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Chinese driver asked to pay 16mn pounds for collapsed bridge

A Chinese driver, whose truck was so heavy that the bridge he drove over, collapsed, has been asked to pay about 16 million pounds as damage charges.

According to the Daily Mail, Zhang was driving a

Japan ukulele ensemble crowned world's largest

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More than 2,000 musicians strummed ukuleles in a Japanese port city on Saturday to set a new world record for the largest ever ensemble of the Hawaiian guitar.

Their effort was recognised by Guinness

Cheating website offering divorce money as competition prize

A British website has set up a competition that encourages extra marital affairs and offers to pay for the divorce if they get caught.

Couples, who are on the brink of splitting are generally in need

Man released from jail thrown back inside after refusing to leave

A north Carolina man was thrown back into jail after he refused to leave the premises as the sheriff did not give him a lift to a nearby motel.

Rodney Dwayne Valentine jailed since May 22 refused to

Saudi man marries at 90

A Saudi man, who has been practicing celibacy for 90 long years, finally decided to get married and has planned to make his honeymoon an extravaganza.

Khalil Al Sallami's marriage was solemnized in a

Man frees 17-pound lobster from Connecticut restaurant

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A Connecticut man purchased a 17-pound lobster at a Waterford restaurant, then released the crustacean back into Long Island Sound.

Don MacKenzie of Niantic tells The Day of New London he knew the lo

Faulty UK ATM starts paying 'free money'

Any time double money! A faulty ATM in the UK started dispensing double the amount requested as people squabbled with each other to avail the sudden windfall.

Police were called to calm crowds that

Pak SC settles bitter battle over humble samosa

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Alas! The days of cheap samosas in Pakistan are over.

Ending a legal wrangle over the price of the humble samosa, the Supreme Court has set aside a notification of the Punjab government whereby the

African man ‘raped to death’ by 5 ‘jealous wives’

A wealthy Nigerian businessman was ‘raped to death’ by five of his wives because he was paying too much attention to the sixth one.

Uroko Onoja from Ogbadibo was having sex with his youngest wife whe

Singapore boys face seven years' jail for bus theft

Three Singaporean teenagers are facing the prospect of up to seven years behind bars for allegedly stealing school buses to go on joyrides, the Straits Times reported on Wednesday.

A police statement

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I want to begin with a little story that was told to me by a leading executive at Aptech. He was exercising in a gym with a lot of younger people.

Shekhar Kapur’s Bandit Queen didn’t make the cut. Neither did Shaji Karun’s Piravi, which bagged 31 international awards.