Church airbrushes out leader's $30K watch Borat anthem played by mistake at medals ceremonyYou've won billions! Ah ... sorry, no you haven't Thatcher snatched Ronald Raegan's doodle 30 years ago Penis Tattoo Blamed for Permanent Erection Fake doctor's recipe for better buttocks: Cement, tyre-filler and glue US airport agent in trouble over vibrator jokeHey, that's not Cookie Monster: Hackers turn Sesame Street YouTube page into porn site Drunk moose found stuck in tree Been Looking at Porn? Be warned: It'll show up on FacebookPlane crashes into Ferris WheelBeauty bath eel swims up man's penisWoman's breast implant popped during game of paintballBull sperm spillage forces police to shut Tennessee highwayBee-bearder's swarm fails to break record Lady Gaga's gay Gillard gaffeBritish man removes wart with shotgun, also loses finger'Beautiful people' website hit by Shrek virus that allowed ugly applicants to sign upWoman sues ex-fiance after falling while peeing from his veranda Angry senior citizen locks bell ringers in church tower
Spooked horse swims 3km offshore The goose who wears sandals Italian Cat Becomes Third Richest Animal In The World After Owner Leaves It £10m In WillNY cops scolded for mocking pigeon called Fred at WTC Ground Zero'Gay' penguins to be torn apartHow'd you like your koala - braised or stewed? Mar-soup-ial madness African Animals Getting Drunk From Ripe Marula FruitA two-faced cat is celebrating his 12th birthday, breaking a Guinness record in the processPanda babies have the cute market corneredMeet Gary, the Chocoholic fish addicted to Kit KatsOwl leaves imprint on Kendal woman's window5.5m saltwater croc Brutus photographed on Adelaide River Jumping Croc CruisesNYC airport invaded by turtles, delaying flights (AP)'Adolescent' fruit flies need extra sleep to cope with their active social lives Naked Russian diver Natalia Avseenko tries to tame rare beluga whalesSharks with frickin' laser beams? Oh yes Scientists genetically engineer female goats in male bodies to create 'human' breast milk Meet Betty, the spineless hedgehogGiant tortoise bachelors Al and Tex find romance at long last 
Scotland's Dull And America's Boring Join UpBorat anthem played by mistake at medals ceremonyThatcher snatched Ronald Raegan's doodle 30 years ago New Jersey capital city running out of toilet paper'Blue Balls Rain' Mystery Solved 'I had flag up my bum for Queen' Sheep shearing pitched as Olympic sport Man used skeleton to drive in carpool laneAd banned because judge says kitty litter sniffing 'highly implausible' Missing wedding ring found on carrot 16 years after it was lost US airport agent in trouble over vibrator jokeScrabble scandal: Strip down and find the 'G' 'Gumby' robber turns himself in'Lost' star farted on plane passenger's faceMan faces court after Police catch him drunk driving a motorised Beer Cooler (aka Esky)
A Chinese company digging an unexploited copper mine in Afghanistan has unearthed ancient statues of Buddha in a sprawling 2,600-year-old Buddhist monastery. Archaeologists are rushing to salvage what they can from a major seventh century B.C. religious site along the famed Silk Road connecting Asia and the Middle East. The ruins, including the monastery...
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A Chinese vase discovered during a routine house clearance in a London suburb sold for 43 million pounds ($69 million) Thursday, 40 times its estimate and an auction record for any work of art from Asia, the auctioneer that sold it said. “It’s a world record for a piece of Asian art,” Helen Porter...
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By Arthur Martin He claims his ‘superhuman’ genes have kept him healthy despite a lifetime of rock ’n’ roll excess. And now it seems science may back up Ozzy Osbourne’s theory that he has a particularly hardy family tree. Researchers studying his DNA have found that the singer is the descendant of a Neanderthal...
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By Peter GresteBBC East Africa correspondent, Mambrui, Kenya Click to play Click to play Professor Qin Dashu shows off some of his finds It is not much to look at – a small pitted brass coin with a square hole in the centre – but this relatively innocuous piece of metal is revolutionising our...
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A large number of British children believe Buzz Lightyear was the first person to walk on the moon and that Darth Vader’s Deathstar from Star Wars is the furthest planet from Earth. A survey of 2000 children aged 6-12 years in the UK revealed most youngsters have trouble distinguishing between fact and fiction, and...
