately tried to recover the ring but it proved futile. Having turned , she approached a local plumber Dave Scanes for help.

Scanes visited Robbins' farmhouse five days later. He spent a grueling seven hours manually sifting through waste to find the ring.

Robbins, of Bradford, said...

London: An Italian Court has convicted six scientists and a government official of manslaughter for failing to give adequate warning of a deadly earthquake in 2009, the sources reported on Tuesday.

The city of L'Aquila was decimated by the quake, which measured more than 6.3 on the Richter scale and killed more than 300 people.

Now the group of seven, all members of an official body called...

Kharkhoda: India's Ramjeet Raghav has attained novel feet of becoming world's oldest dad at an age of 96 years. With this achievement, he has improved his own record which he set two years ago of becoming the oldest dad of the world. The newborn has been named as Karamjit.

His wife Shakuntala has given birth to Vikrmjeet at age of 60, her son weighs 4lb 7oz. She gave birth to her eldest son...

London: A study by a dating website has claimed that people today become old just as they turn 28 rather than after reaching the age of 40 as held earlier.

The poll also found that among the 10 most popular changes in behaviour showing that one is no longer young, is the stage of life when our career becomes more important than our sex life, Daily Mail reported.

Almost half of all...

London: Shoes fitted with a miniature GPS system to locate Alzheimer's patients have gone on sale in Britain.

The shoes enable the person with Alzheimer's to be monitored remotely. The 250-pound shoes are fitted with a device - similar to those used in sat-nav systems found in cars.

Family members use an app downloaded to a smart phone or computer to find out the location of the missing...

Washington: A private zoo in the US state of Florida charges visitors $200 to spend a half hour swimming and playing with baby tigers.

Dade City's Wild Things, which is located outside Tampa, Florida, advertises its new money-making attraction as "an amazing encounter" that includes "playing in the grass, bottle time and swim time," according to its website.

The zoo charges an additional...

WASHINGTON: A man in Florida died after eating dozens of cockroaches and worms during a contest to win a pet python. Edward Archbold, 32, was one of several participants in an insect-eating contest on Friday sponsored by the Ben Siegel Reptile Store in Deerfield Beach, Florida, 65 km north of Miami, according to local police.

Archbold began vomiting shortly after his exploits won him the...

Rio de Janeiro: On Saturday, 7 Brazilian fishermen were rescued alive after swimming for almost 3 days in the ocean following their shipwreck on Wednesday night. The ship called Horizonte II went down in the Atlantic at around 10 pm on Wednesday, offshore from the border between the states of Pernambuco and Paraiba.

The fishermen were found on two beaches in the northeastern Brazilian state of...

London: A building made entirely from waste and surplus material from building sites and other industries will soon come up in Britain.

The building, designed by Brighton-based architect Duncan Baker-Brown, will be built on the University of Brighton's campus, the Guardian reported.

The walls will be made of waste timber products. Ply containing waste material will be slotted in between the...

Ohio: Jaime Vendera can break wine glasses with his raw voice, but the US-based vocal coach doesn't consider himself special and gives credit to years of hard work for achieving the unique skill.

"I don't feel special. I have been taught to do this. One of my friends, Jim Gillette of rock band Nitro, used to break wine glasses with the help of the amplifier and he was the one who taught me to...