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Oct 27: A Sydney lawyer was mistakenly transferred $24.5 million overnight, but her bank initially wouldn’t do anything about it...
Oct 30: Durability engineers at Ford tasked with putting the Fiesta’s new seats through its paces have been lent a helping hand,...
Oct 31: Lamp posts are being covered in airbags to stop so-called ‘smartphone zombies’ bumping into them as they walk around...
Oct 31: A seven-year-old girl who ran away from her parents managed to take a train to Geneva airport and board a plane despite...
Nov 1: A bride has confessed how she had her little toe broken and the tendons snapped - so she could fit in her wedding shoes....
Oct 31: Police have been known to catch drug users and criminals. However, in the Cebu City Police Office (CCPO) in Camp Sotero...
Oct 17: A man who only wanted to get rid of unwanted pests has managed to burn down his home with a blowtorch.Officials in Tucson...
Oct 20: McDonald’s has apologised after a customer at an outlet in Bangkok found what appeared to be cockroach legs floating in a...
Oct 24: A British diver said he swam for miles to safety after a shark stalked him when he lost sight of his boat off the coast...
Oct 19: The head physician of an American university football team has been called in to treat an injured gorilla after she got...
Oct 16: Passengers aboard an AirAsia flight from Perth to Bali Sunday have criticized the flight crew for allegedly screaming...
Oct 15: The dumped girlfriend of a banker in the Bahamas reportedly got her revenge by driving his Mercedes car into his swimming...
Oct 13: Malcom Applegate took extreme action to leave his wife, who he says started showing controlling behaviour towards him....
Oct 13: A cigar once smoked by former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill has sold for $12,000 (£9,000), according to the...
Oct 13: A celebrity penguin, which made international headlines after forming an attachment to a cardboard cut-out in a Japanese...
Guðni Jóhannesson says he feels fine after being treated in hospital, where he received stitches
Oct 13: Iceland’s president, Guðni Jóhannesson, has said he feels fine after he hit his forehead and broke his nose when he...
A painting once bought for $60 is about to gounder the hammer, billed as “the greatest artisticrediscovery of the 21st century.”...
Jessica Gomes and Aaron Bairos were born to be together.TAUNTON, Mass. Oct 1: “They’re soul mates. They took their first breaths...
An Irish woman has given up on men and decided to marry her dog.
Oct 10: After deducing that the perfect man simply does not exist, Wilhelmina Morgan Callaghan, 43, tied-the-knot to an Irish...
CUSTOMERS at a Newcastle cafe got a side of scary with their eggs on Sunday after the discovery of a 1.5 metre eastern brown...
VALLEY PARK, Mo. Oct 10: Lone Elk Park near Interstate 44 and Valley Park is a popular place for people and photographers to...
A groom in Saudi Arabia walked out of his own wedding ceremony after the bride’s father insisted that his daughter be allowed to...
SEP 18Their encounter was captured by a Facebook user, Kamron Petprayoon, who was taking photos of the male elephant after...
SEP 25A pair of Adolf Hitler’s underpants has fetched $9200 at auction in the United States. The “surprisingly large”...
SEP 23A U.S. Army Reserve Humvee careened out-of-control through throngs of Long Island Bacon Bash foodies before striking a...
SEP 15Marysville, A Marysville business is raising money for the Yuba County Sheriff’s Department in an unconventional way.The...
SEP 25Sue Berkeley and Eli Bob, an Australian couple with a real love for buying things in bulk, tied the knot on Saturday at a...
SEP 20A pensioner has spoken of his shock after claiming his brand new slippers had “swastikas all over the soles”.Sam Purdie was...
SEP 18:Swiss prosecutors are investigating why tens of thousands of euros were flushed down toilets in Geneva.The €500 (£440; $...
SEP 16:A koala in Australia survived a lengthy trip while clinging to the axle of a four-wheel drive vehicle.The driver was...
SEP 18:Snails aren’t normally considered a predator, but researchers are hoping a world-first study will prove the Triton sea...
PHOENIX, An Arizona man was hospitalized after surviving a rattlesnake bite to the face while trying to show off to friends at a...
SEP 19:An Australian snake catcher said a family was lucky to evade some truly unfortunate injuries when a venomous snake camped...
Leitchfield, Ky. Sep 18: The search is on for a man who broke into a Kentucky funeral home and dressed in a dead man’s clothes....
SEP 8:A California man arrived home on Tuesday to find Michelle Irene Watkins naked and asleep in his bedroom, according to a...
SEP 6: An ixodid tick that was on display here during a press conference at the Miyazaki Prefectural Government office on...
A British man has been fined for swimming across the Colorado river at the Hoover Dam while drunk on a stag do. Aaron Hughes is...
SEP 6:A German court has upheld a man’s right to break wind in public after he was fined 900 euros for two episodes in front of a...
A photographer has settled a two-year legal fight against an animal rights group over a “monkey selfie” picture.Naruto the...
Man won’t tell them how it got there
SEP 10: Surgeons in Guangzhou recently removed a glass cup from a married man’s anus, and he isn’t saying how it got there....
SEP 10:A Florida sheriff has pleaded with citizens not to shoot at Hurricane Irma, saying they “won’t turn it around”.The Pasco...
SEP 4:A schoolgirl will have quite a story to tell when she returns to the classroom - after discovering a sword in the same lake...
AUG 31:Hell, Michigan, is without a mayor today as the small, unincorporated town’s former chief official, Elijah Daniel, found...
SEP 3: A Japanese princess is giving up her royal status to marry a commoner she fell in love with because of his ‘bright...
SEP 4: What was meant to be a happy occasion quickly turned tragic, after a 32-year-old Japanese man died from falling...
New Zealand, Sep 5: A man who had too much to drink and sold his car to get more alcohol woke the next day to find it gone and...
Aug 28: Lucky the frog is aptly-named, for he was just one fork stab away from becoming a California woman’s meal when she...
Aug 25: A lonely monkey at an Israeli zoo has found a way to soothe her maternal urges: by adopting a chicken.Niv, an Indonesian...
Aug 28: Police say the women walked into the Citizens Bank on Route 611 around 12:20 p.m. with a gun and demanded money. Both...
Oman police are giving some hands-on advice to motorists and warning drivers against using their feet... yes, feet... to clutch...
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