Weird / Interesting
19 March 2010 [14:13]
19 March 2010 [13:45]
Employees of the Technological Institute of Karlsruhe in Germany have created a material that makes things invisible in three dimensions.
19 March 2010 [12:23]
A 12-year-old girl has been reunited with her pet Labrador which went missing five years ago.
19 March 2010 [11:00]
At the 2010 New Year World Peace Gala in Chicago, which was held on January 9th, 2010, Jin Linlin amazed the crowd with her impressive hula hoop abilities. And impressive they are.
18 March 2010 [16:15]
Coprolite Dinosaur Poop Watch If you're going to pay more than $11,000 for a watch, you'd probably want it to be made of gold and encrusted in precious gems... not poop.
18 March 2010 [14:12]
18 March 2010 [12:28]
If you've been waiting all this time to see an alpaca riding on a surfboard, then rejoice - your wait is over.
18 March 2010 [11:09]
A British soldier who lost his sight in Iraq is being taught to 'see' with his tongue, using a revolutionary new device.
18 March 2010 [10:34]
17 March 2010 [19:03]
17 March 2010 [15:20]
Donna Simpson might be listed as the fattest woman in the world since she has the ultra big body size. Believe it or not, there are women out there who would love to gain weight, instead of losing it.
17 March 2010 [13:27]
Tiny tourist Manuka is as happy as a pig in... well, the city, as she enjoys her first trip to London.
17 March 2010 [12:24]
The event hosted in Melbourne Australia was gathered around 900 people to lunch together and it could be the world longest lunch event in Melbourne during 2010 Melbourne Food and Wine Festival.
17 March 2010 [11:43]
17 March 2010 [10:20]
It looks like 1.83ft-high Khagendra Thapa Magar from Nepal will grab the crown of world's shortest man, but according to Wikipedia, a man from Manila called Ronjay Eduvas also measures the same height.
16 March 2010 [18:00]
A farmer in China was surprised by a newborn calf - when it turned out to have an extra two legs and a second tail growing out of its back.
16 March 2010 [17:24]
A British pair caught kissing in public in Dubai face up to a month in jail in the Gulf Arab emirate for indecency after an Emirati mother complained her child had seen their indiscretion.
16 March 2010 [16:08]
Regrowing amputated limbs, broken backs and even damaged brains could one day be a reality after scientists discovered a gene that is key to the almost magical ability.
16 March 2010 [14:57]
An award-winning porn director has been selected as a Liberal Democrat candidate.
16 March 2010 [13:55]
An incredible window into the prehistoric past has been opened by the scientific, life-like, reconstruction of the nearly complete remains of an 11-foot long, 67 million year old serpent that was found near a village in Gujarat in western India.
16 March 2010 [12:55]
A Scot is said to have made history after winning the right not to specify gender and to instead have "Sex Not Specified" on his birth certificate.
16 March 2010 [12:23]
Babies are born to dance and find the rhythm and tempo of music more engaging than speech, research has shown.
16 March 2010 [11:40]
16 March 2010 [10:34]
The world's shortest man - who was just over 2ft 5in tall - has died aged 21, the Guinness World Records has said.
16 March 2010 [09:45]
15 March 2010 [19:50]
A homeless man in eastern central China has caused a stir with his movie star good looks and dress sense from the catwalks of international high fashion.
15 March 2010 [19:05]
15 March 2010 [18:23]
A student from Lancashire is convinced that a kitchen nightmare brought him face to face with Jesus Christ in his frying pan.
15 March 2010 [15:00]
Bottled fresh air from some of Britain’s favourite beauty spots is being offered to stressed city workers.
15 March 2010 [13:28]
15 March 2010 [12:40]
Dispatchworks New YorkNew York may be crumbling, but a German artist is doing his part to put it all back together.
15 March 2010 [11:12]
In an effort to sustain the image of an island that is squeaky clean, Singapore has maintained its ban on chewing gum sales, which was first imposed in 1992. Known for its Esplanade and beautiful skyline, Singapore is a city in transition.
15 March 2010 [10:27]
A vase thought to have belonged to an 18th Century Chinese emperor turned up an auction in rural Ireland earlier this month and sold for more than 70 times its asking price.
12 March 2010 [17:08]
12 March 2010 [16:20]
12 March 2010 [15:13]
The sex.com web address will be auctioned off next week.
