Weird / Interesting
05 May 2010 [13:28]
More than 1,700 people in fancy dress have set a new world record for the largest ever gathering of pirates.
05 May 2010 [12:52]
Can whales paint pictures? Think before you respond, as at the Qingdao Polar Ocean World oceanarium in China the answer might surprise you.
05 May 2010 [12:06]
05 May 2010 [11:49]
The BlackBerry was first predicted more than a century ago, by Nikola Tesla, the electrical engineer, it has been claimed.
05 May 2010 [11:40]
Meeting beautiful women can be bad for your health and increase levels of the body's stress hormone cortisol, according to a survey by the University of Valencia.
05 May 2010 [10:30]
The Australian prime minister has been following porn sites online - all because of an inadvertent setting on his Twitter account.
04 May 2010 [17:30]
04 May 2010 [16:17]
04 May 2010 [14:42]
Comic book shoppers in Australia could only marvel as Spider-Man swooped to prevent an in-store robbery.
03 May 2010 [16:13]
03 May 2010 [13:23]
A Chinese man has eaten more than 1,500 light bulbs since he was aged 12.
03 May 2010 [11:35]
03 May 2010 [11:09]
Hundreds of people shed their clothes and their inhibitions, baring all in the name of art.
01 May 2010 [12:42]
A blind boy has learnt how to "see" again after being taught a technique used by dolphins to detect where objects are.
01 May 2010 [10:17]
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez has asked Cuba's Fidel Castro and Bolivian leader Evo Morales to join him in using the social networking site Twitter.
30 April 2010 [17:16]
He's officially the Guinness World Record holder for world's tallest living horse - but his owner says that Big Jake is really just a gentle giant.
30 April 2010 [16:44]
30 April 2010 [15:04]
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger would love to run for president — if he could.
30 April 2010 [11:34]
30 April 2010 [11:16]
A 10-year-old girl stung by the world's most venomous creature - the deadly box jellyfish - may have rewritten medical history, an expert has said.
29 April 2010 [21:00]
Hunter Afanasiy Kiskorov from the Senzansky Kichi village (South of Kemerov district, Russia) claims to have not only seen a living sasquach (aka big foot), but also saved him from death.
29 April 2010 [13:15]
Indian military scientists are studying an 82-year-old who claims he has not had any food or drink for 70 years.
29 April 2010 [12:57]
29 April 2010 [11:55]
29 April 2010 [11:33]
An unexploded Second World War bomb has been discovered outside George Clooney's Lake Como villa.
29 April 2010 [10:30]
Not content with merely appearing on dogs, in frying pans and a Marmite lid, Jesus has moved into the 21st century and found himself a spot on Google Maps.
29 April 2010 [09:40]
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28 April 2010 [11:18]
27 April 2010 [15:03]
Two-time world champion Fernando Alonso gave a 10 million euro ($13.33 million) thumbs-up to future Formula One success with Ferrari Monday.
27 April 2010 [14:25]
A tiny stallion just 14 inches high is thought to be a record breaker as the world's smallest foal.
27 April 2010 [14:04]
Brazilians can fight off chronic illness by engaging regularly in physical exercise, and particularly in sexual intercourse, the country's health minister said.
27 April 2010 [13:08]
A senior police officer claimed that the existence of Loch Ness Monster was "beyond doubt", in letter to a Government minister that has come to light after 70 years.
26 April 2010 [11:25]
A German Shepherd named Buddy saved his owner's home by guiding emergency services to the blazing building.
26 April 2010 [10:16]
24 April 2010 [12:56]
An applicant "will be asked whether or not his vital organ has been enlarged," said Papua police chief Bekto Suprapto.
23 April 2010 [18:16]
A man who accidentally set himself on fire while using petrol to light a bonfire was saved when his teenage son sprayed him with a bottle of Coca Cola.
23 April 2010 [17:47]
An Iranian cleric bizarrely claimed that women in sexy clothes cause earthquakes, so thousands of ladies in Facebook's 'Boobquake' campaign will show off their assets this Monday to prove him wrong.
23 April 2010 [17:05]
Vladimir Lenin's moth-eaten socks have gone on display in Ukraine's capital.
