Weird

A Canberra primary school banned a teacher after she told a class of six year olds that Santa Claus does not exist

One man was killed and another wounded when a brawl broke out in a Philippines karaoke bar over the quality of singing

The incredibly shallow Miranda Devine foolishly tries to link anti-globalists and religious zealots — possibly because the 11 September attack has delayed delivery of that Gucci handbag she’s been lusting after

A man who use a wire coat hanger to fish a cocaine-filled balloon from his throat wound up in surgery after accidentally hooking himself. While a Des Moines convenience clerk on the phone with police was describing the man who just robbed him when the incredibly stupid suspect returned to the store and corrected the description

Katherine Knight, who murdered her de facto — and, in a nightmarish ritual of death, skinned him, cut off his head and cooked parts of his body — received no mercy for her horrifying crime. The 46-year-old former abattoir worker now has the dubious distinction of becoming the first woman in Australia to be jailed for the term of her natural life

Former chief of detectives in the Chicago Police Department, William A Hanhardt, pleaded guilty today in Federal District Court to charges of running a sophisticated jewel-theft ring across several states for more than a decade. How did the detective find the people to rob? He used law enforcement computers and databases to get information about travelling jewellery sales people

A toddler brought a bag of pot to his day care centre, leading to the arrest of his mother and her boyfriend. Police said that the toddler showed up with a bag of marijuana he got off the kitchen table. After being alerted by a day-care teacher, police got a warrant to search the couple’s apartment yesterday afternoon

A Japanese gangster fired his gun and injured two policemen on Friday after they caught him trying to peek up a woman’s skirt

Christian Silbereis won first prize at his high school Halloween costume contest. But school officials found his outfit a little too shocking and suspended him. He went as female genitalia

When trouble walked inside a Capitol Hill bank Friday, John Spates didn’t think. He acted. He chased down a robbery suspect and, with dozens of people watching, held onto the woman until police officers arrived

Two Ohio men who threw beer bottles at a woman in a car paid the price on Friday — they had to parade through the centre of their hometown dressed as women

A Pennsylvania man who wanted to promote co-operation between Iraq and the United States in the wake of the 11 September attacks apparently has a new pen pal in Saddam Hussein

Treva Throneberry quit her Panhandle high school in 1985, halfway through her junior year, leaving classmates wondering where she went. Police in Vancouver, Washington, believe they have the answer. They say she has been hitchhiking around the country for much her adult life, masquerading as a homeless, abused teenager

A homeless woman is suing Santa Fe Southern Railway over a 1998 accident in which a train in Santa Fe severed her feet as she was lying on the tracks at a crossing

Hundreds of people called 911 after seeing six parachutists who were trailing plumes of red smoke land at Austin High School. People thought we were being invaded, said Ed Harris Jr, director of emergency communications for the Austin Police Department

McDonald’s employees found a dead deer under a sink in the men’s bathroom, and police were trying to figure out how it got there. I am taking this matter very seriously, owner Larry Smith said Tuesday. The safety of my restaurant, employees and customers are among my highest priorities and will never be compromised