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Days after thousands of dead birds dropped from the sky in the American state of Arkansas a similar event has taken lace in Sweden. Hundreds of dead jackdaws were found in a small area in the town of Falkoeping, but no reason has yet been given, just as has been the case in America after [...]

Thousands of dead blackbirds fell from the sky over Arkansas in America shortly before New Years Eve to leave scientists scratching their heads and residents fearing a biblical plague. Approximately half an hour before midnight on New Year’s Eve the birds began falling from the sky in the town of Beebe, while none were found [...]

A woman from Brazil was declared dead only to wake up hours later inside a coffin in a funeral home. The 88-year-old died (again) two days later and police from Minas Gerais state are investigating if poor medical care and the misdiagnosis contributed to her death. A statement explained that doctors thought Maria das Dores [...]

Finding homes for a litter of two of three dogs is hard work, so the owners of a dog in Germany must has been having kittens (err puppies) after she gave birth to 17 puppies. The Rhodesian Ridgeback named Etana gave birth to dogs and eight bitches naturally and all survived. Check out the video [...]

The World’s leading e-commerce website, Amazon.com, is selling a book that has been described as ‘the pedophiles handbook’. The book by Phillip R Greaves is called ‘The Pedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure‘ and on the face of it is wrong on so many levels and should not be sold anywhere, especially not on a [...]

The Penatagon has been left stumped by photos that appear to show a missile stream above California. However, experts have explained that is just an airplane contrail that has been distorted in an optical illusion. It hasn’t stopped conspiracy stories flooding the internet that a new cover-up has been staged to keep the true story [...]

In what is quite possibly the weirdest crime story of 2010 a robber returned home to find his victim there reporting the crime. The robber targeted the pizza takeaway driver and stole his cash, mobile phone and also the pizzas he was delivering to an address in Glasgow, Scotland. However, after sending the victim on [...]

Great news for guys that struggle to unclip bra straps as a French label has released a range of magnetic underwear. The lingerie is fastened with magnets, rather than the traditional hook, which can leave guys fumbling in despair. It has been named Lingerie Dement, which translates as ‘insane lingerie’, but we think the only [...]

Devotees to the Chinese shrine Ban Tha Rue in Thailand perform mind boggling acts of self motification to ‘celebrate’ vegetarianism. During the festival the devotees aim to purify themselves as they take on the sins of the community and doing this helps, apparently: likebot_bgcolor = ”; likebot_url = ‘http://weirdnewsworld.com/?p=386′; likebot_type = ‘badge’;

The difficulty of telling twins apart certainly does not apply to one woman, as her children were born slightly different, one was black and one was white. Shirley Wales, 21, who gave birth by caesarean section, was astonished when the midwife handed her the twins as her son Leo resembled his Grenadian mother, with dark [...]