November 2010 Archives

It was a terrible day to bury bad news - because on April 11, 1954, NOTHING happened.

In a century that saw two world wars, space exploration and the invention of TV and the internet, that desperately dull 24 hours was the mother of all slow news days.

Why starting people in gyms too young is a bad idea.

French farmer Michel Rouyer has been fined for growing marijuana and feeding them to his ducks to rid them of worms.

An online betting exchange is distributing packs of the strongest coffee ever brewed to help prop up the eyelids of English cricket fans so they can watch the Ashes series unfold in Australia.

A German appears to clamber stark naked into the boot of his car in a bizarre scene that has set the internet buzzing.

The man with no pants was captured by a roving camera helping to map the world for website Google Street View.

The baffling snap shows him climbing into a Mercedes at Mannheim, south-west Germany, while a dog sprawls on the driveway. One blogger kindly suggested he was simply wearing flesh-coloured shorts as he fixed a brake light.

But Google has removed the image to spare any further embarrasment.

A boy from Essex has discovered a 16th-century gold pendant while using a metal detector with his dad.

Dressing a potato as Father Christmas and then blasting it up into space could have been a recipe for disaster.

It may have burnt to a crisp... or even boiled up on board the spacechip, Spudnik 2. But this incredible space mission, devised by a group of schoolchildren, was a g-astronomical success.

Crackpot Charles Bronson covered himself in butter while naked and took on 12 prison warders in his latest jail rage.

The 57-year-old flipped after growing more and more furious over his latest failed bid to be freed.

A survey has suggested that only-children have a happier lifestyle than those with brothers or sisters because they don't have to compete for their parents' attention.

Authorities in the Netherlands have handed out 30,000 cards with a marijuana scent on them to citizens so they will know if their neighbours are growing something they shouldn't be.