Margaret Thatcher's death sparked confusion on Twitter with fans of Cher believing it was the singer who had...
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Dog lovers paid out hundreds of pounds for fashionable 'toy poodles' - only to discover they were fluffed-up...
A Swiss teenager arrested after a high speed chase told police she had been "desperate to get home to use the...
A South African man has flown from Robben Island to Cape Town - over a shark-infested ocean - using only...
A fish native to Japan crossed the Pacific to the US in a small boat after the 2011 tsumani.
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A blind pensioner doesn't let his handicap hold him back with his twice weekly hobby - water skiing.
An Australian fisherman risked his life by riding a log - naked - down a flooded crocodile infested river to...
A hapless mechanic is facing a £500,000 bill after pranging a customer's prized classic Mercedes sports car...
An art gallery has infuriated animal lovers in Switzerland - by hanging a dead horse from the ceiling.
A Cumbrian hill has been declared a mountain after amateur surveyors found it was three quarters of an inch...
A one minute video of a dog performing a series of 20 unbelievable stunts is becoming an online smash.
A Tennessee woman was arrested by police - after she tricked her sister into thinking she had killed her...
Children from a remote village in China face a dangerous journey home from school - up a 230ft cliff on...
A Conservative MP was left embarrassed after inadvertently tweeting a link to a porn website.
A Russian soldier is facing a court martial after he crashed his armoured fighting vehicle into a lamp-post...
A reworked Billy Joel song which reminisces about popular culture and events in the 1970s and 1980s is going...
A new map describes London's boroughs by the first coherent result in Google's auto-complete function.
Scientists in California have successfully trained a sea lion to move in time to Earth Wind & Fire's Boogie...
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