An Arizona school principal who penned a sarcastic letter about students has been suspended after it was mistakenly sent home to parents.

Reuters - When doctors and staff realized that a cat living in a U.S. nursing home could sense when someone was going to die, the feline, Oscar, was portrayed as a furry grim reaper or four-legged angel of death.

Reuters - The Internet potentially will lose one of its main sources of bestiality videos under a ban approved Tuesday by the upper house of the Dutch parliament.

Reuters - Would the Black Eyed Peas persuade you to shop at Target or Eric Clapton lure you to switch to T-Mobile?

It was a Zinger of a theft in Tennessee

It was a Zinger of a theft in Tennessee. It also included cupcakes, Twinkies and other snack cakes from the Merita Bread Company.

A Massachusetts house struck by a lumber truck whose driver said he passed out after choking on chili will be demolished.

A teacher and athlete from Peterborough is setting out in May to swim the Atlantic as the first stage of a global triathlon.

An Indonesian man is given compensation after a cigarette he was smoking exploded, taking out six teeth.

A three-year-old snake from Taiwan has become hooked on nicotine, thanks to his owner's 20-a-day habit.

A cat called Oscar is an omen of impending doom who has predicted the deaths of dozens of patients at a nursing home, according to a doctor who works there.

Japanese boffins, always hungry for a new invention, have invented a smoke alarm for deaf people that smells of wasabi.

A benefit cheat must wish he?d checked his drawers more carefully when moving house ? he left £10,000 in two envelopes stuffed in a kitchen unit.

A woman opening a box of eggs was left shell-shocked after beating odds of more than a trillion to one by cracking open six double-yolk eggs from the same box.

The Royal Mail issues a set of stamps celebrating 100 years of Girlguiding in the UK.