A father was caught on camera getting blasted in the face by an exploding watermelon as he attempted to tie elastic bands around it. The footage was recorded at the family's home in Fukuoka in Kyushu, ...

Watermelons have been bursting by the score in eastern China after farmers gave them overdoses of growth chemicals during wet weather, creating what state media called fields of ‘land mines’. About 20 ...

A watermelon and several hundred rubber bands just helped prove why Facebook is betting so heavily on live video. More than 800,00 people tuned in to a Facebook Live Friday to watch as two BuzzFeed ...

On Friday afternoon, hundreds of thousands of people tuned in to a live Facebook broadcast of BuzzFeed staffers painstakingly putting rubber bands around a watermelon until it finally exploded. That's ...

More than 800,000 viewers tuned into Facebook to watch a live stream of Buzzfeed staffers placing rubber bands around a watermelon until it exploded Screenshot/ BuzzFeed How many rubber bands does it ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

In an online world where viral trends can shift in an instant, the "exploding watermelon" video may have set a high-water mark. Accused of murdering his girlfriend, Oscar Pistorius will learn his fate ...