May 17
An elderly man in China was left with just bruising after he was run over by a lorry and dragged under the vehicle for 20 metres along the road.


May 17
An elderly man in China was left with just bruising after he was run over by a lorry and dragged under the vehicle for 20 metres along the road.


May 17
CCTV footage of the moment Akbar Ali fought off a knife wielding robber in his corner shop.


May 17

Pictures of the day: 17 May 2012

An escaped lemur, a smiling tapir, and the man who ate his own brain.


May 17
Two speed flyers, a sport that combines paragliding and skiing, become the first people to successfully descend Europe's biggest and most active volcano, Sicily's Mount Etna.


May 17

Giant fish caught in Chinese river

A sturgeon weighing more than half a ton is caught by startled fishermen in northeast China.


May 17
Two dejected armed cops stare blankly into space after smashing their £30,000 patrol car into a set of infamous rise-and-fall traffic bollards.


May 17
A wealthy businesswoman who developed 'an irrational fear' of going broke built a DIY fraud kit on her PC to mastermind a bogus receipts scam at Marks and Spencers.


May 17
An 83-year-old man has become the oldest living kidney donor in British medical history after giving his 'perfect' spare organ to a stranger.


May 17
A mayor staged a three-hour sit-in protest in NatWest after 'ludicrous' bank staff refused to return his credit card when it was eaten by an ATM.