A remote location
Friends of 19-year-old Huang Chen, a student from Changsa, Southern China have gone a little far with a practical joke.
Households in a Belgian town are being offered chickens to help clean up the local area.
Fifty pairs of hens are on offer to residents of Mouscron, who are being encouraged to feed them kitchen scraps.
Late last week a small town deep in Australia’s Northern Territory, Lajamanu, experienced a downpour of biblical proportions.
This was, however, not a torrential downpour of rain. Thousands of fish poured from the skies above the village.
A newlywed couple in Massachusetts had to spend their first night in separated prison cells after police revealed that the new bride had made an unsuccessful attempt to run over an old flame of the groom.
Marissa Ann Putignano-Keene, 22, is said to have tried to run over the woman, who was with her son at the time, in a car park near the residential area where they live.
Giant George
Guinness World Records have named Giant George from Arizona the Tallest Living Dog and the Tallest Dog Ever.
A specialist travel agency is now offering package holidays to Prague for stuffed toys.
Owners of stuffed toys will now be able to send their loved ones on luxury sight-seeing tours. Tourist hotspots such as Prague Castle and the Charles Bridge are included in all trips, with restaurants and leisure activities subject to weather and availability.
Daniel Blackman, a product developer at bizarre gifts company Thumbs Up, has created what could be one of the most original additions to the never-ending supply of household goods.
By day, the new Glow in the Dark Loo Roll looks like a standard loo roll. But by night, it transforms to produce a luminous glow through the addition of phosphors, which sustain a glow after exposure to energized particles such as light.
The world’s strongest boy has broken yet another world record, embarrassing bodybuilders and fitness fanatics from around the world.
What’s worse is that Guiliano Sproe is only 5-years-old. Dubbed as the strongest boy in the world, Guiliano broke the record for the most air press-ups, which involves pushing yourself off the floor with just your hands, and your legs and feet off the ground.
Blowing hot and cold
A bar owner in Switzerland has thought of a way around the smoking ban by cutting out holes in the wall.
Staff at an animal rescue centre in Fife were amazed when a lost cat found its way there, despite having its head stuck in a food can.
The Scottish SPCA, which runs the unit, said the female must have been scavenging and got her head stuck. Colin Seddon, manager at the centre in Middlebank, Dunfermline, said: