A 28 year-old man blew himself up after trying to kill a spider hiding behind his bathroom toilet.
A company in the UK is offering a service that will press your ashes in to a vinyl recording of your own voice.
One dairy farmer in Glastonbury has given his cows waterbeds to help encourage them to produce better milk.
Doctors in Argentina have removed the world's largest tumour weighing almost 4 stone from a patient.
A 21-year-old children's worker is so scared of bananas that she has been diagnosed as suffering from bananaphobia.
A man who kept his mother's remains in a backpack is just one of a number of similar cases in Japan.
Several brave contestants took part in a competition to see who could manage the largest beard of honey bees.
A bear cub has been rescued by a local wildlife commission after having its head stuck in a plastic jar for 10 days.
Doctors attempting to diagnose a man with a severe cough discovered a pea plant growing inside one of his lungs.
A lamb born with only two legs in China has been spared after the farmer was inspired by its will to survive.
A massive hailstone weighing over a kilo has been confirmed as the largest ever recovered in the United States.
An octopus credited with predicting the World Cup results has become a sensation in Germany.
Japan's oldest man at 111 years old was found to have been dead for 30 years and mummified in his own bed.
Hoping to take over from He Pingping who died this year Huang Kaiquan is on track to be crowned world's smallest man.
A cave system near Sydney is going to be the first in the world to offer tours spoken in Klingon.
Controversy has surrounded a Canadian Anglican church after a vicar gave Holy Communion to an Alsation called Trapper.
A must for every Elvis fan, the tools used during the autopsy conducted on the star in 1977 are going up for auction.
A donkey floating across the sky wearing a parachute stunned beachgoers this week in Russia.
Lab monkeys in Japan succeeded in catapulting themselves from trees in order to escape over an electric fence.
A man from Georgia who dislocated his jaw biting in to a giant sandwich has had the delicacy renamed in his honour.