A soccer-mad vicar was so desperate not to miss his beloved team play that he wore his football shirt underneath his cassock as he performed a wedding ceremony so he could rush straight to Manchester United's Old Trafford ground.
London's new toilets will pop up out of the ground after dark when revellers come out. In the morning the urinals, to make their debut soon in the West End, will retreat into the pavement where they will look like manhole covers.
Cash wasn't the only demand from a New Jersey bank robbery suspect. She also was hop ing the bank would provide a getaway driver. After ordering a teller to fill a plastic bag with money, the woman demanded that someone give her a ride, a prosecutor said.
Police had to be called after a 97-year-old woman attacked her 96-year-old husband in Mannheim, Germany, with a walking stick and refused to let him back into the house. The row blew up after the man came back from shopping and was accused of being a lazy coach potato.
Police in St Petersburg, Russia, have arrested a drug addict for possession of an anti-aircraft missile. They say he was planning to sell it. The man claims he'd found it at a military training ground and wanted to show his friends.
A gutsy adventurer plans to sail from New York to Rio de Janeiro in a boat made from 180 plastic bottles. Jose Geraldo de Souza Castro, who expects to complete the journey in two years, has made a plastic boat to high light the pollution of oceans from trash.
Drinking pints in the pub is a more important part of Irish life than worshipping at church, a market research survey has found. Just 22 per cent of people surveyed said church was important, while 35 per cent made going to the pub at least once a week a priority.
A one-legged inmate set to be executed today has requested an artificial leg so he can "walk like a man" to his death by lethal injection. Texas prison officials refused the request, saying a new leg wasn't necessary and would cost taxpayers $A15,300.
Two men who tried to rob a cash machine in Kentucky by running a chain from the machine to the bumper bar of their utility only succeeded in pulling off the bumper. Scared, they fled the scene, leaving behind the bumper with the number plate still attached.
A thief was allowed to walk off a cruise ship in the Bahamas with a $25,000 Picasso etching when organisers avoided searching passengers before they got off. Officials said it was easier to write the theft off as a loss rather than searching the 2500 passengers.
A London clinic is charging red-faced professionals $11,000 to drill a hole in their armpits, snip away nerve endings and stop them blushing. Patients include TV presenters and bankers who are fearful that signs of weakness may damage their careers.
Stockport County football team in Britain are to turn day into night in desperate bid to avoid relegation. The club has won three games all season and they've all been played at night. "The floodlights will be going on however bright the day," a spokesman said.
A sneaky female driver's ploy to use a Washington highway's car pool lane, which requires at least one passenger per vehicle, came unstuck when her mini-van was involved in a crash. Police discovered the woman's passenger was a life-sized mannequin.
"Thou shalt not plagiarise sermons" may have to be added to the 10 Commandments in the wake of the 90-day suspension of a Michigan clergyman for lifting his remarks from the Internet. The local bishop is conducting an investigation.
A man in the Indian city of Calcutta who applied for a state government job 34 years ago finally got an interview call this week - but said he was now too old for a post. The 52-year-old grandfather was just a teenager when he registered.
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