WATCH: Thai shopkeeper caught off guard as wild elephant visits store

A 27-year-old male elephant, named Plai Biang Lek, enters a convenience store near the Khao Yai National Park, in Nakhon Ratchasima province, Thailand, on June 2, 2025. — X@PicturesFoIder A wild elephant with a sweet tooth recently made headlines in Thailand after it lumbered into a convenience store to the surprise of onlookers and the owner, to…

Snakes on a plane: Indian smuggler caught with venomous vipers

A spider-tailed horned viper caught by Mumbai Customs police on June 1, 2025.  — X/@mumbaicus3 MUMBAI: A passenger smuggling dozens of venomous vipers was stopped after flying into the financial capital Mumbai from Thailand, Indian customs officials said. The snakes, which included 44 Indonesian pit vipers, were “concealed in checked-in baggage”, Mumbai Customs said in…

Future queen of Belgium caught up in Harvard foreign student ban

Count Felix and Princess Elisabeth of Belgium attend Prince Christian’s 18th birthday celebration at Christiansborg Castle in Copenhagen, Denmark October 15, 2023 — Reuters BRUSSELS: Princess Elisabeth, the 23-year-old future queen of Belgium, has just completed her first year at Harvard University but the ban imposed by the US President Donald Trump’s administration on foreign…