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31st July
Last updated 17 minutes ago
Russia unveils its new stealth fighter, meant to rival the radar-evading US F-22, in a test flight over the country's far east.
A struggling football team resorts to asking a priest to bless their pitch in a bid to stop their run of bad luck.
A customer eats raw oysters at the Fish Warf in Washington August 15, 2008. REUTERS/Molly RileyReuters - Elizabethan theater-goers chomped on an exotic array of foods while enjoying the latest plays of the day, new evidence found at the sites of Shakespearean playhouses in London suggests.
Reuters - A Polish priest has installed an electronic reader in his church for schoolchildren to leave their fingerprints in order to monitor their attendance at mass, the Gazeta Wyborcza daily said on Friday.
New York City's transit agency is investigating a video posted online that shows a man kissing and snuggling a live chicken aboard a subway.
Police in Colorado say they arrested a 28-year-old man accused of passing out in a McDonald's play area and telling his two children to bite the officers who were trying to arrest him.
A group of Australian mates on an annual fishing holiday was not going to let anything come between them and their prize catch -- not even a marauding crocodile.
A group of Australian mates on an annual fishing holiday was not going to let anything come between them and their prize catch -- not even a marauding crocodile
Police say a 28-year-old man is accused of passing out in a McDonald's play area and telling his two children to bite the officers who were trying to arrest him
Birmingham motorists are given instructions by a ticket dispenser operating in German.
A hen-pecked man kissed and cuddled a chicken on the floor of a New York subway carriage, ruffling the feathers of his fellow passengers.
LONDON: AN old vase dumped in a spare room by an elderly couple has turned out to be worth up to hal...
You may think it's blue-sky thinking gone wrong, but some space-lovers believe a recent spate of UFO-shaped clouds point to the existence of alien life.
?He finds golf balls like truffles,? says owner of black Labrador Oscar.
One of the world's rarest half bottles of whisky is expected to fetch up to £6,000 when it is auctioned in Glasgow next week.
A group of Australian mates on an annual fishing holiday was not going to let anything come between them and their prize catch -- not even a marauding crocodile.
Actress Anne Hathaway collects her Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year award in Massachusetts.
The keys were in the ignition of a pickup truck that hit a freight train at a Washington state crossing, but there's no sign of the driver or any trauma. Snohomish County sheriff's Lt. John Flood told The Daily Herald he hasn't seen a case like it in 20 years.
Argentina's president thinks eating pig meat is really sexy. Many people in this beef-loving nation reacted with surprise Thursday after Cristina Fernandez promoted pork in a speech during which she not only said pork is better than Viagra, but suggested she's personally proven it.
A man faces fraud charges after reportedly pretending to be his twin brother after he was pulled over for driving under the influence. The Highlands County Sheriff's Office reported that 43-year-old man was pulled over Jan. 20 and charged with DUI. But deputies said the man initially identified himself as his brother and signed that name on his citation and ...


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