Pet albino rat 'delays sentencing'
2009-11-17 13:59:35
A man has temporarily escaped sentencing after taking his pet rat to an appointment with his probation service.
London skyline recreated in fruit 'n' veg
2009-11-17 13:59:04
An edible model of London's skyline has been recreated using fruit and vegetables.
Woman 'lies about cancer for boob job'
2009-11-17 13:58:41
A man has filed for an annulment after his wife reportedly lied to him about having cancer in order to get money for a boob job.
Golf ball diver arrested for theft
2009-11-17 13:57:49
A man who dived into water hazards at a local golf course to find lost balls has been arrested for theft.
Green canine sniffs out trash for worthy cause
2009-11-17 13:15:44
A 5-year-old dog has developed a habit of picking up used plastic bottles around its master's residential district in Tianjin municipality.
Cannibals nabbed selling corpse to kebab house
2009-11-17 09:12:53
Russian police have arrested three homeless people suspected of eating a 25-year-old man they had butchered and selling other bits of the corpse to a local kebab house.
Women disappointed by Gaddafi "party"
2009-11-17 09:12:41
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, in Rome for a U.N. food summit, spent several hours in the company of 200 Italian women recruited by an agency and tried to convert them to Islam, Italian media reported on Monday.
Make toilets cool to fix sanitation woes, expert says
2009-11-16 17:04:32
Jack Sim, founder of the World Toilet Organization, has a theory about why governments and people are so reluctant to talk about hygiene: it isn't cool.
Gardeners urge men to pee outside
2009-11-16 11:44:22
Gardeners at a National Trust property have asked their male staff to pee outside.
Blumenthal 'to make music from dead pig'
2009-11-16 11:30:51
Heston Blumenthal is reportedly planning to help musician Matthew Herbert make a woodwind instrument out of the bones of a dead pig for his next album.
Man blames pelican for car accident
2009-11-16 11:30:30
A Texan man has blamed a bird for making him drive his million-dollar sports car into a pond.
Fla. man arrested for calling 911, asking for sex
2009-11-16 10:12:51
Florida police say a man arrested for repeatedly calling 911 looking for sex claimed it was the only number he could dial after running out of cell phone minutes.