Claire Toureille

A gay waiter who shared the comments left on his receipt by a homophobic customer was fired from his job. This prompted great solidarity efforts from friends and strangers alike.

George is 9 and your average kid. He also has autism. His video explaining what his life was like, his communication difficulties and frustrations went viral.

Two studies have looked at repercussions of childhood traumas into adulthood. Aggressive kids or kids who bully other children are more likely to be unemployed.

A 250-metre cave network dating back to the Ice Age has been discovered underneath a residential area of Montreal by two amateur explorers.

WWF has tagged Amazon river dolphins in order to understand how they live, move, and how human-made threats like gold mining affect their health.

A wall dating back to the Middle Ages including 7 well-preserved turrets have been found in a small town in Spain, 50km from Madrid.

People on Twitter are sharing their attempts at reproducing the invisible box challenge, where they have to jump over their own feet. One participant who went viral shares her story.

Dr Christiaan Barnard performed the first ever human-to-human heart transplant on Louis Washkansky on 3 December 1967.

Between 1923 and 1927, paleontologists in China discovered several fossils near Beijing. They named it the Peking Man. But the bones disappeared in 1941 and haven't been found yet.

A man who pretended he was a victim of the Paris attacks will spend 6 months in jail. He tried to get compensation money reserved for victims.

A teacher at Auguste-Renoir high school near Paris has reported 5 of her pupils for sexual assault. They cornered and touched her repeatedly in one of the school's corridor.

20% of office workers would hook up with someone at their office Christmas party. But 1 in 10 admit they caught an STI from a coworker or know someone who has.

On 1 December 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published his first Sherlock Holmes novel, A Study in Scarlet, which lays the grounds for many adventures to come.

Graphic videos have been popping on Youtube, depicting young girls violently punching and kicking each other in organised brawls.

Quincy Jones-produced mega album regarded as one of the most iconic records of all time still beats the competition today with 47.3m certified copies sold.

True Leaf wants to sell marijuana-extract chews and treats as health supplement to beat joint pain, anxiety and inflammation.

12 tonnes of pangolin scales have been seized by Chinese customs. This is a record-breaking amount of scales. Pangolins are the most hunted mammals in the world.

A study shows that men don't know the difference between women's sexual interest and their sexual consent. They also took their former partner's sexual consent for granted.

A hospital in Cambridgeshire has been filming parents 24 hours a day, recording the moment they heard bad news about their children.

Dr Jen Gunter says "orgasm shots" are potentially as dangerous as they are inefficient.

On 28 November 1717, Blackbeard captured a slave vessel from French merchant and made it his flagship, renaming it Queen Anne's Revenge.

His wife was pregnant at the time of their wedding ceremony, she was older, he was a minor: Shakespeare's marriage was scandalous for his era, but would raise few eyebrows today.

Experts advise firm in charge of Fukushima nuclear power plant, damaged by a tsunami in 2011, to release about 1m tonnes of radioactive water into the Pacific.

Alfred Nobel patented dynamite on 25 November 1867. But the inventor of nitroglycerin, dynamite's main component, was far from pleased, and resented Nobel's invention and success.

Taiwanese researchers were initially baffled by the case of a normal 40-year-old man.

I am the Walrus was the third Beatles song to be banned by the BBC, because of direct references sex and underwear.

Construction workers discovered the massive concrete swastika at sports stadium in Hamburg.

The US president's campaign team has rolled out Yule-themed MAGA hats embroidered with lights. Trump announced his tax plan would be his "Christmas gift" to America

A graveyard is going on auction in Wales on 7 December. Plans to turn the abandoned burial site have been protested by locals for the last 20 years.