Lifeboat crews were called after a man thought he saw a "flare" that turned out to be the planet Jupiter.
A group of Amish men have been breaking in to homes in Ohio and cutting off people's hair and beards.
Two participants of the "world's hottest chilli" contest ended up in hospital after eating killer curry.
Police eventually got the 76-year-old to stop by running alongside her car and tapping on the window.
Locals were left baffled this week when a penguin turned up on the southern coast of England.
50-year-old Jonathan Brown has spent 12 years learning how to speak the fictional Klingon language.
A remarkable cat born with two faces has defied the odds by living 12 years with the condition.
Nicolas Cage has been likened to a man in an old civil war photograph taken in 1870.
Cheerleader and dancer Bridgette Jordan is the world's smallest woman at just 2ft in height.
A woman who ordered goods online was shocked to discover a tarantula at the bottom of the box.
Chris Walton hasn't clipped her nails for 18 years and as a result they measure up to 10ft in length.
67-year-old Peter Glazebrook smashed the previous record with his 17lbs 15 and a half ounce vegetable.
A man who lost his thumb in an accident has had his toe transplanted on to his hand in place of it.
Sara Eason got the surprise of her life when she opened a bag of Tesco supermarket salad.
A woman in Florida was arrested after biting a man in a wheelchair while claiming to be a vampire.
A moose intoxicated by eating fermented apples was found tangled up in a tree in Sweden.
A man in the UK has been banned from supermarkets for bringing his 6ft pet snake with him.
The car featured in the original Pink Panther TV series is to go under the hammer next month.
A brother and sister have sued their own mother for $50,000 on the grounds of bad parenting.
John Mosley has had an entire Where's Wally? scene tattooed on his back complete with 150 characters.