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Jan 11: International flight operations were disrupted at Ahmedabad airport after a cow entered the runway on Thursday. At least...
The way Nan Hauser figured, she was either going to film a miraculous encounter between herself and a 25-ton humpback whale or...
Jan 5: A former Eastenders actress has hit out at a Michelin starred chef after her husband tried to eat his water-inflated...
Jan 9: He must have been dead tired.A Spanish prisoner declared dead by three doctors was only snoozing, a conclusion made by a...
A number of Chinese mobile applications have been shut down after it was revealed women on their platforms were actually...
Jan 4: Nine years ago on a 747-400, Gene and Holly met.He was a pilot, she a flight attendant.On Wednesday, they got married on...
Jan 8: The Environment Minister, Khaled Fahmy, said that the beached fin whale which appeared on Alexandria’s shores on Sunday...
Wagoner County, Oklahoma The Oklahoma Highway Patrol said a 7-year-old boy was hurt when he wrecked a stolen car at high speed a...
Dec 29: A Thai court has sentenced a fraudster to more than 13,000 years in prison.Pudit Kittithradilok, 34, admitted running a...
DENVER, Dec 31: Not all heroes wear capes. But as it turns out, this one sometimes does. Chipotle Mexican Grill recognized one of...
Jan 1: A group of New Zealanders has constructed a sand island in coastal waters, seemingly in a creative attempt to avoid a ban...
Dec 29: It’s an old adage that no matter how bad you have it, there’s always someone worse off. One Russian woman discovered the...
Jan 1: A reported New Year’s Day stabbing in Passaic turned out to be an intoxicated woman who fell down the stairs, according to...
Dec 19:Two elderly straight Irishmen have announced their intention to marry, to avoid Ireland’s high inheritance tax. ...
Sydney, Dec 19: Australian police accidentally broadcast on social media details of an operation to arrest a suspected North...
gets CT scan after 2,000 years, is diagnosed with cancer
Dec 11: Modern medicine can be a truly amazing thing, extending and in sometimes outright saving the lives of people who would...
Dec 12: Plans to celebrate the 150th anniversary of an Australian town have hit a hurdle, after local authorities found they were...
HILLSBORO, Ore. - A package thief got a stinky surprise after messing with the wrong mom in Hillsboro.The mom, Angie Boliek, said...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A Missouri woman said a man took out a gun and shot at her after she refused to give him her telephone number...
Dec 11: A man who gave his daughter in marriage to two men at the same time is being questioned in Saudi Arabia on charges of...
Dec. 11 (UPI) -- Uber charged a Toronto man more than $18,000 for a 5-mile ride that should have cost about $10 Friday after an...
Dec 3: A squirrel was found to be responsible for cutting multiple Christmas light wires in a New Jersey town.The town of Sea...
Customs officials at a Chinese airport had a nasty surprise when they opened a couple’s luggage and discovered it contained...
Dec 5: Blood stains at the end of the Crawford County, Georgia driveway had been covered up with sand Monday in the spot where a...
Dec 4: A hospital in India fired two physicians and promised an investigation after a baby who was declared dead woke up in a bag...
Dec 5: An environmental initiative led by Lebanese airliner Middle East Airlines [MEA] landed itself in hot waters this week,...
Nov 28: A Russian man has died after he pulled the pin out of a hand grenade and posted photographs of himself holding it....
Nov 28: A Seattle family found an unusual guest camping out in their bathroom Friday night: a four-feet-long snake.The family...
Nov 29: Surgeons treating a man with suspected food poisoning were stunned to discover 263 coins and 100 nails in his stomach....
Nov 28: A New Hampshire state judge has dismissed a case brought by an elderly doctor who recently gave up her medical license...
Nov 27: A bobcat lodged into the front grille of a Toyota Prius survived a 50-mile journey in Virginia before animal rescuers...
Nov 28: In Uttar Pradesh’s Jalaun district, convicts of a different kind walked out from the Urai jail on Monday. A herd of eight...
Nov 17: A dog is believed to have died from a broken heart after being abandoned at an airport by her owner for more than a month...
Nov 18: For residents of the US capital, news of a fire on the city’s rapid transit system - the Washington Metro - is not...
Nov 17: A couple pleaded guilty to beating the owner of a Baxley chicken restaurant and her daughter over complaints of cold...
Nov 17: A new study from Cal State University Long Beach (CSULB) has found a person’s ability to recognize different tastes and...
Nov 20: Two women aged 50 and 41 now have to answer to the Mdantsane courts for allegedly conspiring to murder their husbands‚...
Nov 15: The bakery chain Greggs has apologized for offending Christians with a nativity scene advert that replaces Jesus with a...
MIAMI, Nov 14: A notorious Florida conman will serve his 20-year sentence in solitary at the infamous federal Supermax prison -...
Nov 13: A stray cat has been identified as the prime suspect in the attempted murder of an elderly woman found bleeding profusely...
Nov 15: New Zealand police were surprised to find a man apparently playing the bagpipes while driving his car in the city of...
Nov 10: A man’s police interrogation in Kansas City, Missouri was ended prematurely after he began answering questions by ‘gas’,...
Nov 15: Coco Chanel once said a woman with good shoes is never ugly.But what about a man with good boots? A few thousand pairs of...
Three Chinese women who visited South Korea to undergo plastic surgery were allegedly stuck in a South Korean airport because...
Nov 2: The research, involving 256 undergraduates, examined whether people were more emotionally disturbed by reports of humans...
A Malaysian Taoist medium has died after a ‘human steaming’ ritual went wrong as he sat on top of a bubbling wok and was covered...
Nov 4: A 5-year-old girl in Porterville, Calif., received a citation in late October for operating a lemonade stand without a...
Nov 4: A Japanese zoo is finding a new use for animal waste, turning the waste into a new line of notebooks and memo pads.A close...
A country known for its laissez-faire attitude to nudity, France already boasts stacks of beaches, campsites and pools that can...
Australia’s National Broadband Network (NBN), the effort to bring high-speed Internet to the masses down under, has encountered...
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