To combat the persistent heat wave in Zurich, animals in the zoo are fed a diet of frozen berries, meat and bones to help them stay cool. The "alternative ice cream" offered to animals instead of their usual diet has proved successful with large cats, apes and wolves, reports Reuters news agency.

After making a help plea on the national television in January, then 1,235 pound Manuel Uribe has finally shed 200 pounds. The Mexican aims to lose other 770 pounds. According to the AP, being bed-ridden by his weight for five years, the 41-year-old mechanic in the northern industrial city of Monterrey, made a desperate plea for help on the Televisa television network in January.

According to country's main animal welfare body, Australia is leading in increasing number of obese pets. Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA), says that the people show the love by overfeeding their pets thus posing them to increased risks of death.

A 5-foot-9, 22-year-old man who weighs only 101 pounds eats as much as 6,500 calories a day. "I'm a medical mystery," said Matt Chaffee

Residents in rural Malaysia have found a two-tailed lizard and a toad with a 15 inch tail. Farmer Ahmad Mustafa caught the unusual green lizard with a split tail near his house last month in the northern state of Penang, the New Straits Times said in a report accompanied by a photograph of the strange reptile.