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31st July
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It's quite the man cave
It took five long months for a Czech woman to discover the reason for her pain: Doctors had left a foot-long medical tool inside her abdomen
Revellers aboard one of the Viradouro samba school's floats participate in the first night of the Carnival parade in Rio de Janeiro's Sambadrome February 14, 2010. REUTERS/Ricardo MoraesReuters - In Rio Carnivals past, Thiago Rodrigues could relieve himself of the pressure built up by a dozen or so beers without looking over his shoulder.
Reuters - If you spent Valentine's Day looking for love online then you are among the one in three Internet users who regard the web as a good place to find a relationship, according to a new study.
Reuters - A 73-year-old Florida man who was arrested for robbing three banks -- unarmed and taking $600 in each heist -- said he needed the money to pay his home mortgage, police said on Friday.
Reuters - Chile's mint has sacked its managing director after he sent into circulation thousands of coins bearing an incorrect spelling of the country's name.
It's quite the man cave.
It's quite the man cave. Jimmy Grey says he's been out of work for almost a year and needed a project to stay busy. So with the heavy snowfall this winter, the 25-year-old laborer got to work on an extreme igloo in his family's yard in Aquilla (ah-KWIL'-uh),... Email this Article Add to del.icio.us Add to digg Add to Facebook
A magician is recovering in hospital from severe frostbite - after spending more than 64 hours as a human ice cube to break a world endurance record.
Theme park Alton Towers has been forced to ban a daredevil squirrel from one of its rides, on the grounds that it posed a health and safety risk.
A police officer's badge may have saved his life when it stopped a bullet during an exchange of gunfire in North Las Vegas
A Web designer is hawking square inches of an empty lot in Detroit for a dollar each to show what can be done with vacant spaces
Nothing says "I love you" like a half-mile wide heart made out of manure.
State officials in Maine say witnesses who reported seeing a drowning snowmobiler on a lake were probably looking at an otter enjoying a snack
A buck is all it will take to buy a bungalow in one Detroit suburb.
A three-legged pitbull mix that played in a game of doggie baseball has won "Best in Show" at a talent competition held by one of New York City's largest animal shelters
A three-legged pitbull mix that played in a game of doggie baseball has won "Best in Show" at a talent competition held by one of New York City's largest animal shelters.
State officials in Maine say witnesses who reported seeing a drowning snowmobiler on a lake were probably looking at an otter enjoying a snack.
A Web designer is hawking square inches of an empty lot in Detroit for a dollar each to show what can be done with vacant spaces.
A police officer's badge may have saved his life when it stopped a bullet during an exchange of gunfire in North Las Vegas.


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