WEIRD WORLD

British YouTube travel vlogger Benjamin Rich, famous for exploring some of the dangerous parts of the world, was arrested at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, according to Russian authorities.

A barrel containing human remains was discovered in Nevada's Lake Mead on Sunday amid a historical drought being witnessed by the region.

A British couple, who had quit their jobs during Covid-19 induced lockdown, have claimed that they make £10,000 per month through their OnlyFans account.

An Indian woman's conversation with her father has gone viral on social media with many lauding the woman for what she did with a potential match that she found on a matrimonial website.

Domingo Zapata who is famous for his multiple depictions of the Mona Lisa has claimed that he shares a "romantic and sexual relationship," with the famous painting.

An underwater camera was able to capture a tiger shark trying to swallow a camera. The video, which has now gone viral on social media, was recorded by a Switzerland-based photographer and conservationist, Nico Zimm.

An ultra-rare giant squid, measuring about 9.8ft, washed up at a beach in Japan. The squid was found stranded at Ugu beach in Obama of Fukui Prefecture on Wednesday.

A Taiwanese news channel called CTS had to issue an apology after it accidentally aired a fictional news alert stating that Chinese forces had launched an attack on the country.

A man who bit off a former politician's ear and gashed another person during Hong Kong protests in 2019 has been sentenced to 14 and a half years in prison.

Irish police have arrested a man who was seen dangling a three-week-old baby upside down by his feet as a woman begs him to stop. The incident came to light after a video of the act went viral on social media over Easter weekend.

At least 54 reptiles, including crocodiles and pythons, perished in a fire that broke at the garage of a house they were being kept in by a reptile handler in Queensland, Australia.

A group of thieves posed as government officials to dismantle and steal parts of a 60-feet-long abandoned iron bridge in an Indian village near Bihar's Sasaram.

A man has been arrested for allegedly masturbating while sitting next to a woman on board a Southwest Airlines flight from Seattle to Phoenix on Saturday.

A Sociology textbook elaborating the "merits and advantages" of the dowry system has sparked a row in India with legislators, activists and social media users asking for its removal.

Ever Forward, a sister vessel to the Ever Given ship that had blocked the Suez Canal last year, has been stuck in the Chesapeake Bay for more than three weeks now and all attempts to free it have failed so far.

An Indian techie named Nandan Kumar hacked an airline's website to locate his luggage after he accidentally switched it with a co-passenger's luggage on March 27.

A 59-year-old Chinese man was stopped by the police from test-flying his home-made helicopter. The man had managed to build the helicopter using a boat engine.

A 46-year-old man named Stuart Paul McPhee has been jailed for 32 months for torturing and falsely imprisoning his neighbour after the latter stole a tin of chicken curry from McPhee's flat.

Days after backtracking on its promise to allow re-opening of girls' school beyond sixth grade, the Taliban have now allegedly ordered that women in Afghanistan cannot board flights without a male chaperone.

Authorities in Bahrain shut down an Indian restaurant after its manager allegedly denied entry to a woman wearing hijab. The incident occurred at Bahrain Lanterns, a restaurant in the Adliya area of the country's capital Manama last week on Thursday.

Indian hotel aggregator has delisted the hotel in Delhi which had denied accommodation to a Kashmiri man despite having valid identification cards. The development came after a video of the man being refused accommodation went viral on social media.

We have heard of people keeping designer wardrobes and fancy cars, but seven-year-old Coco might just be amongst the few lucky dogs who get super pampered by their owners.

Anthropologist Dr Jesse Casana says that he may have discovered an ancient city and believes that it could be older than the Egyptian pyramids. The area is called Tell Brak and the discovery has been made by analysing images taken by an old spy satellite.

History has been witness to people falling in love with all sorts of weird things, but a woman from Oxfordshire in the UK has fallen in love with a dead man, no it is not her fiancé's nick name but he is actually dead.

Police have been taking the help of sniffer dogs in solving a crime and catching suspects, but this time it was a goat that helped the police catch a man trying to flee the crime scene on February 13 in the Fieldale area of Georgia.

French astrologer Nostradamus made a number of predictions about what future holds for us in his book Les Prophecies in 1555. It is often been said that he was correct about the Great Fire of London, the rise of Adolf Hitler, Napoleon, and the killing of John F Kennedy.

The 24-year-old wanted to do something unique to bring fame to his village, and was inspired by Bollywood movie "3 Idiots."

The mother claims that she got pregnant and gave birth in the same afternoon.

The "black alien" admits that he had speech difficulties after his lip-removal operation, which exposed his upper teeth.