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Woman spends 10,000 pounds to hear her cat miaow again (06 October 03:56) |
| A pet owner in southeast Britain has spent a whopping 10,000 pounds to hear her moggy miaow again after the cat suffered a rare throat condition, the Daily Telegraph reported.
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Flash in the sky appears and disappears (25 September 02:15) |
| Astronomers have discovered a bizarre celestial object that emitted 40 flashes of light before disappearing again.
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Little sisters love to chomp on chillies (24 September 03:46) |
| They are just five and seven years old, but it's not chocolates and chips that Joshna and Shanti are after. |
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World's shortest man stops traffic in New York (19 September 08:35) |
| Taxis screeched to a halt, cops pulled out cell phone cameras and jaded New Yorkers gasped as 20-year-old He Pingping, who is the size of a 6-month-old baby, decided to take a stroll. |
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5-year-old on buying spree (15 September 10:17) |
| After finding a fortune in his dad's safe, a five-year-old went on a 133,000 dollars shopping spree. |
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Dog calls 911 (15 September 10:16) |
| A German shepherd who remembered his training and saved his owner's life by calling 911 when the man had a seizure. |
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Wife caught bedding priest (15 September 10:15) |
| An Italian husband returned home early from work to find his wife in bed with their local priest. |
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Women suffers stroke after sex (15 September 01:26) |
| Minutes after having sex with her boyfriend, a 35-year-old woman suffered a stroke, paralysing the left side of her face. But she miraculously recovered after therapy.
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Woman suffers stroke after sex (15 September 01:26) |
| Minutes after having sex with her boyfriend, a 35-year-old woman suffered a stroke, paralysing the left side of her face. But she miraculously recovered after therapy.
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Birth of twin after 3-year gap (06 September 02:41) |
| Creating medical history of sorts, an embryological twin was born after a gap of three years at a fertility clinic here.
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Viagra cure for girl's freak lung disorder (02 September 02:02) |
| Heard of a seven-year-old using Viagra? No blasphemy intended, it's just a pointer that the drug also has non-sexual, therapeutic uses.
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A cup of wine to lead to the Holy Spirit? (31 August 08:56) |
| The Birmingham Cathedral will shortly receive a proposal to open wine bars in the city to attract and retain worshippers. |
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Dog saves newborn abandoned by mother (25 August 07:10) |
| A dog protected a newborn after its teenaged mother abandoned the baby soon after giving birth in a field in rural Argentina.
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Man gets message he sent in a bottle (22 August 09:18) |
| A Scottish man has been reunited with his message in a bottle which he had thrown into the sea some 23 years ago, the Daily Telegraph has reported.
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'Rewired' brain turns engineer into artist (21 August 08:57) |
| A cerebral haemorrhage turned out to be a blessing in disguise for a British engineer, whose brain was "rewired" to turn him into an artist after the stroke.
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Dog guards owner's body for six weeks (14 August 04:50) |
| A German shepherd dog stayed by the body of its owner for six weeks after he committed suicide in remote grasslands in Colorado, the Denver Post has reported.
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Monkeys ransack police officer's office (11 August 06:02) |
| Policemen in the office of their senior superintendent collected loose sheets, torn files and valuable documents here on Monday after a group of monkeys ransacked it and damaged virtually ev... |
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Toddler walks over a mile for sweets (08 August 04:45) |
| A three-year-old toddler made headlines after sneaking off in the middle of the night to buy sweets from a supermarket - one and a half miles from his home in northwest Britain.
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Singing the name of the Lord, for 44 years (02 August 04:50) |
| It is not everyday that one hears of a temple where the name of Lord Ram is being chanted, continuously, for the last 44 years.
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Germans, Polish go to 'naked' war (31 July 06:51) |
| Decades after the Second World War, Germans and Polish are at war again -- and this time they are "naked".
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Letter sent 60 years ago lands in local mailbox (30 July 05:19) |
| A letter sent 60 years ago detailing the mood of the people after Harry S Truman was elected US president has recently turned up in the mailbox of a Lawrence resident. |
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Toddler run over by train survives in Russia (28 July 10:27) |
| An 18-month-old girl who crawled onto a rail track in Russia's East Siberian region survived between the rails as a freight train passed over her |
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Former NASA moon-walker claims alien cover-up (24 July 10:32) |
| Former NASA astronaut and moon-walker Dr Edgar Mitchell a veteran of the Apollo 14 mission has stunningly claimed aliens exist. |
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Woman jumps from tenth floor, survives fall (22 July 11:30) |
| A 23-year-old woman on Tuesday survived an alleged suicide attempt after she jumped from the tenth floor of a building in east Delhi |
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A 162-gram egg! (21 July 05:35) |
| A 162-gram egg laid by a Lohman-breed hen has drawn lot of attention from curious people even as a poultry expert said it is an unusual phenomenon. |
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At 135, is he really world's oldest person? (17 July 07:21) |
| At age 135, the world's oldest person might well be a citizen of the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
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When a vibrating mobile turned out to be a bat in a bra (09 July 04:24) |
| Bats roost anywhere that appears dark and safe, including inside a bra, a British woman has found from personal experience.
