Tag: weird

A man missing for six days in a remote Australian desert in searing heat without water was found on Tuesday after surviving by eating...

  PARIS-  Some of the stranger stories from the year just ending:   - In February, a California couple out walking their dog struck it rich by unearthing...

SANTIAGO, Chile— Ricardo Alegria is a different sort of milk man. For a quarter century or more, he and his brother Marco have led...

One of the UK’s top universities has given a library card to a cat.   Jordan has turned his back on his Catholic friar owners and...

MOSCOW — A Russian production company has hired a man charged with the murder of a Russian agent as a consultant on a TV...

MOSCOW- Siberian air passengers had to get out and push their plane in temperatures of minus 52 degrees Celsius after its chassis froze, Russian...

WARSAW, Poland — Officials in a Polish town have opposed a proposition to name a playground after Winnie-the-Pooh due to the bear's unclear gender...

SACRAMENTO- US mass murderer Charles Manson has been granted a marriage license, and would be allowed to wed in prison, a spokeswoman for the California...

SAN FRANCISCO- A previously unknown female Chihuahua named Frida has won her first political office, being named Mayor of San Francisco for the day as...

SACRAMENTO- One of California's largest newspapers has asked reporters and other employees to help deliver papers on Sundays, according to a memo obtained by...

GHOTKI- Dozens of armed dacoits have launched a protest in Sindh’s Ghotki district, against ‘extortion’ at the hands of police, private media reported. The dacoits, having...

MULTAN- For around four hours, Pakistani news channels gave live coverage to an eccentric event in Multan District Jail on Friday where a prisoner climbed...

INDIA - More than 200 villagers in northern India have attended an elaborate Hindu wedding ceremony for two monkeys. The wedding was organised by the...

BENI- A crowd stoned to death a young man in northeast Congo before burning and eating his corpse, witnesses said, in apparent revenge for...

SAINT-DOMINIQUE- A woman arriving from Belgium was arrested at an airport in the Dominican Republic with 55,500 euros hidden in her stomach and 54,600...

SANTIAGO- Prosecutors have charged a man in Chile with buying a baby girl over the Internet for $102, court documents showed Sunday. An indictment said...

  He might have got away with it if it hadn't been for his supermarket loyalty card. A British fraudster who pretended to be quadriplegic and...