Bizarre

17 June 2022

Ed Sheeran lookalike welcomes baby daughter with superfan partner

An Ed Sheeran lookalike has had a baby girl and named it after the singer's wife. Ty Jones and his partner Amanda Baron have welcomed their first child into the world ...
17 June 2022

Police find parrot after smashing door looking for elderly woman

Police smashed their way into a house to rescue an elderly woman - only to discover that it was a parrot squawking the word 'help'. Officers kicked down the door at ...

16 June 2022

Woman marries herself in India

A woman has married herself in India's first-ever solo wedding. Kshama Bindu held the ceremony at her home in the presence of family and friends earlier this month. She had been planning ...

16 June 2022

Daily pint of beer is good for you

A daily pint of beer is good for the gut. A study has found that a glass of lager each day boosts healthy bacteria to fend off diseases and infections with ...

16 June 2022

Miracle pill produces same result as a gym workout

A miracle pill that produces the same results as a gym workout could be on the horizon. The drug could revolutionise the lives of couch potatoes as it fills the body ...

16 June 2022

China may have picked up alien messages

China could have picked up messages from aliens. Reports claim that state-backed scientists in the country detected unusual electromagnetic signals, possibly from intelligent civilisations elsewhere in the galaxy. The scientists argued they ...

15 June 2022

Shapeshifting robot can treat diseases

A robot has been developed that can travel through the body and treat diseases. The shape-shifting 'millibot' is inspired by origami and is controlled by magnets and carries strong drugs directly ...

15 June 2022

Magic mushrooms should be given out in care homes

Psychedelic drugs should be given out in care homes. Expert Dr. David Luke has suggested that substances found in magic mushrooms could "revolutionise" treatment for older people and reduce their fear ...

15 June 2022

Showing love to cats makes them more likely to scratch sofas

Showing love to a pet cat makes it more likely to scratch the sofa. A new study conducted by researchers at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil ...

15 June 2022

Buried World War II motorbike found in back garden

A buried World War II motorbike was discovered by a man tidying his back garden. Richard Bannister was digging at his home in North Yorkshire and was puzzled when his spade ...

14 June 2022

Pet dogs are like surrogate children to humans

Pet dogs are like surrogate children for their owners. A leading anthropologist has claimed that the bond humans share with their pooches is as close as that between a parent and ...

14 June 2022

Company to pay homeowners to release 100 cockroaches into houses

A pest control company is offering homeowners in the United States $2,000 to release 100 cockroaches into their property. The Pest Informer is searching for 5-6 households to allow the firm ...

14 June 2022

Google's AI is as clever as an eight-year-old child

A Google employee has warned that the company's AI is already as clever as an eight-year-old child. Blake Lemoine, a senior software engineer with the tech giant, has tested the company's ...

14 June 2022

Tim Peake claims that aliens and time travellers could be behind UFOs

Aliens or time travellers could be behind a series of UFO sightings, the astronaut Tim Peake has claimed. NASA has formed a team of experts to probe the 143 unexplained objects ...

13 June 2022

Heart attacks could be predicted in advance with eye test

Heart attacks could be predicted five years in advance with a simple eye test. A scientific study claims that unusual patterns of blood vessels in the retina are a sign of ...

13 June 2022

Women have hotter brains than men

Women are more hot-heated than men. A study has found that the female brain temperatures are likely to top 40C and are around 0.4C hotter than the male brain. Researchers at the ...

13 June 2022

Monkeys watch videos with new gadget

Monkeys have been embracing video streaming. A monkey media player has allowed the primates to watch videos or listen to audio on a screen in their enclosure at a zoo in ...

10 June 2022

Remains of Europe's 'largest ever' predator dinosaur found

Remains of Europe's largest ever predator dinosaur have been discovered on the Isle of Wight. Palaeontologists at the University of Southampton have identified the remains of the creature - which measured ...

10 June 2022

Brits forget 1,095 things a year

Brits forget an average of more than 1,000 things per year. A new study has revealed that absent-minded people from the UK forget 1,095 things a year with the most common ...

10 June 2022

Music fan makes £65,000 from Liam Gallagher gig grass

An Oasis fan has made £65,000 after picking up blades of grass at a Liam Gallagher concert. David Watson says he listed the grass on eBay while "hungover" after attending the ...
10 June 2022

New Zealand plans to tax cow and sheep burps

New Zealand is planning to tax the burps of cows and sheep. The proposal would make the country the first in the world to charge farmers for the gases emitted from ...

9 June 2022

Ukraine bakery honours Boris Johnson with croissant

A Ukrainian bakery has named a croissant after Boris Johnson. The British Prime Minister has been immortalised in a pastry with his signature blonde hairdo at Cafe Zavertailo in Kyiv. The bakery ...
9 June 2022

Love potions could be available in five years

Love potions could be available within five years. Experts have suggested that drugs that spark romance could be available to singletons in the next few years while a form of anti-depressant ...

9 June 2022

NASA chief: Intelligent alien life is likely to exist

Intelligent alien life is likely to exist, the head of NASA has said. Bill Nelson, the former space shuttle astronaut and US senator, believes that the universe is too big not ...