Weird News World

Of all the modes of transport you could be on when being faced by a leopard a bike is probably at the bottom of the wish list. However, 32-year-old South African farm worker, Pieta Ncube, managed to use his bike to save his life after being pounced on by the big cat as he took [...]

A judge in the African nation of Malawi is looking to outlaw the act of breaking wind in public. Justice Minister George Chaponda wants to criminalise flatulence to promote “public decency” and tells would-be offenders to ‘just go to the toilet when you feel like farting’. However, another judge is dismissing how the terms of the [...]

Funerals are rather dull affairs, let’s be honest, but they certainly are not in Ghana, Africa, thanks to their love of the most elaborate coffins you could imagine existing. They are so astonishingly detailed that those not yet filled have become tourist attractions and it is not hard to see why after taking a look [...]

A man from Angola has been officially recognised as having the widest mouth in the world in one of the weirdest Guinness World Records. Francisco Domingo Joaquim’s mouth measures a whopping six and a half inches across, which is big enough for him to fit an entire can of coke in his mouth – sideways. [...]

A crocodile has been blamed following a plane crash in the African nation of the Democratic Republic of Congo in which 20 people were killed. As the plane began its descent a crocodile that had been smuggled on the plane escaped from a sports bag in the Let L-410, which hit a house after panic [...]