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In a very unusual move, police detectives in Largo, Florida, recently went to a local funeral home and located the body of a man...
The world’s oldest known spider - a 43-year-old female Giaus Villosus trapdoor arachnid - has died, according to Australian...
Virginia: A man who attempted to drown himself in a Virginia pool two years ago is suing the police officers and lifeguard who...
A Nairobi resident was left in shock over the weekend after he was robbed and dumped along Nairobi-Mombasa highway only to find...
Melbourne: Fears of a gas leak caused around 500 students and staff to be evacuated from a university library in Melbourne,...
Apr 21: None of the students at a Massachusetts preschool have a best friend. And that’s an order.Pentucket Workshop Preschool’s...
Apr 24: A barber who gave a ten-year-old boy a “humiliating haircut” and then made him sweep up the hair from the floor has been...
San Francisco, Apr 23: A federal appeals court decided unanimously that animals may not sue for copyright protection.The ruling...
Zoo authorities in China say a kangaroo has been killed and another injured at Fuzhou Zoo in south-eastern Fujian province after...
Apr 23: An Auckland couple has fallen victim to their second avocado heist in six months.Bret Glazer and his partner live in a...
Seattle, Apr 20: A 22-year-old arrested for intentionally hitting two people with his car in Bothell said he did it to change his...
Apr 8: Couples from across the world braved swamps and bogs on a treacherous course in the 11th UK Wife-Carrying Race.Chris...
New Castle, Pa. - Road crews had to make an unusual rescue after two goats wandered onto a Turnpike bridge in western...
Passengers at the Airport were reportedly asked to evacuate and a passenger who noticed the bag said she thought it was a joke....
David Simon, who stands 6ft 7in, falls foul of a new rule designed to make South Korea’s basketball competition less reliant on...
A man who was involved in a pub fight didn’t let the knife sticking out of his back get in the way.He went to order another pint...
Apr 2: Police in India are on the lookout for a monkey that allegedly snatched a baby, whose body was later found inside a well...
A man walked into a police station and said he wanted to break up with his girlfriend but did not know how. A police officer took...
MOSCOW: Yakutsk, a city 5,000 miles from Moscow where temperatures can plummet to minus 85 degrees Fahrenheit, is not the sort of...
Mill Road cemetery, in Cambridge, is a notorious haunt for drug users and is set to be targeted to tackle illegal camps, drug...
Apr 3: The Detroit Zoo is luring visitors with the temptation of a free bucket of animal poop.On Saturday, April 14, the zoo will...
Apr 4: A young Indian woman was lucky to survive, doctors say, after she fought off a tiger which attacked her goat.Rupali...
UK, Mar 26: The congregation had fallen silent with nervous anticipation.All eyes were on the bride and groom, Jeni Arrowsmith,...
Mar 28: A waiter in Canada is suing his former employer for violating his human rights by firing him, after he had been allegedly...
Mar 28: The Nicholson Museum in Sydney, Australia made the exciting discovery that a coffin which was often left in an acrylic...
New York City wastewater treatment plants will reportedly stop sending trains filled with partially treated sewage to Alabama...
Mar 20: A British man who taught his pug to do a Nazi salute when he gave specific verbal commands has been found guilty of a...
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. Mar 19: Amanda Dunford was only seven or eight years old when she learned she had a twin sister.Adopted from...
Mar 20: Police in Lancashire, England, pulled over a car for driving with a front tyre missing. The incident took place on March...
Nine-month-old Euphrates was bred to resemble a giant prehistoric monster dog.She eats 8 cups of a dog food a day and prefers to...
Egyptian singer Sherine Abdel Wahab has been sentenced to six months in prison for joking about the cleanliness of the River Nile...
An evangelical pastor from São José dos Campos, Brazil, staged his own kidnapping in an attempt to shake down his own family for...
Mar 13: A Pike County campground owner poured cold water on a renaissance festival that promised a “weekend of fun-filled...
A gin bottle was thrown overboard from a German ship before ending up on a beach in Western Australia 132 years later.The world’s...
Local residents are hitting back at their new robot neighbours – literally – as reports detail assaults on driverless carsThe...
If you’re going to promise a cheese festival, the one thing you really need is cheese.But organisers of an event in Brighton are...
A wild crow that was hand-raised by an Ontario veterinarian as an infant was caught on camera saying “Hello” to a squirrel in the...
A neurosurgeon at Kenya’s largest hospital has been suspended after performing brain surgery on the wrong patient, the hospital...
Jan 16: Glenford Turner had surgery in 2013 at a Veterans Affairs hospital in Connecticut. Four years later, according to a new...
The domesticated animals we know as chickens descended from the red jungle fowl of Southeast Asia about 8,000 years ago.Because...
Jan 18: A rural community in the Eastern Cape is stunned and baffled after a dead woman gave birth inside a coffin.The bizarre ‘...
Jan 21: The city’s police-officers union is cracking down on the number of ‘get out of jail free’ courtesy cards distributed to...
Jan 22: Indian villagers were so excited by a frozen ‘meteor’ that crashed into a farmer’s field Saturday that a few gathered...
jan 18: As far as Catholic weddings go, it’s pretty hard to beat being married by the Pope. On an airplane.But that’s what...
Jan 19: Cold temperatures and more than a foot of snow seems to have enhanced the sense of humour up north.According to WGCL...
Jan 10: A teacher in eastern China has been suspended after a video went viral of her blocking a train’s doors from closing...
Jan 16: Police in central Germany have arrested a man who allegedly broke into a house, ransacked the property and then fell...
The thermometer in a remote Siberian village known as the coldest inhabited place on earth has broken as temperatures plunged to...
Jan 16: A library in Ankara gives new meaning to the notion that books are timeless.Garbage collectors in the Turkish capital...
Jan 12: Gemstones from the crown jewels were hidden in a biscuit tin at Windsor Castle for safekeeping during World War Two, a...
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