Weird news

Weird news - weird, odd and funny news stories and headlines from across the world - NBCNews.com

Previous3/22/2013 10:07:19 PM - 5/7/2013 1:29:16 PMNextReturn to Sitemap

• Ariel Castro charged with kidnapping, rape in Cleveland case
• Ropes, chains found where Cleveland women held
• Questions mount on how Ohio women's captivity went undetected
• Factbox: Some notorious abductions which victims survived
• Harvard professor apologizes for remarks on economist Keynes
• Retired racehorse finds calling as abstract painter
• Bono's one-time Sydney holiday home sells for record $55.4 million
• Calif. woman accused of tainting OJ at Starbucks
• Mother forced daughter, 14, into sperm insemination: UK court
• Return to sender? Maybe not as Somalia to restart mail 22 years on
• Mamma Mia! Bookie offers odds on ABBA reunion
• Utah Mormon bishop brandishes Samurai sword to defend neighbor
• Oops! N.Y.'s Suffolk County accidentally defaults on debt
• Hotelier trapped in Austrian lift for four days
• Playboy club to miss date with sun-kissed Indian state
• Taxi, taxi! China's Internet abuzz about presidential fare
• Mary! Your message in a bottle has arrived...28 years later
• French scientist bemused by buzz over bra research
• Opulent Hotel Crillon bids farewell to treasures at Paris auction
• Maine "hermit" arrested, accused of hundreds of food thefts
• Finland apologizes for "incorrect" Putin blacklisting
• Fake dead girlfriend wins NCAA basketball tournament prediction
• Teenager in garbage container crushed by Luxembourg trash truck
• Vietnam farmer jailed for military-style defense of land
• Saudi court said to order criminal to be surgically paralyzed
• Arizona "pregnant man" to appeal ruling rejecting divorce
• April Fool becomes yet another marketing gimmick
• Google says to shut down YouTube in early April Fools' gag
• Obese airline passengers should pay extra, economist says
• Restaurant meals for kids fail nutrition test: consumer group
• "Devil's Advocate" convicted in London of being fake lawyer
• U.S. film festival cancels award to UK film after tax scam
• "Shameful" sexist Ford car ads spark outrage in India
• Harvard stripped of quiz tournament titles

• Cleveland kidnap victims arrive at family homes
• Police find chains but no human remains at Cleveland kidnap house
• Kidnapping ordeal of three Ohio women went undetected for decade
• U.S. returning looted Tyrannosaurus skeleton to Mongolia
• Kerry phones China over dissident's nephew, can't reach minister
• Secular Turks see red over airline's lipstick ban
• Native American tribe plans to dub 'Star Wars' in Navajo
• California woman accused of planting poisoned juice at Starbucks
• Five rescued, 2 missing in balloon crash off Peruvian coast
• Return to sender? Maybe not as Somalia to restart mail 22 yrs on
• Thief with conscience returns cremated remains in Washington state
• New Jersey parents demand girls' right to bare arm - in strapless dresses
• Oops! New York's Suffolk County accidentally defaults on debt
• World's oldest person celebrates his 116th birthday in Japan
• Spas for pigs, dogs with psychics: meet the "Spoiled Rotten Pets"
• Price of fame: Performers and sports stars die younger
• Charging elephant injures two tourists in South Africa park
• Two million-year-old creature had mix of ape, human traits
• No heads lost in Thatcher statue debate...yet
• Brazen theft from Parisian bridge baffles city
• Bookmakers slash odds on Alexandra for UK royal baby name
• Mali to give France new camel after first one is eaten
• Arizona sets aside day to honor cowboys
• Rooftop beehives create buzz above French parliament
• Popstar Justin Bieber given month to collect pet monkey
• Trump withdraws "orangutan" lawsuit against comic Bill Maher
• April Fool crushed by hi-tech marketing..
• After 55 years, Ohio's Easter Eggshelland comes to an end
• More than 300,000 homes are foreclosed "zombies," study says
• Restaurant meals for kids fail nutrition test: U.S. consumer group
• Going, going, gone - dodo bone up for sale in London
• WPP India unit sacks employees after sexist Ford ads
• "Panda-monium" as giant pandas arrive in Canada from China

• Cleveland kidnap victim Amanda Berry arrives at family home
• Ropes, chains found where Ohio women held
• Police went twice to house where women were held: Cleveland mayor
• Mirren, dressed as queen, reads royal riot act to noisy drummers
• Chinese dissident urges U.S. to ensure family's fair treatment
• Wind farms to lure back German lobsters decimated by WW2
• Starving Virginia settlers turned to cannibalism in 1609: study
• Chechen linesman gets life ban, $16,200 fine for assault
• Seattle's interim police chief sorry for video mocking homeless
• Well-groomed man sought in Rogaine, pill thefts
• Obama threatens "family tattoo" if daughters get their own
• New Jersey parents demand girls' right to bare arms - in strapless dresses
• "Penmanship" is now 'handwriting' as Washington state removes gender bias in statutes
• Criminal lawyer courts UK charts in her alter ego as pop star
• China's Internet abuzz about presidential taxi ride that wasn't
• Captive particles and Dr. Who show physicists are human too
• Florida battles slimy invasion by giant snails
• Japanese fish survive 5,000-mile trip across Pacific in tsunami boat
• Rue Margaret Thatcher in Paris? Pourquoi pas, some ask
• Louvre Museum shuts for day as guards protest pickpockets
• Luck of the draw for Thai army recruits
• Fitness after 65 is no one-size-fits-all endeavor
• Spain raises minimum age for marriage and sex
• British class system alive and growing, survey finds
• Samoan airline says pay by weight plan "fairest" way to fly
• Waist-deep in mud, British PM rescues distressed sheep
• Octogenarian Japanese climber aims for Everest record
• Tokyo bar offers cocktail of booze and Buddhism
• More than 300,000 U.S. homes are foreclosed "zombies," study says
• Pennsylvania stadium aims to please fans with urinal video games
• Rhode Island city drops fine for allegedly foul-mouthed cockatoo
• Battle rages over bones of England's Richard III
• North Korean leader Kim sings military's praises, oungum-style