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Aberdeen has beaten off stiff competition from the likes of Cumbernauld, East Kilbride and Leven to win the award nobody wants, the Plook-on-the-Plinth trophy for Scotland’s most dismal town handed out as part of the annual Carbuncle Awards.

The owners of a villa that has become an unlikely tourist attraction thanks to its bright lemon paintwork will this week learn if they and their thousands of supporters will have to bid farewell to the bold new look. The striking Georgian villa in Greenock, known simply as the Yellow House, has attr

A workman saved a pal from electrocution by hitting him with a plank of wood. Mark Bradley, 50, was struck by a reported 11,000-volt shock when a metal lamppost he was installing hit overhead power cables, the Mirror has reported.

A sex theme park where tourists can ride astride gigantic stone penises and see erotic sculptures of people and animals in sexual positions is under construction in Taiwan. The park will be called ‘Romantic Boulevard’, and will include an outdoor garden filled with erotic sculptures of mammoth p

A Californian builder has spent the last 20 years turning his home into an adventure playground for his cats. Peter Cohen, of Goleta, who currently has 15 rescue cats, has spent about $40,000 (£26,500) creating the kitty paradise.

Hovering bizarrely over Glasgow’s Whitevale Street high rises, an innovative demolition platform is now in place to begin demolishing Scotland’s tallest residential towers -from the top to the bottom.

A large sinkhole has appeared near a green on the UK mainland's most westerly golf course. The 9ft (3m) deep, 22ft (7m) long hole was caused by heavy rain washing away a drain running under part of Traigh Golf Course, near Mallaig.

Germany's Autobahns have been praised and replicated the world over. They're beautifully flat, and on most stretches there's no enforced speed limit – just an "advised" one of about 80mph. But in Hamburg, residents have become a little sick of their local motorway, and the city government's decide

A couple who secretly turned a pigsty into a four-bedroom home have been ordered to tear it apart and sell it – for just £20,000. From the outside the property still looks like an ordinary farm building, made of unpainted grey concrete blocks with a big sliding door and no windows.

John Caudwell, the man who made billions from Phones 4U (having sold out well before it collapsed), is raising the bar for millionaire property accessories. While others may be satisfied with boring old traditional trappings like an indoor health spa or cinema, Caudwell is thinking outside the box:

The breeding habits of the harbour seal pose the latest threat to the construction timetable and cost of the long-awaited V&A Museum of Design in Dundee.

What happens when you secretly order a truckload of plastic balls and then fill your entire living room with them? The world improves by a small, but measurable margin.

An enormous luxury house that combines modern technology with traditional Iranian design elements has been built in Tehran. The feature which has seen people flocking to see the Shafri-Ha House is that the three main rooms at the front of the house move, rotating round to capture the sunlight while

Architect Fernando Menis has developed a concept for a residential tower complex with rock-like walls, a cavernous swimming pool and plants growing out of every crevice. Proposed for a site in Taipei, Taiwan, Agora Garden was designed by the Tenerife-based architect as a way to bring nature back int