A Premier League footballer accelerated to 112mph to escape what he thought were fans from his team’s bitter rivals - only to discover it was the police.Read
A planeload of Israeli rabbis and Jewish mystics held an airborne prayer meeting in the belief that it could help check the spread of swine flu in Israel, an Israeli newspaper reported.Read
Major tourist attraction Alton Towers banned Speedos and other types of tight swimming trunks at its Staffordshire site on grounds of taste.
The trunks are favoured by the likes of Rod Stewart and soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo.Read
The venerable boards of the Royal Opera House (ROH) could soon be trodden by a hero imprisoned in a tower by birds hell-bent on revenge, a talking ginger cat and a mysterious woman with no name working in a biochemistry laboratory.Read
An obese prisoner in Harris County, Texas, was charged with illegal possession of a firearm after he smuggled a 9mm pistol in between his rolls of fat.Read
An airline flight that went off course on a trip from Honolulu to Hilo last year happened because the cockpit crew were tired and one had undiagnosed sleep apnoea, investigators said.Read
