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The bride and groom, from Gujarat, India, were set to get married in February Groom’s 48-year-old father and the bride’s...
Jan 19: The world’s shortest man who could walk, as verified by Guinness World Records, died on January 17 at a hospital in Nepal...
A teacher in Spain has come up with an inventive way to teach students about anatomy, according to reports.Veronica Duque, 43,...
BARRIE, Jan 7: Residents at Dufferin Oaks Long Term Care home in Shelburne are wondering if there’s something in the water....
When producers of the family sitcom Leave It to Beaver wanted to air an episode in 1957 in which the Beav and brother Wally hide...
‘This incident shows just how important it is to have smoke alarms on every level of your home,’ says a fire station manager.An “...
Recently, doctors in the UK surgically removed a 14cm-long “dragon horn” from a man’s lower back. The 50-year-old patient...
The woman was treated for frostbite after she was rescued.A woman has been rescued after being stuck inside a clothing donation...
While some consider licking their nose with their tongue as a mean feat, this man takes his ‘talent’ to a whole new level.Jaw...
Geckos have many unique abilities, but running on water has got to be one of their most impressive feats. It has not been...
A Paris hospital which made a public appeal for stool samples for a study on intestinal diseases said it had suspended the...
Nick Prosser has had a stutter all his life but with the luck of the Irish it had almost disappeared completely.The 28-year-old...
In what can only be described as a miracle, a Michigan woman who was nearly brain-dead following a heart attack started to...
London, Aug 13: A parrot stuck on a London roof treated firefighters who came to its aid this morning with a torrent of...
Norwich, UK: A man has been charged with walking a pig along a busy city street in Norwich - without a lead.Norfolk Police...
German police have rescued a man after he called for help saying a baby squirrel would not leave him alone.Emergency services...
The Winnipeg Police Service arrested a 34-year-old Winnipeg man they said had large machetes taped to both of his hands in...
A British man said he felt “let down” after discovering he was mourning for his daughter at the wrong grave for 30 years.George...
A woman who has been driving her neighbours crazy by blasting out opera music for 16 years has finally been arrested in Slovakia...
Police in the Swiss city of Zurich are urging owners to buy shoes for their dogs, to protect their paws in the high temperatures...
An elderly cat has finally found its way home after it went missing for more than a decade.Janet Adamowicz was heartbroken when...
A goat, which was found on a local train in Mumbai, was charged as a ticketless traveller, and auctioned for Rs 2,500.The...
All four members of the police department in Blandford, Mass., resigned suddenly and without notice, saying they could no longer...
An errant fly ruined a world record domino attempt in Germany recently.Participants at a domino event in the town of Nidda, near...
Donkeys on the Greek island of Santorini are being badly injured by being forced to carry overweight tourists, according to...
Minneapolis (WCCO)A mama duck in Minnesota has captured hearts across the nation after a Bemidji photographer snapped an image of...
Arizona, July 25Wildlife officials in Arizona said toads are being stolen from a conservation area and the thieves are believed...
Nematodes moving and eating again for the first time since the Pleistocene age in major scientific breakthrough, say experts.The...
West Bend, Wis.A Wisconsin man needed multiple amputations after contracting a blood infection from being licked by a dog -...
Ivanovo, Central Russia: A driver of a truck that caught fire in central Russia received “help” from an unlikely source when...
July 21:Gracelyn Mae Violet Griffin already had a “Little Nugget” onesie picked out for her before she arrived in the world...
“Back in 1997 the consensus was when they took off from Drummond they were supposed to go south.”Federal investigators confirmed...
The world is celebrating a slithering creature that most people fear – Monday, July 16 was World Snake Day.Some cultures revere...
Remember those experiments where bus stations and the like would play classical music in the hope it would drive away...
Two prisoners have escaped from a jail in Mexico’s northern Sinaloa state by disguising themselves as prison guards.The two...
July 13: A motorist was stopped by police for driving while sitting on a bucket and steering with pliers.The battered...
Vancouver, Washington:Generally, you’re supposed to break out of an escape room, not into one. But in Vancouver, Washington, a...
The man with the world’s longest fingernails has finally cut them off.Shridhar Chillal of Pune, India, started to let the...
A scuba diver was stunned to make an unexpected find at the bottom of the sea - when an iPhone lit up when it received a text....
A New Jersey pug named Bean had a rough weekend when she was collared by cops for sneaking through a stranger’s yard.“This is...
Thousands of years before the advent of agriculture, people were already making bread. That’s the surprising conclusion of a new...
Human poo has been mysteriously falling from the sky across Canada – leaving people, cars and property covered in faeces.The...
Cigarette:A suspected drunken driver went back to his burning car Sunday to try lighting his cigarette using the flames,...
If books could kill … scientists in Denmark have found high levels of arsenic in three books from the 16th and 17th centuries....
The ‘Avozilla’, which is being farmed in Queensland, weighs more than a kilo and is expected to sell for $12 eachThey look like...
Research published July 5 ended the long running debate if spiders can use the silk they weave as a parachute to fly through the...
Indian River County, Florida:A Florida man came up with an interesting defense when confronted by officers in Indiana River...
They say that the stork delivers babies to their mothers, but all this one brought to a wildlife charity was an absolutely...
Masafumi Nagasaki was living in a state of perfect bliss, spending his days wandering naked and alone on a Pacific island,...
Melbourne, Fla. June 28:Charles Folk had just been released from the Brevard County jail and needed a ride to his Melbourne home...
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