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Every high school classroom holds a few slack-jawed students. One British teen, however, unintentionally took the term to a new level. Holly Thompson, 17, of Kingsthorpe, Northampton, was in the middle of a particularly enthralling class on politics when she reacted to the subject matter like...

Smokey the cat, whose purr as loud as a Boeing 747, to make it into the Guinness world records. Smokey's owner Ruth Adams hopes the moggy can be entered into the record books as the loudest purring domestic cat on the planet. The 12-year-old moggy is 16 times louder than the average cat...

Meet Smokey, the cat thought to have the loudest purr in the world – making a racket which feels ten times louder than a regular purr. Her roars of contentment have left her owners reaching for earplugs and unable to watch television or talk on the phone when she is nearby. ‘She has...