The incident on the state-run television of Turkmenistan, a republic of the former Soviet Union, took place in the beginning of February. A group of employees working on the TV channel was fired; about 30 others were strictly reprimanded

A 73-year-old man residing in Las Vegas caused a funny stir in the media this week, when he announced that he had found an ultra-rare nude photograph of Marilyn Monroe

A ban on dying in the Houses of Parliament has been voted Britain's most ridiculous law.It beat off strong competition from the law making it an act of treason to place a postage stamp bearing the monarch's head upside down on an envelope.

'Nano toilet' won the Most Bizarre prize at The 49th International Conference on Electron, Ion and Photon Beam Technology and Nanofabrication Bizarre/Beautiful Micrograph Contest.

A miniature dachshund out for a walk on a beach found a bone which turned out to be part of a woolly mammoth's leg. Daisy spotted the fossilised remains sticking out of a beach near the low tide mark

George Bush's battle to pronounce complicated words has been laid bare after White House officials mistakenly released an unedited copy of his UN speech, complete with phonetic spellings.

Designers from a Philippine Ad agency created quite a dubious series of ad posters advertising an antifungal agent. They compared feet fungus with trainers made of faeces, flip-flops made of dead fish and slippers made of dead rats.

The police were in hot pursuit involving gunfire and sports cars on the federal highway Moscow – Saint Petersburg on Wednesday. The perpetrators were speeding away toward Moscow. They managed to get away from the police who chased them down the road for nearly two hours.

The world's first treatment centre for nail biters is to open in the Netherlands next month. Director of the new centre in Venlo, Alain-Raymond van Abbe of the Institute for Pathological Onychophagy (IPO) says he and his team have invented an aid to make nail-biting impossible.

Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the last president of the Soviet Union is to appear in coming September magazines advertising Louis Vuitton bags. A decade ago, Mr. Gorbachev’s appearance in a Pizza Hut commercial was generally greeted as a low point in his career.

A bronze sculpture of a stallion holding a piece of rail in its mouth was built last week in the yard of Yar Hotel situated at the entrance to the Russian town of Voronezh. The 3.5-meter-high statue weighs more than 3 tons. The stallion has a short-cut tail and the well-marked reproductive organ which greatly resembles the one of a man.

A mysterious blonde paid a visit to a petrol station shop in the small eastern German town of Doemitz - wearing nothing but a pair of golden stilettos and a thin gold bracelet.

Kylie Minogue is making 420-mile round-trips to the Paris home of her ex Olivier Martinez - just to walk his dog. The couple split after four years but Kylie, 39, is still besotted by his Rhodesian ridgeback pet Sheeba.

Days after U.S. college student Shira Barlow got her new cell phone number, the party inquiries, birthday wishes and late-night calls started arriving. Barlow had unwittingly inherited the old phone number of celebrity hotel heiress Paris Hilton -- and messages from well-wishers and foes alike are still flooding in five months later. [Funny stories]

Breast enlargement is now the most common graduation gift for girls who pass their secondary school exams in Italy.Boob jobs have knocked cars and summer holidays back into second and third places respectively. [Funny stories]

A hard-up British Airways worker slept in a works' store cupboard for nearly eight months. Stephen McNally, 30, bunked down among computers and photocopiers to avoid security. [Funny stories]

Robert Stewart was allegedly caught in the act by two terrified cleaners who walked into his bedroom in a hostel. The charge alleges he conducted himself in a disorderly manner, simulated sex with a bicycle and continued to do so while naked from the waist down in the presence of two female employees. [Funny stories]

A Chinese company that once tried to sell land on the Moon has lost an appeal against a court ruling that stopped it from selling bags of "World Cup air". Li Jie, the company's chief executive officer, had planned to sell the bags to soccer fans for 50 yuan ($6.60) each. [Funny stories]

The Vatican took a break from strictly theological matters on Tuesday to issue its own rules of the road, a compendium of do's and don'ts on the moral aspects of driving and motoring. [Funny stories]

A northern Idaho woman says a funeral home cremated her husband without permission and in the process destroyed an artificial leg worth more than $7,000. [Funny stories]