Over 150 people showed up for the annual World Bog Snorkeling Championship in Wales for a chance to race in a pair of 60-year trenches.

Organizer Gordon Green, 74, took part for the first time since he inaugurated the event more than 20 years ago in an attempt to put his town on the tourist map, England's Times reported.

A British man is facing murder charges for stabbing his partner to death after he learned she changed her Facebook relationship status from "married" to "single."

The accused, Brian Lewis, 31, denied murdering Hayley Jones, 26, on March 12 during a jury trial at the Cardiff Crown Court.

Meryl Streep wanted to marry Britain's Prince Charles. The "Mamma Mia" star spent her childhood wishing the Prince of Wales would whisk her away to live happily ever after, but is glad her dreams didn't come true.

The 60-year-old actress revealed: "When I was a kid I wanted to be a princess and marry Prince Charles."

A 19-year-old British backpacker was found alive Wednesday by two hikers after being lost for 12 days in Australia's Blue Mountains.

Jamie Neale was given up for dead by rescuers and his father when the hikers reported finding him at 11:30 a.m. in a gully about six miles from Ruined Castle, where he was last seen. Police rescue officers of New South Wales immediately fetch him and took him to the nearest hospital in Katoomba town.

The small town of Bundanoon in New South Wales, Australia has become the world's first community to ban bottled water to protect the environment.

Residents voted 350-1 in favor of the ban during a public meeting at the town hall on Wednesday night. They said "huge amounts of resources are used to extract, package and transport bottled water" and "discarded plastic bottles then end up as litter or go into landfill sites," according to BBC.