A man set fire to himself and grabbed his wife after a fight in a bid to end their lives at their home in Hohhot, the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, last week.
An 80-year-old man from Nanhai district of Foshan, Guangdong province, has authored and published three booklets in the past four years to help people learn the English language.
An elderly man in Australia was rescued by emergency workers after he sat on a toilet seat covered with superglue.
A Nottingham man believes that he may have spotted the Loch Ness Monster on Google Earth, it has been reported.
A goldfish in North Yorkshire survived for seven hours behind a fluff-covered dresser after it leapt out of its tank, it has been claimed.
A Virginia man wore a sign admitting his infidelity in public at the request of his wife, it has emerged.
A Burnley resident is trying to determine whether he owns the world's oldest cat, it has emerged.
A Paris Hilton lookalike is to appear as the socialite in a new porn film, it has emerged.
A French climber dubbed "Spiderman" for his ropeless ascents of some of the world's highest skyscrapers finally scaled on Monday a Malaysian tower he had tried to ascend twice before, and was then arrested.
Workers clean a crocodile statue on display outside the Davao Crocodile Park in Manila August 31, 2009. At least 150 live crocodiles reside in the crocodile park.
Josef Stalin was in the dock on Monday when a Russian court held a preliminary hearing in a libel case brought by his grandson over a newspaper story which said the tyrant had ordered the killings of Soviet citizens.
Germans, who sometimes see themselves as guardians of the environment, are hoarding energy-guzzling incandescent light bulbs ahead of a looming European Union-wide ban, the GfK market research agency said.