Weird / Interesting
15 May 2010 [11:37]
Government-run Jobcentres are offering unemployed women jobs on X-rated websites.
14 May 2010 [18:07]
14 May 2010 [16:50]
14 May 2010 [15:28]
A young woman who impaled her breast on a door handle had to be cut free by firefighters.
14 May 2010 [14:17]
14 May 2010 [14:03]
"Marks & Spencer" has apologised for labelling underwear aimed at six-year-old girls as a "bra top".
14 May 2010 [13:43]
14 May 2010 [11:43]
A woman has died after being kicked by a giraffe while walking her dogs in a South African game reserve.
14 May 2010 [10:56]
Chemical extracts from cigarette butts - which are so toxic they can kill fish - can be used to protect steel pipes from rusting, a study in China has found.
13 May 2010 [19:05]
A bereaved fiancé who was about to throw himself off a bridge in Russia has found love again – with a woman who was set to leap from the same spot.
13 May 2010 [18:18]
13 May 2010 [17:07]
A Japanese lingerie company has developed a concept bra that doubles as a rice paddy.
13 May 2010 [16:24]
A millionaire who posted an advert looking for the perfect son-in-law has found the ideal man after sifting through 400 responses.
13 May 2010 [14:35]
A man has been arrested in China for allegedly posing as a woman in order to marry men for their money. 18-year-old Wang Mou had reportedly married three men already this year.
13 May 2010 [14:25]
A couple in eastern China may have set a new Guinness world record after they got divorced three times in the space of a week.
13 May 2010 [09:53]
A terminally ill man who had previously won thousands of pounds betting he would stay alive has died just weeks before he was due to collect another £10,000 in winnings.
12 May 2010 [20:50]
12 May 2010 [17:07]
A man has found his long-lost father after successfully searching for him on Facebook.
12 May 2010 [16:13]
12 May 2010 [15:20]
12 May 2010 [14:23]
An Australian physics lecturer has spotted a 99-year-old mistake in the definition of the word "siphon" in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED).
12 May 2010 [13:28]
When your name is just plain Richard Smith, it must be very tempting to change it to something with a bit more... ooomph. And that's what one Richard Smith has just done, in spectacular style.
12 May 2010 [12:31]
For the 860 dairy cows that live on a farm in a village in central China's Henan Province, music makes their day and helps them to produce more milk!
11 May 2010 [20:18]
A man who got stuck in river mud was so embarrassed that he didn't call for help for four hours - even though he had a mobile phone.
11 May 2010 [20:06]
11 May 2010 [19:40]
11 May 2010 [17:36]
A woman has spoken of her shock after opening a tin of pears only to find that one slice looked like a demonic face.
11 May 2010 [16:24]
11 May 2010 [15:27]
A man who tried to break into prison to free an inmate while dressed as the cartoon character Snoopy is being held under the Mental Health Act.
11 May 2010 [13:44]
A string of nurseries have banned children from having sweets or cake to celebrate birthdays under a new healthy eating initiative.
11 May 2010 [13:17]
A stuntman known only as ‘Szenty’ made his way down a set of escalators in Budapest in his own style – on skis.
11 May 2010 [12:42]
Sports promoters in a Peruvian city are honoring its mothers by inviting them to slip on gloves and head protectors and try to punch each others' lights out.
11 May 2010 [10:48]
11 May 2010 [10:15]
11 May 2010 [08:17]
Hundreds of thousands of embarrassed Britons are suffering in silence every year after injuring themselves during sex.
10 May 2010 [14:35]
10 May 2010 [11:55]
10 May 2010 [10:53]
Why can’t men learn to belly dance? They have bellies, don’t they?
08 May 2010 [13:32]
08 May 2010 [13:10]
An ecologist claims he spotted the super-size rodent den whilst using satellite technology throught the internet site google earth.
08 May 2010 [12:36]
Britain's rarest flower is to be protected by extra police patrols and thousands of pounds worth of CCTV cameras to prevent it from being stolen when it flowers this month.
