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An 11-year-old boy from India has lived with being known as the Werewolf Boy for all of his life as his condition baffles medical experts. Pruthviraj Pati from the Indian district of Sangli near Bombay suffers from hypertrichosis and is said to be one of only 50 people in the world with the condition. He [...]

It is amazing what you can find your sofa, as well as under the cushions of course, but the amazement usually entails money, long-lost keys and unfortunately decomposed food. So, imagine the reaction of a woman in Brazil who found an alligator behind her sofa and to make matters worse her three-year-old son was tapping [...]

A girl from China has been crowned as having the most digits (fingers and toes) out of any of the six billion people on this planet. lLei Yadi Min from Yangon in China is the proud holder of seven toes in each foot and six fingers on each hand, leaving her with a whopping 26 [...]

A man has been killed by a cock, which he had been watching fight in an illegal showdown between two birds in Tulare County, central California. Jose Luis Ochoa, 35, was declared dead in hospital where he arrived some two hours after being injured by the cock, which was armed with a knife. “I have [...]

In a country where President Silvio Berlusconi as been accused of… well just what hasn’t he been accused of, it probably comes as no surprise that a politician has been caught checking out escorts on his iPad while sitting in parliament. Simeone Di Cagno Abbrescia was snapped surreptitiously browsing through pictures of half-naked women on [...]

A man has had a human ear grown inside his arm, all in the name of art. The Australian performance artist  Stelarc almost lost his arm in the process of creating his ‘artwork’ which is mind-blowing in its weirdness. It took the man a decade to find a surgeon willing to carry out the procedure, [...]

A New York steak house is preparing the world’s most expensive buffet meal ahead of Sunday’s Super Bowl. The cost of the meal by Manhatten’s Old Homestead Steakhouse is to be an eyewatering $20,000, although the food on offer is of course mouthwatering. The feast, which will be served up in the home of the [...]

It is good manners (and good hygiene) to put your hand over your mouth when you sneeze, but this is not usually to protect people near to you from being hit by a bullet. However, this is what happened to an Italian man, Darco Sangermano, who had been hit in the head by a stray [...]

Mutated animals is a firm favourite of ours at Weird News World and so we couldn’t miss the chance to report on a two-headed calf that was born to a farmer in a village in the eastern Europe state of Georgia. Farmer Irakli Dzhgarkava says the cow is refusing to allow her strange offspring to [...]

Reviewing the photos from a New Years Eve party can be a worrying task for us all and this applies even to royalty as a prince from Denmark found out. Prince Henrik of Denmark was photographed with his wife, Queen Margrethe II, at the royals’ gala New Year’s party at Amalienborg Palace in Copenhagen with [...]