WEIRD WORLD

Following Saudi Arabia's decision to stop parents naming their child Elaine or Alice, we look at some of the strangest names banned around the world.

Indian woman who gave birth to a baby with two heads was too poor to get ultrasound scans done.

Madchester figurehead calls for revolution and trades in maracas in bid to oust Labour MP Hazel Blears

Tour operators anxiously await results of Sunday's potentially game-changing referendum in Crimea

Estelle Brett has been jailed after smuggling cocaine worth £47,000 in her vagina

Best photos of the day: 14 March 2014.

Python bit off more than it could chew after swallowing Chihuahua-Maltese Cross in New South Wales.

Strange response recorded by cyclist who confronted driver who cut him up on Liverpool road

Best photos of the day: 13 March 2014.

Stay tuned for anti-Semitic psuedo-theorists blaming mysterious disappearance of flight MH370 on 'Jews'.

Former world champion scrambles back from six points down to snatch game from pingpong machine

Fern the boxer dog beeped horn so owners Graham and Fiona Haddow would return to car.

Best photos of the day: 12 March 2014.

Anders Persson's image beats strong competition from headlouse egg, kidney stone and bat X-ray

"This is Mother Nature doing excavations for us" says archaeologist of bones discovered near Bridgend.

43-year-old Arlindo de Souza, from Olinda, Brazil, told Barcroft Media he injected his muscles with mineral oil and alcohol.

Best photos of the day: 11 March 2014

Doctors were able to reattach the man's severed penis.

Best photos of the day: 10 March 2014.

The Aghori drink from skulls and cover themselves with ash from cremated bodies.

71-year woman was attacked in her car by huge swarm of African honey bees.

Many other commercial flights have crashed in similarly mysterious circumstances.

The village of Laza in north-west Spain has a unique way of welcoming the spring.

Researchers scanned woman's brain during her out-of-body state

Jong Park arrested for allegedly throwing the kitchen appliance at wife's head.

Women nearly burnt alive by two drinking partners after being accused of being a witch

One of world's top aerial photographers gets London show for the first time.

Sky Sports pundit was referencing Arsenal fans' song about 6'6" Per Mertesacker.

Muslim nation bans comic from being sold in the country for fear of disturbing 'public order'