Quirky World ... Now that’s grand... crystal piano off the scale
The custom-made piano features half a million Swarovski crystals and was created following a request from an unnamed buyer described as an âinfluential sheikhâ in Doha, Qatar.
Goldfinch, a Cambridge-based piano maker, took six months to build it, with every crystal applied by hand.
 Firefighters had to be called to help a 5-year-old Pennsylvania boy out of a tree after he climbed up 10m to see inside a squirrel nest.
Mercedes Jones said her son, Landon, climbed the pine tree in Orchard Park in State College and then got a little nervous about climbing back down.
Alpha Fire Chief Jeff Martin climbed up to keep the boy calm and told him, âI used to climb trees a lot when I was a kid.â
As they waited for a ladder, Martin realised the boy just needed some encouragement to climb back down without one.
His mother says, âHeâs going to have a good time telling his dad this story tonight.â
 A gorilla which became a viral video sensation when footage emerged of him walking like a human has celebrated his 25th birthday.
Online video of western lowland gorilla Ambam aping humans with his unusual habit of walking upright has been viewed nearly 6m times since 2011.
Normally gorillas get around on all fours, but Ambam has perfected balancing on his two hind legs at Port Lympne wild animal park near Hythe, Kent. Standing up has given Ambam a number of advantages including enabling him to look over obstacles and carry objects in his two free hands.
A mountain lion has taken up residence underneath a suburban Los Angeles home and is refusing to budge, despite the efforts of wildlife workers using a prod and firing tennis balls and bean bags at it.
Jason Archinaco, the homeowner in the hilly Los Feliz neighbourhood, said workers installing a home security system encountered the cougar in a crawlspace. âI donât think heâs going to come out,â Mr Archinaco said. âHeâs probably been living here for a while. He thinks this is his den.â
The lion, which has a red ear tag, is known as P-22 and normally lives in Griffith Park Zoo. P-22 arrived in the area several years ago from the Santa Monica Mountains and crossed two motorways to get there. He was famously photographed in 2013 by National Geographic with the Hollywood sign in the background.
 A Rhode Island engineering technology and manufacturing company has set out to build the worldâs largest surfboard.
WPRO-AM reports Bristol-based MouldCAM is building the board for the Visit Huntington Beach campaign in California, which hopes to break the world record for the most people to catch a wave on a surfboard.
MouldCAM says the board will be 12.8m long by 3.35m wide and will hold 62 people. The board will be sent to California to be painted and finished before heading to Huntington Beach.
Project manager Bob Steel says an aerospace engineer is working with the project to make sure the weight distribution is correct on the day of the ride in mid-June. To break the record, 62 people must stand on the board for 10 seconds.
 A man has been accused of stealing a friendâs car to avoid missing a court hearing on drug charges.
Jorge Ramirez-Sierra, 21, of Riverdale New Jersey, has been charged with unlawful taking of a means of conveyance and driving while suspended, among other counts.
Police said a man told officers Ramirez-Sierra had said the night before that he didnât know how he would get to Paterson for the court hearing. While officers were talking with the owner, Ramirez-Sierra called to say he was returning with the vehicle. He was taken into custody after arriving.
NorthJersey.com reports that Ramirez-Sierra had been arrested on drug charges in March.
