Offbeat

Airport security allegedly caught a man who was attempting to smuggle over 300 tarantulas and over 100 centipedes by strapping them to his body.

California is seeing its share of bear break-ins. Now it’s seen a fake one — someone in a bear costumer rummaging through luxury cars.

The Food and Drug Administration has not told consumers what to do with the purchased product

Four people from Los Angeles County are facing insurance fraud and conspiracy charges after allegedly staging fake bear attacks with a bear costume.

Who owns the escaped monkeys now? It’s more complicated than you might think.

Police are reportedly trying to figure out who owned the monkey

A naked British tourist had to be rescued after falling from a hotel balcony while covered in poo in Thailand’s ‘Sin City’.

Swiss students made history with Europe's first rocket hop test, but a slice of Gruyère almost turned it into a disaster.

Anonymous complaints about Peanut — also spelled P’Nut or PNUT — brought at least six officers from the state Department of Environmental Conservation to the owner's home.

‘This is a great loss for us,’ his caretaker says

Had they never seen the long-running Border Security: Australia's Front Line reality show?

Wellington gallery says Ronnie van Hout’s Quasi statue ‘was hated by the people but turned out to be a great tragic-romantic hero’. It heads to Australia next

A wild boar rampaged through a city railway station in South Gyeongsang and bit a person's arm on Tuesday.

“No signs of intoxication or illness, even after chronically consuming huge amounts of alcohol.”…

The city is the size of Edinburgh and among the largest Mayan sites in ancient Latin America.

The Wonka star stuns fans by turning up to his own lookalike contest and poses for photos with contestants.

Dee Harrison, 56, spotted the reddish hue while driving to work through Branford, Suffolk, on Wednesday

Fraudsters targeted the high-value cheddar by pretending to be legitimate wholesalers.

The 25-year-old man was arrested after he drove the ice-resurfacing machine into the boards at a rink in Chelsea, Que., while cleaning the ice between two games.

The woman spent seven hours upside down between the boulders, with only her feet visible to rescuers.

The new rule was announced on Sept 26 and suggests: “For fonder farewells please use the carpark.” Read more at straitstimes.com.

Driver in Stalowa Wola described fearing he had hit person after he saw body in road

A judge in northern Greece has imposed a suspended one-month prison sentence on a man convicted of disturbing his neighbors by repeatedly sneaking into their properties to smell their shoes.

Can you make a robot vacuum eat a bar of soap?

A woman from China has pleaded guilty to attempting to smuggle 29 eastern box turtles, a protected species, across a Vermont lake into Canada by kayak.

Florentina Holzinger’s bloody Sancta was criticised by Austrian bishops and is now a sellout in Germany

A dancer in Denmark has a lump an inch thick removed after "years of extensive headspinning practice".

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A mechanic working at the LAM museum in Lisse assumed the artwork, entitled All The Good Times We Spent Together, was rubbish

Schubarth’s primary motivation for designing such a creature was to sell the sheep at an exorbitant price for captive trophy hunting in Texas and Minnesota.

The winner of the Florida Python Challenge removed 20 Burmese pythons from the Everglades. Ronald Kiger was announced as the winner on Tuesday and will take home the $10,000 grand prize.

The man faces two years in prison, the maximum penalty for aggravated animal cruelty

The thieves stole thousands of pounds of crab meat from a tractor-trailer on Packer Avenue, police said.

The education bureau suggests teens who want to have sex could "go out to play badminton together" instead.

This year, more than 600 people registered for the event, with two coming from Canada and 108 from other states.

Controversial statue has been described by critics as ‘exploitative’ and ‘blatantly sexist’

Police say the man stole a trove of limited-edition coins themed on the hit children’s tv show.

Two black bears are being blamed for causing a bit of a ruckus in Connecticut. State officials say an adult bear and a cub got trapped inside a car in Winsted on July 15 and destroyed the vehicle's interior.

The Ohio Supreme Court says consumers can't expect boneless chicken wings to actually be free of bones.