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The Trans Australia Airlines hijacking was Australia's first plane hijacking. It took place on the evening of 19th July 1960. The aircraft, a Lockheed Electra Mk 2 (VH-TLB) was operating Flight 408, the...

When a young child tries to run away from home, the furthest they normally manage to get is to a friend’s house. Not this 11-year-old boy from Manchester, UK. In 2012, little Liam Corcoran ran away from...

A Photograph of Jesús García (Wikipedia) Jesús García is a national hero, although many outside of Mexico will not have heard of him. In 1907 he saved the entire mining town of Nacozari, Sonora when he...

Most of us ignore Facebook friend suggestions. They often appear through some tenuous link via a FB friend that you haven't seen or heard of since school. Or worse still, it's through a connection with an...

Due to a serious car accident when he was 17, Chen Hongzhi only has a 5 minute memory Chen Hongzhi, from Hsinchu county, in north-western Taiwan is the real life version of Guy Peirce's character in...

The average Russian male, does seem to have a lot of testosterone running through his veins. Putin continues to be idolized, despite a failing economy and dubious foreign policy decisions, and one can’t...

It is difficult to comprehend what it must be like to lose a child. This is the sad reality for Guo Gantang, who for the last 18 years has been on the road looking for his missing son. On September 21, 1997...

If you suffer from the odd spell of insomnia, you will empathise with the subject of this following strange story. Never in the history of known medical ailments had anyone literally gone without sleep for...

Sometimes a story comes along that cannot help but tug at the heartstrings. Any example of great achievement in the face of adversity deserves to be recognized – and that is exactly what we have here. Jia...

How’s this for entrepreneurship? In 2007, a father-and-son team from Hunan, China ditched a life-time of farm work to begin creating giant Transformer robot replicas from scrap metal and used car...

This Christmas in Tacoma, Washington, Santa had a little helper of a very different kind. With a pink Santa hat perched on her head, a 6 year old girl named Dryden Shirks pulled a red cart full of toys...

Ross A. McGinnis is a hero of the most extraordinary kind. On December 4, 2006 McGinnis sacrificed himself in an act of supreme bravery. He selflessly threw himself on top of a grenade that had landed in his...

Beneath a large patch of remote farmland in Western Ukraine, lies the Gypsum Giant cave system. Containing over 127,779 meters of explorable passageways, caves and an underground lake this huge subterranean...

Taking strange architecture to another level is Rishi Sowa’s floating island off the coast of Mexico. The British born artist has created his floating retreat, using a base of over 100,000 empty plastic...

22 Year old hero Robert Cooke, and the girl he saved, 21 year old Australian Kimberly Dear In 2006 a 22-year hero named Robert Cook made the ultimate sacrifice for a young girl he had only met that very same...