Jan Silva is 5-year-old and he is a young tennis prodigy whose biggest problem at the moment seems to be finding the competition to play against.
Jan Silva has been playing since he was barely a year old, and has been based at a junior tennis academy in Paris since last year when his parents made the move, for the sake of his tennis, from the US to France.
An ancient sea scorpion - bigger than a human
Scientists have found the fossilised claw of a 2.5 metre long sea scorpion, a nighmarish creature living before the age of dinosaurs.
German scientist Markus Poschmann, who found the claw in a quarry around 15 years ago, says scientists didn't previously know that these prehistoric animals were so big.
The world's tallest man meets up with his exact opposite number - a man aiming to enter the record books as the world's smallest.
The record breaking height of Bao Xishun at 2.36 metres (7 feet 9 inches) has been thrown into stark relief alongside the 73 centimetre stature of He Pingping who is challenging the world record of World's Smallest Man.
This animal with distinctive markings is a zorse - the off-spring of a female zebra and a male horse.
Little Eclyse is the latest addition to a German safari park. Eclyse is also special as zorses, or zebroids as they are also known, are usually born when a horse mare breeds with a zebra stallion.
The heavens delivered an odd, smelly present to Peru this weekend: a 32-foot crater.
A meteorite hits a rural Peruvian town near the Bolivian border leaving a smelly crater.
The World Beard & Moustache Championships get off to a hair raising start.
The winning team of the World Beard and Moustache Championships scooped 9 categories in the seaside town of Brighton, in southern England.
It's the first time the event has been held in Britain.
The world's biggest hot air balloon joins fellow floaters from around the U.S. at the annual Wellesville Balloon Rally.
The event in upstate New York, now in its 32nd year, draws hundreds to watch the action as hot air fliers put their craft through their paces.
A police dashboard camera caught a World War 2 plane making an emergency landing on a Wisconsin highway.
According to the Wisconsin state patrol the pilot was flying from Illinois to an aviation show when the plane developed engine problems.
Fisherman discovered a 150-kilogram white sturgeon in a US lake, although sturgeons have never been found there before.
Sturgeon are commonly found in deep pockets of major rivers that lead into the ocean, not in warm water lakes like Black Lake in Washington state where it was found.
Copa America Brasil vs Argentina 3-0.
Brazil struck the first blow, however, after only three minutes of play, as Julio Baptista scored a spectacular long-range goal from nearly 30 meters.
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