Odd World

A man was flung from his pickup truck and landed up in a tree when he lost control of the vehicle in Durban, South Africa on Sunday afternoon.According to South Africa's Rescue Care spokesperson Garrith Jamieson, paramedics arrived on...

A gang of thieves on Saturday stole an 18-carat gold toilet from an art exhibition at Britain's Blenheim Palace, police said -- causing flooding to the World Heritage Site. The fully-functioning piece by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, dubbed "America", was...

Bible in hand, an instant millionaire from Pretoria wants a five-bedroom house in a leafy suburb and will pay for her daughter to become the first person in the family to get a degree. A domestic worker for 30 years,...

Police in Durban South Africa found three children aged, four, six and ten with a teenage girl all hanged allegedly by their stepfather, who authority says is on the run. A newspaper columnist described it as 'a crime that defies...

Protesting students of a high school in KwaZulu-Natal province in South Africa has shocked everyone but themselves by including a demand for smoke breaks in the list of their grievances. Earlier report had indicated that the primary reason for the...

A Cape Town nurse, Ms Elizabeth Williams has been arrested after a video surfaced of her allegedly forcing a woman to eat dog faeces. The 38-year-old woman was arrested on Friday morning and appeared in court the same day, said...

An Indian man who was bitten by a snake got his immediate revenge on the reptile by biting it back and killing it, the man’s father said. Raj Kumar was relaxing at home in Etah, the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, enjoying an...

A man who believed in "corrective rape" for lesbians has failed in an appeal against two life sentences. Zabathini Jonas, from Petrusville in the Northern Cape, twice raped a 24-year-old woman, and told a magistrate in Philipstown that he "wanted...

Mississippi State Official Carl Robinson killed his wife, Latoya Thompson, and then himself in a violent murder-suicide after he was served with divorce papers. It seems to be another example of and ego trip turning deadly. Carl Robinson, 43, reportedly walked...

A Russian pensioner who claimed to be the oldest person who ever lived has died at the reported age of 123.Father-of-eight Appaz Iliev, from the republic of Ingushetia, near Georgia, said he was...