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Cat returned to owner after 15 years
05 Apr 2012A German cat has been found in woods near Munich and returned to its owner 15 years after going missing.
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Gran to sell car with 576k miles on the clock
05 Apr 2012A 93-year-old grandmother is selling her car, which has 576,000 miles on the clock and has outlasted three different marriages and had 18 battery changes.
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Britain's giant pandas fail to mate
05 Apr 2012Two giant pandas at Britain's Edinburgh Zoo have failed to mate during their limited 36-hour window of fertility.
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Gymnast, 86, wows crowds at world championship
05 Apr 2012An 86-year-old gymnast has wowed the crowds at the gymnastics World Cup in Germany after performing a number of difficult routines.
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King of Swaziland demands cows for his birthday
04 Apr 2012King Mswati III of Swaziland has ordered cows as his birthday present when he turns 44 on April 19.
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Man erects sign to tells kids to be quiet
04 Apr 2012A former TV presenter has erected a sign on his house asking four to seven-year-old kids to be quiet.
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Man spends 20k building Back to the Future car
04 Apr 2012A 'Back to the Future' superfan Brian O'Neill has spent £20,000 fitting out his own car to look like the iconic motor from the movie franchise.
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'Stalker app' pulled from sale
04 Apr 2012A so-called ''stalker app'' has been pulled from sale after critics blasted it for tracking Facebook and Foursquare accounts of people who are nearby.
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Mourners for rent to cry at gravesides
03 Apr 2012A Chinese businessman has employed a team of out of work actors and is hiring them out as mourners to cry at gravesides.
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Police break into car to save toy dog
03 Apr 2012Police in the UK mistakenly broke into a car to save a £4.50 toy dog after they thought it was a real pooch.
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Car crash victim declared dead, then found alive
03 Apr 2012A car crash victim in Australia was declared dead by paramedics before being found alive two hours later when he was being loaded into a coroners' van.
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UK's pandas to mate?
03 Apr 2012Two pandas at Britain's Edinburgh Zoo have put together and given a 36-hour window to mate.
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Six-legged calf born in Switzerland
02 Apr 2012A six-legged calf born in Switzerland has defied the odds to survive after vets predicted she might die.
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Police break sex shop owner out of handcuffs
02 Apr 2012Police in the US had to break a sex shop owner out of handcuffs after he locked himself in a pair while testing them at his adult entertainment store.
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Food store creates bacon-style coffin
02 Apr 2012A food store in the US has created a bacon-style coffin, which is decorated to look like rashers of the meat and comes complete with a bacon air freshener inside.
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Pharmacists threaten 'Viagra strike'
30 Mar 2012Italian hospital pharmacists are threatening to go on a ''Viagra strike'' unless the government changes plans to reform professions which have high entry barriers.
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British house sold for 8,000
30 Mar 2012A house is thought to be the cheapest home in Britain after it was sold for just £8,250.
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Missing parrot flies to owner's school
30 Mar 2012A missing parrot has been reunited with its owner after turning up in her school playground, a quarter of a mile away from her home.
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Lemurs loving the Sun on Sunday
30 Mar 2012Lemurs at a British wildlife park have taken a shine to the Sun on Sunday newspaper after their keeper accidentally left a copy in their enclosure.
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Thieves dig 1km tunnel to jewellery shop
29 Mar 2012Thieves in Italy dug a one-kilometre tunnel to a jewellery shop, but they came unstuck when two of the men popped out of a manhole cover just metres from the store.
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Car clamper calls 999 for ill man, then clamps him
29 Mar 2012A car clamper called an ambulance for an ill motorist who was struggling to breathe - but he still continued to clamp his car.
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Man's life saved by Bee Gees song
29 Mar 2012A man's life has been saved thanks to a Bee Gees song after his friends remembered seeing a TV advert that told people to give chest compressions in time to the 1970s hit 'Stayin Alive'.
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Queen-singing parrot stolen
29 Mar 2012A parrot that doesn't stop singing lines from Queen's number one hit 'Bohemian Rhapsody' has been stolen.
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Dog saves own life by calling 999
28 Mar 2012A dog in Britain has ''saved his own life'' by ringing 999 and breathing heavily down the line, which led to police finding him tangled in a phone cable.
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