12 March 2010 [12:26]
12 March 2010 [11:25]
A pair of students have broken the world record for the longest hug, after Salford University students Faisal Mohyud-Din and Mohammed Azeem stayed together for over 24 hours.
12 March 2010 [10:05]
Forget five-star luxury... because a new hotel in Switzerland promises nothing.
12 March 2010 [08:49]
12 March 2010 [08:29]
11 March 2010 [16:44]
Bryan Berg gave a (very gentle) sigh of relief when he finally completed the world’s largest ‘house of cards’.
11 March 2010 [13:05]
Scientists are hopeful of finding out more about ancient birds and why they died out after extracting DNA from a huge fossilised elephant bird egg.
11 March 2010 [12:35]
A Kansas man told police officers that he had been beaten and left with a head wound after he tried to buy drugs using Monopoly money.
10 March 2010 [17:30]
True love can take many forms. In this case, it has taken the form of a Korean man falling in love with, and eventually marrying, a large pillow with a picture of a woman on it.
10 March 2010 [16:49]
Cyprus said Tuesday ransom was the motive of thieves who stole the body of former President Tassos Papadopoulos, found in a shallow grave Monday three months after it disappeared from its tomb.
10 March 2010 [16:15]
Loud, obnoxious, and naughty children are the bane of many parents’ existence. Thankfully for the parents in Japan’s Oga Peninsula, Akita Prefecture in northern Honshu, Japan, there is a solution: the infamous Namahage.
10 March 2010 [14:48]
A skydiver has survived plunging 3,000ft to the ground after a parachute jump went disastrously wrong.
10 March 2010 [11:05]
10 March 2010 [09:42]
Weddings are an occasion never to be forgotten, especially when the bride and groom both come from noble origins.
09 March 2010 [19:10]
An African sand dog named Rascal has won the Del Mar Fairgrounds Ugly Dog Contest at its first attempt.
09 March 2010 [18:27]
09 March 2010 [17:50]
A company in Australia has launched pants made from bananas.
09 March 2010 [15:43]
09 March 2010 [14:37]
Canada's parliamentary restaurant will be serving seal meat on Wednesday in a gesture of defiance aimed at a European Union ban on imports of seal products.
09 March 2010 [11:36]
A car crash in Florida is being blamed on the fact that the driver was attempting to shave her pubic hair while at the wheel.
09 March 2010 [10:23]
A thirsty four-year-old boy had to be rescued by firefighters after getting his hand stuck in a vending machine for more than an hour in New Zealand.
08 March 2010 [12:25]
07 March 2010 [12:40]
07 March 2010 [12:00]
07 March 2010 [11:12]
There have been more than 100 sightings of exotic and unidentified animals in England since 2005, according to a dossier compiled by Natural England.
07 March 2010 [10:20]
Officials are warning that tens of thousands of sex workers could enter South Africa during this year’s World Cup, and that children are at risk of being targeted by the sex trade.
07 March 2010 [09:25]
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a bloke jumping out of a plane at 13,000 feet in a kayak.
06 March 2010 [11:55]
06 March 2010 [11:14]
05 March 2010 [16:47]
Police rushed to a park in Tacoma, Washington, after they received reports of a naked woman tied to a tree.
05 March 2010 [14:43]
05 March 2010 [13:52]
A pregnant woman save her husband from the jaws of a crocodile after he almost became the South African reptile's lunch.
05 March 2010 [12:25]
A rogue monkey that has eluded capture for more than a year and appears to be immune to tranquiliser darts has once again escaped from Florida wildlife officials.
05 March 2010 [09:00]
This amazing picture of the Martian landscape has got alien hunters excited about the possibility that it shows a silverback gorilla striking a pose on the Martian surface.
04 March 2010 [17:00]
04 March 2010 [15:20]
04 March 2010 [14:27]
A U.S. Army sergeant who is suing the makers of Oscar-nominated film "The Hurt Locker" said on Wednesday he felt betrayed because they stole his story.
04 March 2010 [13:45]
Touchscreens seem to be everywhere these days - and soon they could be on your body too, thanks to a new gadget that turns a user’s arm into a human touchscreen.
04 March 2010 [12:17]
A 65-year-old farmer in southeast China has been living in a treehouse for the last decade.
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
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