08 May 2010 [12:18]
A South Korean woman who took 960 attempts to earn her driver's license is now planning to buy a car and get behind the wheel.
07 May 2010 [13:33]
07 May 2010 [12:29]
The grave of a car fanatic has been turned into a tomb in the shape of a BMW – complete with personalised registration number.
07 May 2010 [11:30]
A senior Russian politician claims to have met aliens on the balcony of his Moscow apartment, prompting critics to question his suitability to head up the World Chess Federation and run an internal Russian republic.
07 May 2010 [10:35]
Iggy Pop, the punk rock star, is the celebrity with the 'worst face', according to a poll.
06 May 2010 [12:31]
06 May 2010 [11:31]
This is the horrifying moment a six-year-old boy was left dangling millimeters from death outside a high rise apartment block - saved only by his ears.
05 May 2010 [16:26]
Star Wars fans on Tuesday said “may the fourth be with you” in tribute to the Hollywood films, on the unofficial day honouring the cult movies.
05 May 2010 [13:28]
More than 1,700 people in fancy dress have set a new world record for the largest ever gathering of pirates.
05 May 2010 [12:52]
Can whales paint pictures? Think before you respond, as at the Qingdao Polar Ocean World oceanarium in China the answer might surprise you.
05 May 2010 [12:06]
05 May 2010 [11:49]
The BlackBerry was first predicted more than a century ago, by Nikola Tesla, the electrical engineer, it has been claimed.
05 May 2010 [11:40]
Meeting beautiful women can be bad for your health and increase levels of the body's stress hormone cortisol, according to a survey by the University of Valencia.
05 May 2010 [10:30]
The Australian prime minister has been following porn sites online - all because of an inadvertent setting on his Twitter account.
04 May 2010 [17:30]
04 May 2010 [16:17]
04 May 2010 [14:42]
Comic book shoppers in Australia could only marvel as Spider-Man swooped to prevent an in-store robbery.
03 May 2010 [16:13]
03 May 2010 [13:23]
A Chinese man has eaten more than 1,500 light bulbs since he was aged 12.
03 May 2010 [11:35]
03 May 2010 [11:09]
Hundreds of people shed their clothes and their inhibitions, baring all in the name of art.
01 May 2010 [12:42]
A blind boy has learnt how to "see" again after being taught a technique used by dolphins to detect where objects are.
01 May 2010 [10:17]
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez has asked Cuba's Fidel Castro and Bolivian leader Evo Morales to join him in using the social networking site Twitter.
30 April 2010 [17:16]
He's officially the Guinness World Record holder for world's tallest living horse - but his owner says that Big Jake is really just a gentle giant.
30 April 2010 [16:44]
30 April 2010 [15:04]
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger would love to run for president — if he could.
30 April 2010 [11:34]
30 April 2010 [11:16]
A 10-year-old girl stung by the world's most venomous creature - the deadly box jellyfish - may have rewritten medical history, an expert has said.
29 April 2010 [21:00]
Hunter Afanasiy Kiskorov from the Senzansky Kichi village (South of Kemerov district, Russia) claims to have not only seen a living sasquach (aka big foot), but also saved him from death.
29 April 2010 [13:15]
Indian military scientists are studying an 82-year-old who claims he has not had any food or drink for 70 years.
29 April 2010 [12:57]
29 April 2010 [11:55]
29 April 2010 [11:33]
An unexploded Second World War bomb has been discovered outside George Clooney's Lake Como villa.
29 April 2010 [10:30]
Not content with merely appearing on dogs, in frying pans and a Marmite lid, Jesus has moved into the 21st century and found himself a spot on Google Maps.
Human rights in Armenian and the PACE farce
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Israeli Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef calls on unemployed Israelis not to join army
Outgoing Biden administration attempts to burn bridges between Baku-Washington
Secretary of Holy See expresses satisfaction with tolerance in Azerbaijan towards religions