Weird / Interesting
09 April 2010 [11:52]
08 April 2010 [16:41]
The Supreme Court of Philippines issued a decree permitting the Party of Gays to participate in the parliamentary elections.
08 April 2010 [12:48]
The US army are reportedly using music by Metallica and Thin Lizzy to fight the Taliban in Afghanistan.
08 April 2010 [11:15]
A 102-year-old woman has reportedly become the world's oldest first-year pupil when she started at a primary school in China.
07 April 2010 [18:48]
07 April 2010 [18:09]
A German man apparently angry over high petrol prices staged an unusual protest - by buying his petrol completely naked (except for a pair of shoes).
07 April 2010 [17:19]
This amazing rainbow eucalyptus was painted by nature. it’s not painted by human, this amazing rainbow eucalyptus can be found in New Guinea, New Britain and the Philippines.
07 April 2010 [14:24]
A new giant species of monitor lizard has been discovered in the forests of the Northern Philippines.
07 April 2010 [13:39]
Police have arrested two women at an British airport after they reportedly tried to smuggle a corpse onto a flight.
07 April 2010 [12:37]
07 April 2010 [11:36]
06 April 2010 [18:27]
A family has claimed to have seen the image of Jesus in a discarded piece of chewing gum.
06 April 2010 [17:55]
Even the most mundane things in life sometimes happen with a twist. Consider the case of a soft-shelled egg laid by a hen in China in the shape of a figure eight.
06 April 2010 [17:36]
06 April 2010 [16:54]
Doing aerobic exercise during pregnancy can reduce the chances of giving birth to an oversized obesity-prone baby, a study has shown.
06 April 2010 [16:14]
05 April 2010 [18:14]
The prudish reputation of Victorian women has been challenged by a long-forgotten sex survey, which reveals intimate details of the bedroom habits of 19th Century wives.
05 April 2010 [17:47]
Feathers have been flying around the world as thousands of people took part in mass pillow fights.
05 April 2010 [16:23]
05 April 2010 [15:35]
About two dozen women drew a crowd of onlookers when they shed their shirts and marched downtown in Maine's largest city to promote what they call equal-opportunity public toplessness.
05 April 2010 [14:58]
Turkish pop-singer Metin Senturk became the world's fastest unaccompanied blind driver on Friday and said he felt he had danced with death.
05 April 2010 [13:33]
A Thai police force has begun taking a monkey dressed in officer's uniform on patrol each day to help improve relations with Muslim separatists.
05 April 2010 [12:14]
A man with only half a body has become the subject of a new documentary.
05 April 2010 [10:34]
A road sign warning of prostitutes is confusing motorists in an Italian town.
02 April 2010 [16:20]
02 April 2010 [13:21]
Air hostesses employed by Spanish firm Air Comet have stripped naked for a calendar to protest against unpaid wages.
02 April 2010 [11:52]
Low-slung trousers give their wearers a bad image, according to a US state senator who is behind an advertising campaign telling people to "raise your pants".
02 April 2010 [11:06]
A tech-savvy sheriff's deputy in Florida used an unexpected tool to track down a suspect alleged to have illegally dumped a boat - he found him on Google Earth.
01 April 2010 [15:44]
Robots might not yet be at the stage where they can replace humans in every meaningful task - but in Egypt and several other Arab countries, they are replacing human jockeys after being taught how to ride camels.
01 April 2010 [14:53]
Three baby squirrels who were left homeless after the tree they lived in was chainsawed have found a foster mother in the shape of a poodle called Pixie.
01 April 2010 [13:33]
01 April 2010 [12:20]
Saddam Hussein made his palaces a desert paradise, but now his hometown is seeking foreign investors to turn the late dictator's playground into a tourist mecca.
01 April 2010 [11:39]
France has begun another attempt to prevent the invasion of English words in its language by creating new words to replace common Anglicisms.
31 March 2010 [18:17]
Elephants have a 'four-leg-drive' system of walking that work much like the wheels of a Land Rover, scientists have found.
31 March 2010 [17:55]
31 March 2010 [16:57]
31 March 2010 [16:40]
These birds of a feather always flock together - in sickness and in health.
31 March 2010 [16:12]
Saturn moon Mimas looks just like the computer character Pac-Man in a thermal photo taken by a Nasa spacecraft.
31 March 2010 [16:00]
What looks like a strawberry, but is white and tastes like a pineapple? A pineberry, of course.
