They grew up poor in the shadows of a maximum security prison and a pristine South Pacific beach -- perhaps it's no surprising the Abberton brothers became professional surf champions as well as founding members of a violent gang.
A sperm bank specialising in donors who are celebrity lookalikes is to open in New York City, it has been reported.
Nearly 500 people in Leicester have tried to break the official world record for the largest number of dancers to Michael Jackson's 'Thriller'.
A bikini-clad Polish woman has said that she was spied on by a yeti while paddling in a river.
Joel Hicks has been crowned the winner of the World Gravy Wrestling Championships at the Rose 'n' Bowl pub in Stacksteads, Lancashire.
Deep-sea commercial diver Michael Ganas spent four years writing a novel that combined his love of engineering and the sea, but ended up publishing it himself because he found it hard to get anyone else interested.
Pittsburgh bartender Angelo Cammarata served his first beer a few minutes after Prohibition was lifted in 1933. Soon he will serve his last.
One in four young U.S. workers does not earn enough money to pay their bills, more than twice as many as a decade ago, said a survey released on Tuesday.
Most U.S. workers do not want to become managers and they cite increased stress as the most common reason, according to a survey released on Tuesday.
Britain's recession has prompted a wave of self-help trends ranging from bee-keeping to growing vegetables -- and one of the fastest growing is DIY butchery.
British women are happy nowadays to wear mini-skirts up until the age of 40, according to research by Debenhams department store.
The South Pacific island of Samoa will be the first nation in decades to switch traffic flow from one side of the road to another, though drivers predict chaos next week when they make the move.
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