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I am sure we have all swivelled across the office on our chair when the boss isn’t looking, while some of us may have undertaken a challenge to see who can get across the floor first on our office chair on particularly quiet days. So, it is no surprise that someone has taken this tomfoolery [...]

We love weird art (clearly) and our new favourite weird artist is Erwin Wurm from Austria. Wurm, 56, has developed a reputation for creating poses of himself or others in weird situations, while he has also developed some exceptionally weird, yet amazing, sculptures. Wurm placed this upside home on the MUMOK museum in Vienna, which [...]

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 19-year-old girl from England died in a car accident which investigators have put down to a slug or snail being the culprit. Katie Dagley, 19, was driving home from work when she approached a single lane bridge controlled by lights that had malfunctioned just 20 minutes earlier. She drove her Ford Ka onto the [...]

You’ve probably been on a holiday where you are dying to go out to explorer to head down to the beach, but you are waiting for your friend or loved one to tear themselves away from the mirror. Imagine the difficulties if you were staying in this rather odd hotel in Berlin, Germany. The Propeller [...]

A man from Devon in England has escaped jail despite a police operation uncovering that he been having sex with a horse. The owner of the horse, Amber, had suspected the horse had been ‘interfered’ with and worked with police to install an alarm and camera system. This led to police catching Derek Woods, 26, [...]

A climber who had fallen 1,000ft down a mountain stunned rescuers after being found standing up reading a map. The 35-year-old lost his footing at the summit of Sgurr Choinnich Mor near Ben Nevis in the Highlands of Scotland and tumbled down the near-vertical eastern slope of the mountain. While rescuers may have been expecting [...]

Every country has a few oddball criminals who found themselves in trouble for doing impossibly random things, or get found out for being unbelievably stupid, yet Germany seems to have more than most. Here is a rundown of our favourite German convicts: Underwear thief caught with massive haul A German man was arrested after a [...]

Belgium is famed for being rather dull and it appears they also do political anarchy in a dull, yet amusing, way too. A caretaker government has been running the country since June and the parties remain split meaning the country has gone its longest time without a formal government since World War II. To inspire [...]

The mystery surrounding a new wave of dead birds has been solved after it was discovered the birds from Romania had drunk themselves to death. Following incidents in America, Sweden and Italy residents in Constanta in eastern Romania found dozens of dead starlings on the outskirts of the city on Saturday. It was first feared [...]