Troops to wear blast-proof underpants
6-29-2010 |
9
British troops in Afghanistan may soon be issued with blast-proof underpants to prevent unfortunate injuries.
Aquarium owners predict football results with octopus
6-28-2010 | 31
In a peculiar story this week Paul the "psychic octopus" has allegedly been credited with predicting football results.
Labourer survives with half his head missing
6-26-2010 | 6
A 28-year-old labourer was left with half his head missing after falling 25 feet on a building site.
The bizarre banana-shaped egg
6-25-2010 | 6
A bizarre egg has been laid in the Anhui province of China that is shaped like a banana.
Prisoner 'killed cellmate and ate his lung'
6-22-2010 | 32
In a bizarre incident a prisoner in France killed his cellmate before removing and consuming one of his lungs.
The man who grows extra bones in his body
6-21-2010 | 10
Dan Aziere has a rare genetic disorder due to which he has an estimated 50 extra bones in his body.
Colorado girl struck by lightning in her bedroom
6-6-2010 | 14
A 9-year-old girl was in her bedroom watching TV when a lighting strike came in her window and hit her.
Half-ton cheese carving smashes world record
6-3-2010 | 11
Chef Tanys Pullin spent 90 hours carving a sculpture of a crown out of a gigantic half-ton block of cheddar cheese.
Frenchman with no arms or legs set to swim Channel
6-2-2010 | 11
Philippe Croizon will attempt a world record by being the first person with no arms or legs to swim the English Channel.
Gunther 'Dr Death' von Hagens opens shop
5-29-2010 | 8
Gunther von Hagens has opened a shop selling plasticised limbs and body cuts in his own "cabinet of horrors."
Man pulls plane with his eyelids
5-25-2010 | 14
A chinese martial arts expert has astronished crowds by pulling a plane via a rope attached to his eyelids.
Son, father and grandfather all born on same day
5-24-2010 | 26
The odds are 272,910 to one yet this family has had a son, father and grandfather all born on the same day.
Relatives to exhume and freeze man's head
5-17-2010 | 14
An Iowa court has ordered the remains of an 81-year-old man to be exhumed so his head can be cut off and frozen.
Bra that grows rice developed in Japan
5-14-2010 | 22
A company in Japan have developed a unique bra made of plastic pots that doubles up as a rice paddy.
Snoopy fails miserably in attempted jailbreak
5-11-2010 | 12
In what's being hailed as the worst attempted jailbreak ever a man dressed as Snoopy tried to free an inmate.
New Zealand man 'attacked by vampires'
5-7-2010 | 21
A man in New Zealand has been attacked in the dark by three "vampires" who bit him and drank his blood.
Postman marries his cat
5-4-2010 | 58
A postman from Germany has hit the headlines this week after holding a ceremony in which he married his pet cat.
Chinese man has eaten 1,500 light bulbs
5-2-2010 | 19
A man in China claims that over the last 40 years he has consumed over 1500 glass light bulbs for snacks.
Man crashes car, claims aliens made him do it
4-28-2010 | 22
A man in Australia who crashed his car in to another car has claimed that the "head alien" told him to do it.
1 in 5 think haggis is a hill-dwelling animal
4-24-2010 | 41
In a recent poll it has been revealed that 1 in 5 people in Britain think haggis is actually an animal.
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