A man was forced to sell his family car after his son racked up a £1,300 iTunes bill while playing a game. Ashaz Mutasa, seven, purchased a number of expensive top-ups while he was playing the mobile game 'Dragons: Rise of Berk' and...
A life-size statue of Elon Musk has been mocked after its unveiling. A bronze statue of the entrepreneur was placed in New York City by an investment website to mark his 50th birthday on Monday (28.06.21) but was savaged by unimpressed Twitter...
The first-ever joint human and dog counselling service has been launched. Pet food brand Naturo has introduced 'hound-selling' classes that will combine both canine and human therapy practices after research found that a third of pet owners...
Songs that get stuck in your head help boost memory and could be used to treat dementia. New research has found that melodic and repetitive 'earworms' such as Kylie Minogue's 'Can't Get You Out Of My Head' and Queen's...
An octopus has produced a work of art at an aquarium in Florida. The Florida Aquarium shared video footage of Farallon the octopus creating a painting on a plastic-wrapped canvas as she is assisted by a human keeper. Biologists at the aquarium have...
A woman who is fed up with men says she has fallen in love with an alien. Abbie Bela has claimed that she was recently abducted by extraterrestrials who took her from her flat in London and fell head over heels for one of her captors. Bela told The...
Unhappy marriages can be as deadly for men as smoking, a new study suggests. Researchers from Tel Aviv University in Israel have found that husbands who were dissatisfied with their marriage were nearly twice as likely to have a fatal stroke as...
A couple who spent 123 days handcuffed to each other split up as soon as they were freed. Viktoria 'Vika' Pustovitova and Alexander 'Sasha' Kudlay linked themselves together back on Valentine's Day to test their bond but it...
Towns in Australia have been left blanketed in cobwebs after spiders fled from flooding. Images and videos captured in the Gippsland region of Victoria show fields and homes in the area covered in spider silk. The webs result from a phenomenon...
A mind-reading helmet will enable humans to connect their minds to artificial intelligence by 2030, a biohacker has claimed. Bryan Johnson has developed the helmet that he hopes can provide an exact picture of what's happening inside the human...
A woman has gained a large online following after sharing reviews of toilets. Rachel Dixon is known as 'Mrs. Loo Review' to her friends and has shared her thoughts on 119 toilets in restaurants, pubs, entertainment venues and shops across...
A woman that had been denied a liver transplant was found to have a rare condition where the body brewed alcohol. The 61-year-old woman, who has not been named, went to hospital in Pennsylvania in a bid to get on the waiting list for a transplant...
The world's most vile foods are exhibited at a museum in Germany. The Museum of Disgusting Food in Berlin gives visitors the chance to sample cheese encrusted with living maggots and a bitter liqueur sourced from the anal glands of a beaver....
A burglar broke into the home of a married couple before treating himself to a shower. Steve Baker explained how his wife woke him up last week when she heard the sound of running water at their home in California. Baker armed himself with a gun...
The partner of a woman who claims to have given birth to a record-breaking 10 babies does not believe they exist. Gosiame Sithole says she gave birth to decuplets in South Africa last week but her partner Tebogo Tsotetsi has explained that he has...
A mother was arrested after pretending to be her teenage daughter and attending her school for a day. Casey Garcia posed as her 13-year-old daughter Julie by dying her hair and dressing up like a teenager in a bid to prove that the security at the...
A company is selling jeans that make the wearer look as if they have wet themselves. US firm Wet Pants Denim has launched a range of denim that seems as if somebody has had an unfortunate accident with a watery stain at the front. The company said...
A mother has claimed to have given birth to a record-breaking 10 babies. Gosiame Sithole explained how she was left in shock after delivering decuples in Pretoria, South Africa, last week. It would be the world's largest-ever live birth if it...
Scientists have developed an 'electric nose' that is capable of sniffing out coronavirus. The technology sees participants breathing into a 3D-printed plastic device for 80 seconds in which volatile organic compounds are analysed for COVID-...
A bride died of a heart attack at her wedding in India - so the groom married his sister instead. The woman - who was named only as Surbhi - collapsed after suffering a heart attack while exchanging vows with husband-to-be Mangesh Kumar at the...
A comedian has travelled the world looking for places with rude names. Nicholas Hale has spent 26 years posing for images in locations across the globe such as Yorkey's Knob in Australia and Shitterton in Dorset. Some of the British locations...
Short-sighted people sleep worse than those with normal vision, a study has found. Researchers from Flinders University in Australia revealed that people with myopia get poorer quality sleep than those with normal vision due to delayed circadian...
A Bob Dylan record has been returned to a library in Ohio 48 years overdue. Sara Phillips, manager of the University Heights Library, explained how a package containing Dylan's 'Self Portrait album arrived in the post recently. She said:...
A man discovered a woman secretly living in his cupboard after setting up a camera. Joe Cummings took action after noticing that somebody had been stealing his food and urinating in his kitchen sink and found that he had an unwelcome visitor in his...
A Canadian politician who appeared naked during a virtual parliamentary meeting has been left red-faced once again. William Amos made headlines earlier this year when he appeared in the buff on an internal feed for a House of Commons meeting and...
