An Italian man has killed his 72-year-old wife after she made him a bad cup of coffee
David Dunn of Cleveland has become such a powerful warrior in the Internet fantasy game DragonRealms that others would pay thousands of dollars to assume his character, Bloodwrath. But shortly after the 11 September terrorist attacks, a real-world impostor tried to kill him off and steal his online identity. Except, they didn’t
The hijackers who carried out the 11 September attacks on the World Trade Centre and Pentagon expressed confusion and surprise Monday to find themselves in the lowest plane of Na’ar, Islam’s Hell
A woman has stunned the medical world by conceiving triplets while already 10 weeks pregnant. She is due to give birth to the boy later this month and deliver the other three babies early in the New Year
The German city of Cologne has set up drive-in brothels in a bid to move the red light district away from near its landmark cathedral
Imagine getting shot by your best friend. But the triggerman in one case was a dog. Authorities in Douglas County, Washington, said that goose hunter Michael Boyle was shot in the leg when a dog stepped on the trigger of a 12-gauge shotgun
Evil Bert, meet Evil Osama. Right now, the two appear to be inseparable — at least on ubiquitous posters carried by pro-Taliban demonstrators
An Albuquerque policeman and his pilot face disciplinary measures after using a police helicopter this week to swoop in for a midnight snack of doughnuts
An investigation by Calgary cops is underway into alleged death threats made from the mobile phone belonging to the mother of leading mayoral candidate Dave Bronconnier
A Melbourne man who patented the wheel has been awarded an Ig Nobel Prize by Harvard University. Freelance patent attorney, John Keogh, patented the circular transportation facilitation device
last June to highlight problems with Australia’s new Innovation Patent system. He shares the prize with the Australian patent office, IP Australia, which granted him innovation patent #2001100012
A man mistook his younger brother for an elk and shot him dead at the start of the elk hunting season in Finland
A group of elderly Tasmanian women have bared all in a nude calendar to raise money for curtains for their local community centre. The women, from South Arm on Australia’s southern island state of Tasmania, said the hall needed sprucing up so they decided to launch a Bare to be Different calendar to raise funds
Burglars with a taste for the high life quaffed vintage champagne and sampled fine cheeses during a bizarre break-in in the southern Irish city of Cork
Greater Trenton’s nursing homes say there’s no way that prostitutes or pornography would ever be brought in to ease the sexual tensions of elderly men as practised in Denmark
A man was sentenced to listen to four hours of polka king Frankie Yankovic’s greatest hits for driving through the city with his windows rolled down and his truck’s stereo blaring
Just as every Elvis fan longs to visit Graceland, Spam fans world-wide now have their own pilgrimage to make. On 15 September, Spam will have its very own museum, dedicated to the quirky joys and unprecedented excitement inspired by Spam
A giant Mr Potato Head statue given by Pawtucket in Rhode Island to its twin town, Belper, in central England had to be removed because local people said they didn’t like it
As he awaits execution in Ohio, John W Byrd Jr is insisting on the electric chair rather than lethal injection as the more graphic way to demonstrate the cruelty of capital punishment in the face of his self-proclaimed innocence
Four inmates made a spectacular escape from a Swiss prison overnight by tying a rope from their cell to a tree beyond the jail’s perimeter fence, aided by a computer mouse
The weak will never inherit the Earth, but they just might blow it up on the way out. As hundreds of thousands of Americans find themselves downsized, right-sized, laid off and plain old fired during this latest economic meltdown, some of them are getting even
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