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| Aug 1 2010 3:33am | Warning As Boa Constrictor Goes On The Loose |
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| Police have warned residents to be on their guard after a two-metre long (6ft) boa constrictor escaped from its owner's home in Essex.... more | |
| Jul 31 2010 8:43pm | Two Friends Take To The Skies In Flying Boat |
| Two Norwegian friends have taken to the skies on a wing and a prayer in a home-made flying boat.... more | |
| Jul 31 2010 8:22pm | New Korea For Shamed World Cup Coach |
| North Korea's football coach has reportedly been punished for the team's poor performance at the World Cup by being forced to work as a builder.... more | |
| Jul 30 2010 11:59pm | Tokyo's 'Oldest Man' Died 30 Years Ago |
| A family hid the mummified body of a relative in his bedroom for 30 years to keep his title of Tokyo's oldest man.... more | |
| Jul 30 2010 11:39pm | Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat, Where Have You Been? |
| A tomcat called Timothy has stunned animal carers by turning up more than 800 miles from his home - a year after he went missing.... more | |
| Jul 30 2010 7:35pm | Woman 'Calls 911 After Acupuncture Mishap' |
| A woman apparently had to pull acupuncture needles out of her back and call emergency services after staff forgot about her and closed the clinic with her still inside.... more | |
| Jul 30 2010 12:14am | New Harrods Owners Fall Prey To Clampers |
| The new owners of Harrods got a taste of London life when they returned to their luxury cars to find they had been clamped.... more | |
| Jul 29 2010 4:05pm | NYC Spends Big To Stop The Bedbugs Biting |
| In the city that never sleeps there is one increasingly busy nocturnal resident that New York wants to evict.... more | |
| Jul 29 2010 2:11am | Briton Becomes Slowest Channel Swimmer |
| A 56-year-old woman has become the slowest person to swim the English Channel after being pushed more than 40 miles off course by the tides.... more | |
| Jul 28 2010 10:44pm | Britain's Oldest Twitter User Dies Aged 104 |
| Britain's oldest Twitter user Ivy Bean, who regulary updated her 56,000 followers, has died aged 104.... more | |
| Jul 28 2010 9:02pm | Toxic Fumes Kill Hero Panda At Chinese Zoo |
| A man has been arrested after a panda died from inhaling poisonous fumes in its enclosure at a Chinese zoo.... more | |
| Jul 28 2010 9:02pm | Iconic Snapper's Negatives Come To Light |
| A set of negatives bought in a car boot sale for just under £30 have been valued at around £130m after being identified as the work of photographer Ansel Adams.... more | |
| Jul 28 2010 2:39am | Is This The Best Goal Celebration Ever? |
| An Icelandic football team have become an internet sensation for celebrating their winning goals in a somewhat unique style.... more | |
| Jul 27 2010 10:34pm | Vets Warn Of Growing Pet Obesity Problems |
| Owners who long for cute and cuddly pets are risking feeding them to an early death, an animal charity says.... more | |
| Jul 27 2010 9:33pm | Beard Boob By Cross-Dressing Bank Robber |
| A cross-dressing robber with fake breasts and a blonde wig has been arrested by police because he failed to shave off his beard.... more | |
| Jul 27 2010 12:46am | Nasa Discoveries Spark Hopes Of Alien Life |
| Nasa's planet-hunting deep space observatory has found hundreds of new potential planets, sparking hopes of finding other worlds similar to Earth.... more | |
| Jul 26 2010 8:20pm | M&S Sells Uniforms For Obese Three-Year-Olds |
| School blazers for obese three-year-olds and size 18 girls are being offered in Marks & Spencer's new plus-size school uniform range.... more | |
| Jul 26 2010 8:20pm | A Lot Of Bottle: Recycled Boat Crosses Ocean |
| A boat made out of 12,500 recycled plastic bottles has reached dry land after sailing across the Pacific Ocean.... more | |
| Jul 26 2010 1:35am | Top Of The Plops: Pigeon Poo Ruins Leon Gig |
| Rock band Kings of Leon abandoned a US concert after just three songs because pigeons kept pooing on their heads.... more | |
| Jul 25 2010 10:12pm | Putin Sings With Deported Russian Spies |
| Vladimir Putin has revealed he met and even sang patriotic Soviet songs with a group of Russian spies deported from America.... more |








