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Glastonbury stars Jarvis Cocker, Little Boots and Fatboy Slim paint themselves blue for charity photo shoot Jun 22 2009

Jarvis Cocker, Little Boots and Fatboy Slim painted themselves blue for a charity photo shoot ahead of the Glastonbury festival.Read

Record numbers attend Stonehenge to mark the summer solstice Jun 22 2009

Record numbers of people descended on Stonehenge to mark the summer solstice.Read

Rugby coach fines himself for drunken escapade Jun 22 2009

An Australian rugby coach fined himself 10,000 Australian dollars (£4,893) after a drunken escapade in which he tried to gain access to a woman’s hotel room.Read

Masked man tries to steal cash machine with a forklift truck Jun 22 2009

A masked man in Malaysia reportedly tried to steal an entire automated cash machine with a forklift truck - but apparently abandoned the bid when the alarm went off.Read

Thousands of faithful in Burma donate their hair in a money-raising campaign to repair the route to a sacred Buddhist pagoda Jun 22 2009

Thousands of faithful in Burma have donated 1,750 pounds of their hair in a money-raising campaign to repair the route to a sacred Buddhist pagoda.Read

Crispie duck popular at restaurant - as a guest not a dish Jun 19 2009

Crispie duck has become very popular at a restaurant - not as an item on the menu but as a regular guest, the owner said.Read

Council workers warned they could be sacked for not wearing underwear or deodorant Jun 19 2009

Council workers in a Florida city have been warned they could be sacked for failing to use deodorant or not wearing underwear.Read

Knife-wielding Gorilla shocks Calgary Zoo visitors Jun 19 2009

Zoo bosses have denied a knife-wielding primate photographed by visitors to the Calgary Zoo had any violent intent.Read

Estonian shipping line gives free lifetime travel to a baby born on a cruise ferry en route from Sweden to Estonia Jun 19 2009

Estonian shipping line Tallink says it will give free lifetime travel to a baby born on a cruise ferry en route from Sweden to Estonia last week.Read

Unemployed man who stood next to busy motorway junction with a sandwich board over his shoulders saying he was looking for work has found a job Jun 19 2009

An unemployed man who stood next to a busy motorway junction with a sandwich board over his shoulders saying he was looking for work has found a job, a company said.Read

Controversial anatomist Gunther von Hagens reveals a new exhibit - a couple having sex Jun 19 2009

Controversial anatomist Gunther von Hagens, who was behind the Body Worlds displays of corpses, revealed a new exhibit - a couple having sex.Read

Woman mistakenly throws out million dollar mattress Jun 11 2009

An Israeli woman mistakenly threw out a mattress she said had almost one million US dollars inside, setting off a frantic search through tons of rubbish at a number of landfill sites today.Read

Millionth word or phrase in the English language been named as "Web 2.0" Jun 11 2009

The millionth word or phrase in the English language has been named as “Web 2.0” - but experts disputed whether the term really justified that title.Read

Doctors stitch man's severed ear to his stomach in a bid to save it Jun 11 2009

A man who had one of his ears cut off when he was attacked in a park has described how doctors stitched it to his stomach in a bid to save it.Read

Council apologises for sending gravestone bill to a man who died in 1998 Jun 11 2009

A council has apologised after sending a £440 gravestone bill to a man who died more than a decade ago.Read

Brad Pitt to stop traffic in Siberia Jun 11 2009

Brad Pitt is accustomed to stopping passers-by in their tracks. The Hollywood heartthrob’s next job is slowing traffic in Siberia - or so Russian traffic police hope.Read

Clumsy forger found innocent of counterfeit by reason of incompetence Jun 11 2009

An Argentine man who tried to use two counterfeit notes has been found innocent, by reason of incompetence.Read

Man discovers black widow spider among his belongings Jun 10 2009

A man spoke of his shock after discovering a deadly spider had made a transatlantic journey hiding among his belongings.Read

£916,000 Bus lane opens Jun 10 2009

A bus lane that cost £1,300 a yard to install has sparked criticism.Read

World record for largest number of people dressed as Smurfs smashed in Swansea nightclub Jun 10 2009

The world record for the largest number of people dressed as Smurfs has been smashed.Read

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