Odd News
30 May 2019
A California hospital on Wednesday disclosed the birth of the world's smallest baby ever to survive, weighing a mere 245 grams (8.6 ounces) -- the same as a large apple -- when she was born.
23 May 2019
A woman aged 102 has been placed in psychiatric care in northeastern France after she was suspected of murdering her 92-year-old neighbour in a care home, prosecutors said. The victim, was found on Saturday night dead and with her face swollen in her room at the care home in the town of Chezy-sur-Marne. The autopsy…
21 May 2019
Nigerian Police Force Monday detained a vulture and its owner in Maiha, Adamawa State. The police authorities said it ordered the arrest of the woman and her vulture following a complaint against them by a man in Maiha. Adamu Madaki, Adamawa's Commissioner of Police, said the man complained that the detained woman had brought a…
20 May 2019
Pastor Samson Farounbi, has told an Idi-Ogungun Customary Court, Agodi, in Ibadan, that the small size of his penis made his estranged wife to deny him sex for a long period. Farounbi disclosed this on Monday when testifying before the court on a case of divorce he instituted against Tope Farounbi. He had requested the…
16 May 2019
The Austrian government Thursday warned internet users to shun an online cow-kissing challenge, calling it a "dangerous nuisance". A Swiss app called Castl launched the #KuhKussChallenge ("Cow Kiss Challenge") on Wednesday, encouraging users in Switzerland and other German-speaking countries to kiss cows -- "with or without tongues" -- to raise money for charity. But Austrian…
15 May 2019
German police launched a search Wednesday for a man who during a test drive of a vintage Ferrari worth over two million euros (over $2 million) sped off with the luxury sports car.
15 May 2019
A Malaysian teenager who posted an Instagram poll asking if she should live or die took her life after a majority of respondents said yes, sparking calls for an investigation.
13 May 2019
Diego Maradona is sure to cause a stir when he turns up next week at the Cannes film festival for a new documentary about his jaw-dropping life by the Oscar-winning maker of "Amy". It is only one of a wave of new works about the flawed Argentine football genius that include a just-wrapped Amazon biopic…
13 May 2019
More than a dozen sheep have been "registered" at a French primary school as pupils as it was feared that some classes might be closed due to lack of students, Xinhua, a Chinese news agency reports. Some 50 sheep were brought to the school by a local farmer earlier this month and fifteen of them…
11 May 2019
Penis enlargement has become a fetish for a lot of men who believe that the bigger the size, the more masculine they become. For these men, penis enlargement surgeries have become the order of the day. However, a new research has shown that penis enlargement surgery hardly works and may have a reverse effect. This…
11 May 2019
A Coptic priest's comments about women's clothing being too revealing in churches has sparked a heated debate this week among Egyptian Christians, the largest religious minority in the Middle East. Father Daoud Lamei, a well-known parish priest in an upmarket Cairo suburb with a sizeable social media following, lambasted Christian women for attire that he…
7 May 2019
A police station in northeastern Paris had to be evacuated on Sunday after it was invaded by fleas, a police union said. "Police station closed until further notice!" read an notice stuck to the front door of the station, which is located in the 19th district of the French capital. In a fit of pique…