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Location: The Dinka are a group of several closely related peoples living in southern Sudan along both sides of the White Nile. They cover a wide area along the many streams and small rivers, concentrated in the Upper Nile province in southeast Sudan and across into southwest Ethiopia. Identity: The Dinka are one of...
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Scholars have rediscovered how to speak the language of the King Of Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar The ancient language of Babylonian can be heard for the first time in almost 2,000 years after Cambridge University scholars posted readings and poems online. Babylonian, one of the chief languages of Ancient Mesopotamia, dates back as far as the...
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By DAVID DERBYSHIRE Foreign visitor: A boy, aged 14 or 15, who travelled to Britain from Spain, Italy, Greece or France, was found buried at Stonehenge A million visitors from around the world flock to Stonehenge every year. But the monument’s status as an international attraction is nothing new. Yesterday scientists said the stones...
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At first sight, the bold strokes and colours are strikingly reminiscent of one of Vincent van Gogh’s famous sunflower paintings. And the similarity is no accident – for this early masterpiece, dating back almost 50 million years, is believed to be the ancestor of modern daisies and sunflowers. Scientists found the beautifully preserved fossil...
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Builders working on a tiny Saxon church have unearthed Britain’s oldest working window, dating back to pre-1066. The wooden-framed window was built 1,000 years ago but lay buried in the wall of St Andrew’s Church for about 150 years after it was covered up by Victorian renovations. It has now been revealed after shocked...
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Spooked horse swims 3km offshore Man buys $2m Andy Warhol sketch for $5Speech-jamming gun silences people mid-sentence Acid attack victim, Katie Piper, can see again Missing wedding ring found on carrot 16 years after it was lost Bracelet reveals amazing craftsman's skill from 7500BC 'World's oldest' yoga teacher a spritely 91-years-old Indiana Jones missed the REAL Mayan skull - it's not crystal, and it's shaped like a monkey Minhaj Gedi Farah becomes face of hope from the famine Internet 'weighs the same as a strawberry' Real 'Slumdog Millionaire' wins big on quiz14 year old boy lives playboy lifestyle after scamming banks Woman Hasn’t Used Money in 15 YearsCouple married for 72 years died an hour apartTerminally ill cabbie chose to have his body mummified for Channel 4 documentarySpanish duchess, 85, marries 60-year-old toyboyAt 102, therapist is too busy to stop working - latimes.comA two-faced cat is celebrating his 12th birthday, breaking a Guinness record in the process
'World's oldest' graphic art discovered The $1b new town where nobody's homeHundreds of thousands may lose Internet in July Injecting our guts with fecal bacteria from ancient mummies could cure obesity Employers asking interviewees for facebook passwords Homeless people turned into WiFi hotspotsThat is one ugly computer - but it's only $35 Speech-jamming gun silences people mid-sentence Ageing study looks at fasting to live longer Acid attack victim, Katie Piper, can see again Hackers listen in on FBI's anti-hacker call 'Blue Balls Rain' Mystery Solved You've been warned: Time's up on Facebook gaffesCat has total knee replacement Death of the point-and-shoot? Bracelet reveals amazing craftsman's skill from 7500BC Fake doctor's recipe for better buttocks: Cement, tyre-filler and glue Indiana Jones missed the REAL Mayan skull - it's not crystal, and it's shaped like a monkey 
SES worker saves crash victim from morgue'Dead' crash victim abandoned by ambulance crew found alive by SES volunteersWheelchair-bound meth addict jailed for 10 years after sexual assault on chihuahua Austrian man saws off own foot to avoid work Pervert who sold semen-soiled yoghurt samples gets his comeuppance Adulterer may be hanged instead of stoned Baby cut from pregnant mum: woman gets life Judge bans woman from having sex, says its in her best interest Human Barbie gets daughter Poppy, 7, liposuction voucher for Christmas Gameshow hosts eat each other's flesh on TVWoman used ring to escape from graveMelbourne hospital aborts wrong twinRussian 'body snatcher' kept 26 female corpses in tiny flat Parents of Adolf Hitler, Aryan Nation clearedWesley Warren Jr needs $US1 million surgery to correct his 45kg scrotum Missing tourist 'feared eaten by cannibals'Three Zimbabwean women charged over sex attacks Boy caught driving armed and towing dead donkey 
