“It’s not every day someone decides to take a helicopter ride up a 13,123ft mountain in the Andes and drive a motorcycle off the top of it, but daredevil Julio Munoz doesn’t appear to be an everyday kind of guy. The world-famous Chilean base-jumper is clearly crazy – but he also makes jaw-dropping videos of his feats. His latest – a daredevil stunt among the most amazing we’ve ever seen – saw Munoz take a chopper up into the Andes mountain range, ride his bike off a specially-constructed jump, and only open his parachute 200ft from the ground.” w/ photos + video

“A group of New York chefs have given new meaning to an underground dining experience – by serving up a six-course meal on the L Train to Brooklyn. Fifty diners paid $100 each to sit next to fellow passengers and be served caviar, filet mignon and foie gras off tables fixed to the ceiling with pieces of twine. Every five stops the waiters would exit and a new group would get on board carrying the next delicacy, prepared by an unseen team of ‘punk’ chefs in kitchens near the station. By the end of the trip, which lasted around half an hour, diners had enjoyed six courses brought to them as effortlessly as if they were in a real restaurant. The Sunday lunch, which was served up on May 1, was not pre-booked or arranged with the Metropolitan Transit Authority. The eccentric meal was dreamt up by Michael Cirino, Daniel Castano and Johnny Cigar, served up on the L Train as it made its way East from Manhattan into Brooklyn. In a video of the event, filmed for posterity and posted on YouTube, Mr Cirino says: ‘So far all of the food has showed up and nobody’s been arrested, so I think they’re doing excellently.” w/ photos

“This pint-sized pony is hoofing his way to soccer stardom. Stallion Jeffrey has amazed staff at the Bleakholt Animal Sanctuary who are hoping he’ll share his silky skills with their other residents. Staff at the Ramsbottom charity became aware of the two-year-old’s amazing soccer talents a few weeks ago. After giving him a ball to play with Jeffrey was soon showing off his control skills and even started using a field shelter for a goal. Manager Neil Martin said: ‘He was looking a bit bored so we put a football in with him to see if he would like to play with it. ‘He really took to it and now he has his own ball that he likes to dribble all over the field – and he even uses the field shelter as his goal.’ Jeffrey is one of three miniature ponies at the sanctuary and staff are hoping that at least one of the others will also take up the game – to give the star some competition.” w/ photos

“A Mexican restaurant in Los Angeles has been boycotted by scores of furious diners after spraying a donkey pink and chaining it to the entrance in a bizarre promotional stunt. Pink Taco decided to mark the Cinco de Mayo Mexican national holiday by painting the animal and daubing the restaurant’s name on both its sides yesterday. But after chaining the animal to its entrance in searing 80F heat, the restaurant’s stunt backfired after it was boycotted by disgusted diners and animal rights campaigners. Pink Taco used the donkey as a promotion on Cinco de Mayo, a holiday held in the U.S. to celebrate the culture and heritage of Mexico. The donkey was spotted by a passer-by, who took to Twitter to express their disgust at the donkey’s ill-treatment. Soon after, animal rights campaigners joined in venting their anger at the promotion, while dozens more joined in and even created a Facebook group boycotting the restaurant.” w/ photos

“After hours waiting beside an African river, Arnaud Germain thought he finally had the perfect shot of his favorite bird. But as the wildlife photographer trained his lens on the colorful kingfisher, he got a rather different snap than he was expecting. All of a sudden, a crocodile and a hippo burst from the tranquil waters straight in front of him, locking jaws in ferocious battle. Arnaud desperately tried to refocus his camera on the river monsters as they fought on the banks of the Shire River, in the Liwonde National Park, Malawi. As these incredible images show he captures the moment the crocodile and hippo clashed in a bloody tooth-on-tooth tussle.” w/ photos

“Like any other baby, Stanley sleeps in a crib, wears diapers, and loves nothing better than being comforted by his mother as she bottle feeds him. Except Stanley Thornton is 30-years-old – and his ‘mother’ is really his room-mate. Mr Thornton seeks comfort in being treated like a baby, a condition known as paraphilic infantilism. The ‘adult baby’ lives out his fantasies at his California apartment, where he has built himself a giant crib, play pen and even a man-sized high chair. He spends his days playing with Lego as he sucks on his pacifier, and being spoon or bottle-fed by his room-mate Sandra Diaz, who willingly acts as his mother. Tonight viewers will see inside his bizarre alternate world as he features in a National Geographic programme, ‘Taboo: Fantasy Lives’. He said: ‘For some people being an adult baby is a sexual fetish for them, but for most of us it’s just, you know, you’re doing it to relax, you come home from work, you change into baby mode, you put away your adult stuff and everything goes on hold.’ He first began his return to childhood when he was 14, as a way of coping when he started wetting the bed after being abused as a boy.” w/ photos

“The morning coffee is a ritual beloved by hundreds of millions of people around the world. Now a team of inventors has promised to improve this daily pleasure with metal beans that can keep your drink warm for up to five hours. The beans, called Coffee Joulies, cool down your beverage to a drinkable temperature three times faster than normal, and then maintain that temperature. They work by absorbing extra thermal energy in the drink when it’s too hot, and then releasing that stored energy back into the drink to keep it at an optimum temperature as it begins to cool down. While this might seem to go against the laws of thermodynamics, Coffee Joulies contain a ‘special non-toxic material’ sealed within the beans’ stainless steel shells. A spokesman said: ‘This material is designed to melt at 140 degrees Fahrenheit, and absorbs a lot of energy as it melts. This is how Joulies cool your coffee down three times faster than normal.” w/ photos

“There is something green and alien looking, growing in South America. On first inspection you might think that it is some extraterrestrial species, using the remote grasslands of the continent to establish a foothold on planet Earth. Yet however alien this looks, this green mass of cells has its origins very much on this world. This is Yareta… Yet why does it look so alien, like a green fungus flowing over the ground? It is because of the environment in which it grows. It is extremely compact so that it will lose as little heat as possible in the extremely cold evenings at this altitude.  Additionally it grows as close to the ground as possible as there the temperature is a good two degrees higher than the mean air temperature of its natural ecosystem.” w/ photos

“The hairy-nosed wombat is one of the saddest looking creatures in the world. It’s a marsupial, and one of its unique features is a backwards facing pouch that allows it to dig without getting dirt in its pouch. The hairy-nosed wombat looks like a sad, slow creature but is intensely determined in the defense of itself and its burrow. This wombat is about a meter long and has a tough hide; it has an armor plated backside, even though you can’t see it easily. It also has an incredibly slow metabolism which means it can go long periods without water; its digestion takes 8 days to process a single drop of water.” w/ photos

“A farmer was left stunned when her flock of 37 white sheep gave birth to 60 lambs – that are all BLACK. Sally Du Toit, 39, and husband Jacob, 29, helped deliver the first black lamb on April 2 this year at their smallholding near Royston, Herts. Since then their flock of 37 white ewes has given birth to a total of 60 black lambs, all sired by a one-year-old ram called Rowley. Incredibly, the South African Dorper ram also has a white fleece, leaving mother-of-one Mrs Du Toit baffled by the freak births. In sheep, a white fleece is the result of a dominant gene that actively switches colour production off – that is why most sheep are white. This means a black fleece in most sheep is recessive, so if a white ram and a white ewe are each heterozygous (have the black and white forms of the gene for fleece colour), in about 25 per cent of cases they will produce a black lamb.” w/ photos