Quirky World

Man rides Ferris wheel for two days, breaking world record

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60 hurt after car drives into parade

19 May

DAMASCUS (Virgina) — An elderly driver plowed into dozens of hikers marching in a parade yesterday (May 19) in a small Virginia mountain town and investigators were looking into...

Google Maps helps abducted Chinese man find home

18 May

BEIJING - Google Maps has helped a Chinese man to locate his family, 23 years after he was abducted while walking to school.

Aussie politician sorry he ‘liked’ exposed teen photo

17 May

SYDNEY — An Australian politician says he has learned a valuable lesson in social networking after he “liked” a Facebook photo without realizing that it showed a teenage...

Mum chases down child abductor, man arrested

17 May

ALBUQUERQUE (New Mexico) — A mother whose 4-year-old was being abducted chased the suspect down and crashed her vehicle into his car, triggering a manhunt and the arrest of the...

Artist’s secret snaps draw neighbours’ ire

17 May

NEW YORK — In one photo, a woman is on all fours, presumably picking something up, her posterior pressed against a glass window. Another photo shows a couple in bathrobes, their...

Protestors picket Barbie house in Berlin

Topless picketers disrupt Barbie house opening in Berlin

17 May

BERLIN — Women’s rights protesters disrupted the opening of a giant pink doll’s house in Berlin yesterday (May 16), saying the Barbie “Dreamhouse Experience” objectified women.

Man convicted of murder based on victim’s blinks

17 May

CINCINNATI — An Ohio man was found guilty yesterday (May 16) of fatally shooting a man who the authorities say identified his assailant by blinking his eyes while paralysed and...

LA worst US city for dog attacks on mailmen

17 May

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles has earned the dubious distinction for the second year in a row as the United States city with the most dog attacks on mail carriers, the US Postal...