Some poor families in India, unable to send their children to school, have taught them to work as street beggars.

Their parents argue that such an unconventional education makes sense as the children will not get the opportunity to do anything else.

Al Jazeera’s Prerna Suri attended a begging for beginners class in a village in eastern India.

A 6-month-old baby had a miracle escape after his pram rolled onto the tracks and into the path of an oncoming train at a railway station in Melbourne.

Security video footage released on Friday shows the baby’s mother looking away for a moment as the pram suddenly rolls off the edge of a station platform and onto the tracks at Continue Reading

A lizard that looks startlingly like Spider-Man – Mwanza flat-headed rock agama – has become the latest fashionable pet.

The vivid red-and-blue colouring is almost uncannily like that of the Marvel superhero, and comic book fans have been flocking to exotic pet shops to snap them up.

Agamas like the Spider-Lizard, as it has become known make good Continue Reading