23 April 2010 [16:35]
23 April 2010 [16:12]
Bolivian President Evo Morales has drawn controversy after he said that men should avoid eating chicken if they want to maintain their virility and stop going bald.
23 April 2010 [15:30]
A 65-year-old man who has spent 50 years feeling guilty after he stole a packet of Jaffa Cakes from work has now tracked down his former boss to reimburse him.
23 April 2010 [13:46]
A team of mountaineers are planning to retrieve the bodies of climbers who have lost their lives on Mount Everest.
23 April 2010 [12:55]
It's been a while since we've had a decent two-headed animal on these pages. So, without further ado, we proudly present… the two-headed lizard.
21 April 2010 [18:24]
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21 April 2010 [16:30]
Three people have been hospitalised after an angry goat invaded a nursing home in Melbourne, Australia, and went on a rampage that ended only when it was caught by police.
20 April 2010 [16:44]
The arrival of three curly coated creatures has caused confusion among visitors to a zoo.
20 April 2010 [16:15]
Divers searching for a boat sun-shield that had fallen in Lake Zurich on Sunday instead discovered thirteen funeral urns containing human ashes, Swiss police said.
20 April 2010 [14:56]
Builders digging up the garden at John Lennon's old house have stumbled upon what is believed to be his long-lost LSD stash.
20 April 2010 [12:51]
A government official in east China has been detained after allegedly accepting bribes in order to fund a personal target of sleeping with 800 women.
20 April 2010 [11:56]
Thousands of people in one county of southern China have been sterilized in just days as part of a crackdown on violations of the country’s controversial one-child policy.
20 April 2010 [10:27]
George Washington reportedly owes an inflation-adjusted library fine of $300,000 (£197,000) for failing to return two books.
19 April 2010 [15:16]
A letter from a first-class passenger on board the Titanic has fetched £55,000 at auction - a record price for a piece of written correspondence from the ship.
19 April 2010 [12:25]
A Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Kim Komenich can add a new talent to his resume - crime fighting.
19 April 2010 [10:42]
Photographed just ten feet from the world's largest land predator, these images of sleeping polar bears catch the powerful animals at their cutest.
19 April 2010 [09:15]
18 April 2010 [14:25]
A New Zealand diver was forced to give chase after an octopus wrestled his brand new digital camera from his hands and swam away, with the camera still recording.
17 April 2010 [12:12]
The carpet woven by Persian masters in the 17 century became the most expensive carpet in the world.
17 April 2010 [11:17]
Scientists have discovered a new species of leech sporting large teeth after it was plucked from a girl's nose.
17 April 2010 [10:51]
A Sussex carpenter is hoping to break a world record by spending nearly four months in a room with some of the world's most venomous snakes.
16 April 2010 [18:09]
This brave little critter loves life on the road – or at least in the road.
16 April 2010 [17:43]
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16 April 2010 [16:08]
Far more people in India have access to a mobile phone than to a toilet, according to a UN study on sanitation.
16 April 2010 [15:22]
A collection of life-size statues on buildings has caused confusion in New York after they were mistaken for real people about to commit suicide.
16 April 2010 [14:44]
16 April 2010 [13:52]
Voters in a US town have elected a dead man as their mayor.
16 April 2010 [13:25]
15 April 2010 [17:05]
The World Biggest Farm Tractor was here. the name of the world largest farm tractor was big bud, it was about 27 feet long and 20 feet wide. you can imagine how large is this farm tractor.
15 April 2010 [15:07]
Swarms of locusts have infested a huge area of eastern Australia roughly the size of Spain after recent floods, ravaging farmland.
15 April 2010 [14:07]
An animal hypnotist claims to be the country's first "rabbit whisperer", treating pets behavioural problems.
EU acknowledges strategic significance of Baku International Sea Trade Port in Middle Corridor
Weapons & ammunition discovered in Khankendi
South Korea conducts live-fire exercises near borders of DPRK
TikTok closed in Kyrgyzstan
Azerbaijani Army units conduct inspection in military equipment
Azerbaijan's AccessBank joins UN Global Compact
Navigating challenges in Azerbaijan's trade turnover amidst global uncertainties