Quoted: Maybe the dress wasn't the right size, or perhaps it was the grey and gloomy weather - but these two monkeys don't seem over-the-moon after being married in China. The downcast-looking pair tied the knot in a special wedding ceremony at their zoo. The monkeys - who live in Wenling, Zhejiang province - are seven-year-old male monkey  Wukong and a six-year-old

Quoted: With its sharp angles and its glass walls shimmering in the sunlight  it looks like a piece of modern art. But this innovative design is actually a blueprint for the city of the future - a giant glass pyramid that could house up to one million people. The development, named the 'Ziggurat', will be self sufficient and carbon neutral with power being

Quoted: The statistics are almost as spectacular as the view. This is Burj Dubai and, once again, the editors of the Guinness Book Of Records have got to rewrite the chapter on buildings. This is not simply the tallest structure in the world; it smashed the tallest-building record a year ago and, this April, it overtook the world's tallest antenna. Now it

Quoted: Rescue workers looking for survivors in the rubble in China's southwest region have found the heartbreaking bodies of a woman protecting her child in a collapsed house in Lixi. The death toll from the earthquake in the Sichuan province has hit 38, two days after the most recent in a series of tremors. An appeal for temporary housing and tents has been

Quoted: Two foetuses found buried with Tutankhamun may have been his twin daughters, an expert has claimed. Professor Robert Connolly, an anatomist who is working with Egyptian authorities to analyse the tomb of the Egyptian Pharaoh, says that preliminary tests on the mummified remains of the two still-born babies indicate that Tutankhamun may have fathered

Quoted: A 30-foot-tall (9-meter-tall) cigarette butt sits in the middle of Trafalgar Square on Tuesday. The Keep Britain Tidy campaign, run by the charity ENCAMS, installed the structure to remind citizens that cigarette litter dirties 78 percent of streets in the United Kingdom. The problem has skyrocketed since July 2007, when Britain's ban on smoking in

Quoted: Doctors in Colombia are trying to determine how an 11-month-old baby is already the weight of an average eight-year-old. The child's mother, Milena Orosco de Agudelo, said her son's unusual growth spurt began when he was just two months old. He has had several medical examinations carried out which suggest he may have a problem with his endocrine

Quoted: There will be no need for a slow-motion replay to confirm this record-breaking feat. Schoolgirl Tiana Walton has slithered into the record books - for having the most snails on her face at once. Nine-year-old Tiana, who loves animals, bravely allowed 25 of the slimy creatures to cover her eyes, nose and mouth. She smashed the previous record of 15,

Quoted: This sensational footage shows a giant panda giving birth to her cub at a Japanese zoo - making a normally traumatic process look easy. Twelve-year-old Tan Tan delivered the 25cm-long cub with apparent ease, popping her young out in one go. Following the birth, which happened at 3.46pm on Tuesday at Kobe Municipal Oji Zoo in Nada-Ku, the mother set