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Ten-year-old Katie Borka didn’t need luck to set a Guinness World Record in her own backyard.But the Spotsylvania County girl did...
Montogomery, Ala. After suffering a series of mysterious health problems, an Alabama woman finally discovered what was causing...
A South African woman has been discovered alive in a morgue shortly after being declared dead in a car crash.The woman was found...
June 22:Microsoft founder Bill Gates is pouring $4 million into a project to create killer mosquitoes that destroy each other...
Assam, India:Technicians who arrived to fix a malfunctioning cash machine in the Indian state of Assam got a shock when they...
Pueblo West, Colo. June 22:The Pueblo County Sheriff’s Office discovered more than 400 plants at a Pueblo West home Friday...
June 22:Sure, it’s common in New York City to see men in suits commuting on the subway or in taxis - but on a paddle board...
June 25:Over 110 baby cobras and two adult cobras were rescued from a house in a village in Odisha’s Bhadrak district, forest...
A newly-convicted murderer in Florida repeatedly punched his defense attorney after a judge handed down his verdict.The American...
Parents of a 5-year-old Kansas boy were hit with a $132,000 bill after their son knocked over an art sculpture on display at a...
For at least 14 years, investigators searched the world for a stolen letter written by Christopher Columbus in 1493. And it was...
NZ, June 18: In a bizarre criminal case, an Upper Hutt man has been charged with stealing two human toes from an exhibition...
IQ scores have been steadily falling for the past few decades, and environmental factors are to blame, a new study says.The...
A Jamaican lottery winner couldn’t stop smiling and winking as she was handed an oversized cheque for the equivalent of $1.8...
June 11:The women in a village near Barcelona have voted to go topless in public swimming pools, scrapping a local ban.The vote...
Warrenton, VA:Goff was able to stay calm long enough to pull her SUV off the road and get out quickly. The Virginia law firm...
June 5:A gardener who was stunned to discover a human skull while digging up potatoes was left floored when his wife calmly...
A traffic stop led to a surprise reunion between a New Jersey state trooper and a retired police officer who delivered him as a...
The landline telephone - curly corded, cord-free, rotary or with chunky plastic buttons - used to be a fixture of American homes....
A ‘naked’ choir performance by a group of South African schoolgirls has led to calls for investigation by the country’s education...
An American schoolteacher has been charged after allegedly feeding a sick puppy to a snapping turtle in front of his students....
A Florida man battling a roach invasion at his apartment had to go to a hospital after a roach laid an egg in his ear.Blake...
A real estate sign that was washed away during Hurricane Sandy just showed up in France.Diane Turton Realtors, of Point Pleasant...
A Labrador in the Argentinian city of General Roca has become a local attraction and an online sensation for a very peculiar...
June 4:An off-duty FBI agent accidentally shot a bystander in the leg when his gun fell from its holster as he cavorted on the...
Michael Rotondo refuses to move out of his parents’ house.So much so that the 30-year-old argued for a half-hour with a judge in...
May 24:A man who reportedly drove his vehicle through the window of a Niles seafood market wasn’t going to let that interfere...
Independence, Mo. May 23:A senior at Truman High School will not be allowed to walk in his graduation because of a prank he...
Morro Bay, Calif.Giovanni’s Fish Market in Morro Bay makes money by selling seafood, but its owner made news this month when he...
May 25:The oldest known case of dandruff has been identified in a small feathered dinosaur that roamed the Earth about 125m years...
Calif. May 24:An accident at a San Diego area crematorium sent heavy smoke up in the air containing ashes of human remains.The...
May 17: A Japanese rail company has apologised after a train left a station 25 seconds early, the second such case in months...
May 16:Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) appear to keep tidier sleeping arrangements than humans do. That’s one finding of a recent...
May 21:About 5 a.m. on Saturday, a police department in Ohio got an unusual call. A man reported that he was being followed home...
May 16:Kelly M. Cochran, already serving a life sentence in Michigan for her boyfriend’s murder, was sentenced Wednesday in Lake...
May 20:ASkowhegan man was charged with criminal use of explosives Sunday after local and Maine State Police spent the morning...
May 21:An NYPD officer who had just gotten married died along with an NYPD detective when their rented Maserati veered off the...
Hamstrung by troubles with lethal injection - gruesomely botched attempts, legal battles and growing difficulty obtaining drugs...
May 14:When Su Yun bought her family a puppy two years ago, she was surprised by how much the dog ate. “A box of fruits and two...
May 14:Organisers of an all-you-can-eat pizza festival have apologised after repeatedly running out of pizza slices.Customers had...
LANTANA, May 11:A Lantana-area man said he bit his 2-year-old dog’s ear in an attempt to “establish dominance,” Palm...
May 15:Researchers were able to transfer the memories of a sea slug scared of being shocked to another sea slug. They were able...
May 11:An Australian sexuality educator has created quite a stink over her suggestion for teaching babies the concept of consent...
Buncombe County, N.C., May 3:A North Carolina man drove about 40 miles with thousands of bees loose in the cab of his truck, WLOS...
May 2:Researchers have developed an ultra thin and flexible membrane, less than a thousandth of a millimetre thick, that can be...
May 4:Chinese authorities are looking for a man who was filmed carrying a dolphin over his shoulder at a beach in the city of...
UK, May 8:Scientists have trained a spider to jump on demand as part of work to develop agile mini-robots.The regal jumping...
Five boxes of live year-old crocodiles were seized at Heathrow Airport last week because of unfair transportation conditions....
May 7:A British man has described the moment he desperately fought to save his fiancée as her arm was bitten off by a crocodile,...
An art museum in the south of France has discovered that more than half of its collection consists of fakes, in what the local...
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