30 March 2010 [17:51]
30 March 2010 [16:28]
A South African woman was so moved by the plight of the local white lion population that she has decided to live with two of them for a fortnight.
30 March 2010 [16:12]
A 74 year-old has become Britain's oldest father.
30 March 2010 [15:40]
A 13 year-old prodigy studying at an American university is threatening to sue his school after being told he is too young to take part in a field trip to South Africa.
30 March 2010 [14:55]
Bats which have evolved to avoid having their echo signals blocked by interference could help scientists develop more efficient sonar and radar systems.
30 March 2010 [13:40]
Russia has abolished two of its time zones in a bid to boost waking hours, communications and industrial productivity.
30 March 2010 [12:43]
A row has been sparked in China over plans to revive an ancient custom for naked men to drag boats through a local beauty spot.
30 March 2010 [12:19]
Police say 67 sheep died when a pair of dogs attacked them and sent them fleeing into the path of a freight train in southwestern Germany.
29 March 2010 [16:43]
Doctors in China have reportedly said that they will not act to reduce a male patient's chest size until they know the cause of his enlarged breasts.
29 March 2010 [14:10]
A book exploring the relationship between yarn-based crafts and complex mathematics has won the strangest literary award in Britain - the Diagram Prize for oddest book title of the year.
29 March 2010 [13:12]
According to Sci Fi Wire, the Mars-rover Opportunity has discovered berry-like clusters growing around a crater on the red planet.
28 March 2010 [17:07]
26 March 2010 [13:46]
26 March 2010 [12:45]
26 March 2010 [11:25]
25 March 2010 [14:35]
25 March 2010 [12:55]
Okay, so below is an interesting list of weird facts, some of which may not be true, but it's still a fun read.
25 March 2010 [12:23]
A Chinese historian has recreated what he claims was the first pedal-powered cycle ever invented - which he says was in use over 2,000 years before the first western bicycle.
24 March 2010 [14:19]
Just like a happy youngster, birthday boy Riley wolfs down his cake and pulls a satisfied ‘doggy-smile’ for the camera.
24 March 2010 [13:20]
A cosmetic surgeon has developed a 'boob job' operation without the need for implants.
24 March 2010 [12:28]
A boy in China who has 31 fingers and toes - a world record - is to undergo surgery to remove the extras digits.
24 March 2010 [11:43]
A teenager gave medics a surprise when he walked into casualty with a 10-inch knife stuck right through in his skull - after a row over computer games.
24 March 2010 [10:36]
Joe Biden has reportedly used the f-word to describe the US's new healthcare reform law.
23 March 2010 [12:10]
23 March 2010 [10:44]
It looks so realistic that you would almost expect it to start crying. But it won’t, of course, because it is in fact a hyper-realistic doll based on a newborn baby.
22 March 2010 [12:27]
What’s the most unusual place to get married? At the bottom of Grand Canyon, perhaps?
22 March 2010 [10:38]
Married people are twice as likely to become obese than their single counterparts, scientists claim.
20 March 2010 [15:30]
This woman Josephine Myrtle corbin has 4 leg. and she was known as the four legged woman. Josephene Myrtle Corbin, the Four-Legged Woman, was born in Lincoln County, Tennessee in 1868.
20 March 2010 [13:50]
20 March 2010 [13:31]
Police investigate after a Washington man put his 4-year-old son up for sale on Craigslist, with an asking price of $5000.
20 March 2010 [12:15]
19 March 2010 [19:21]
19 March 2010 [18:44]
Indian man Ashok Kumthekar entered Guinness Book of Records as an Indian equivalent of - Limca Book of Records, whose number of fingers is 26.
19 March 2010 [17:12]
Robot teachers have been given the thumbs up in South Korea, with a government report saying they have been a hit with pupils during a pilot project - and they could be teaching in up to 8,000 schools across the nation in a few years time.
19 March 2010 [16:45]
A barn owl that rides a skateboard has become a hit at its local shopping centre.
19 March 2010 [15:08]
The Playboy channel has accidentally been aired on children's TV for two hours.
Human rights in Armenian and the PACE farce
UNESCO celebrates 950th anniversary of Diwan Lughat al-Turk
Azerbaijan's FM meets with Secretary of Holy See for Relations with States and International Organizations
Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry congratulates Kingdom of Bahrain on national holiday
Decottigny is more of a salad than a diplomat
Azerbaijan's Ministry of Emergency Situations marks 19th Anniversary
First VP Mehriban Aliyeva shares footage of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan singing Sari Gelin