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Doctors remove whistle from boy's throat (05 July 07:25) |
| A team of doctors from the Government General Hospital here removed a whistle which was stuck in the throat of a 14-year-old boy for about two years.
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'Pregnant man' gives birth baby girl: Report (04 July 05:22) |
| A transsexual who became known as the "pregnant man" has given birth to a baby girl, US broadcaster ABC News has reported.
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Man kills father, eats heart and kidneys (02 July 11:58) |
| In a gruesome act of murder and cannibalism, an Argentine man killed his father, removed the heart and kidneys, cooked them in a pot mixing garlic and parsley and ate them. |
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70-year-old gives birth to twins (28 June 12:56) |
| A 70-year-old woman has given birth to twins here in this district of Uttar Pradesh, hospital sources said.
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Crocodile for a drinking buddy! (26 June 06:05) |
| Buffaloes, horses, frogs and even cane toads have propped up at a dusty outback highway pub in Australia's Northern Territory |
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Man who got job of deceased wife dies on first day in office (24 June 02:46) |
| In a quirk of fate, a 40-year-old man who got a government job in place of his deceased wife collapsed and died on the first day in office at Vizhinjam.
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Man who got job of deceased wife dies (24 June 02:46) |
| In a quirk of fate, a 40-year-old man who got a government job in place of his deceased wife collapsed and died on the first day in office at Vizhinjam.
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Man jailed for keeping bear at home (22 June 10:01) |
| A tribal man in Orissa has been jailed for keeping a sloth bear at his home although he pleaded that he did so simply because the animal refused to embrace the jungle.
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Over 300 varieties of mangoes on one tree! (22 June 02:13) |
| Toss the word 'mango man' in Malihabad, it would refer to Haji Kalimullah Khan.
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Lord Hanuman "appointed" chairman of college (08 June 02:15) |
| A technology college near here has an unusual chairman with literally high connections - Lord Hanuman.
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Lord Hanuman 'appointed' chairman of college (08 June 02:15) |
| A technology college near here has an unusual chairman with literally high connections - Lord Hanuman.
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Now chimpanzees hit by Facebook bug (07 June 12:56) |
| After humans, the bug of social networking online has hit chimpanzees, it appears.
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Three months later a second delivery (29 May 02:58) |
| In a rare case, a woman in a village gave birth to a girl, only three months after she delievered two pair of twins.
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Curious teenager killed in freak lift accident (21 May 07:15) |
| Shoddy maintenance of a residential building's lift system caused the death of a teenager in the southern suburb of Selaiyur here, the police said.
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Woman cop declared "dead", found alive (19 May 02:31) |
| A woman constable, declared dead two years ago, has been found alive in a migrant camp on the outskirts of Jammu -- living with her Hindu paramour. |
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A golden cow in war-hit Jaffna (13 May 02:42) |
| Remember the famous story about the goose that laid the golden eggs? Well, in Sri Lanka's Jaffna peninsula, it was a cow that yielded a valuable gold chain!
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Kids, mom live with corpse for weeks (10 May 01:51) |
| Two children and their mother lived for about two months with the decaying body of a 90-year-old woman in their home's only bathroom.
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Denied food, man hacks wife to death (09 May 09:26) |
| A woman was hacked to death by her husband after she refused to serve him food as she was feeding her baby, police said.
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Volvo puts foot in it (08 May 11:00) |
| A German court has ruled car maker Volvo has to pay compensation to a man who claimed his feet were too big to use the accelerator on his new car. |
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Dad's 71 day trek to meet son (08 May 11:00) |
| A 72-year-old Chinese man walked more than 600 miles to visit his son in prison. The man walked for 71 days |
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Jail threat for naughty kids (08 May 10:59) |
| A Romanian kindergarten teacher is in trouble after she allegedly asked a policeman to threaten her pupils with jail for being naughty. |
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Mother's topless protest (08 May 10:58) |
| The niece of the head of Spain's Catholic Church has stripped off in a soft porn magazine in protest at her uncle. |
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Biggest dinosaur in the Trendiest town (30 April 07:48) |
| Where else would the world's biggest dinosaur live, but in the world's trendiest town?
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