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Russians urged to drink and smoke more to help the economy

Alexei Kudrin, Russia’s finance minister, has rather bizarrely urged Russians to drink and smoke more – to help the government’s cash flow.

Alexei Kudrin has urged his fellow Russians to crack open the tinnies and light up (Reuters)
Politicians usually urge citizens to adopt healthier lifestyles, but Mr Kudrin has called for [...]

43-yr-old virgin wraps barbed wire around her leg so she won’t have sex

A 43-year-old virgin has revealed how she fastens a wire chain around her upper thigh every night to ensure she remains celibate.

A cilice: Wearing one will make you feel all warm inside, apparently (Corbis)
Sarah Cassidy, a Manchester University physics graduate, is a senior female figure in Opus Dei, the controversial Catholic [...]

The Truth

Caterpillars line up for Africa’s shortest migration

It may not match some of Africa’s more famous mass migrations, such as the sight of thousands of wildebeest crossing the vast Serengeti plain. But this remarkable, if somewhat shorter, march over a dirt track by more than 100 caterpillars still had tourists marvelling at the wonders of nature.
The caterpillars follow a [...]

Unicorn cow becomes tourist attraction

Farmer Jia Kebing noticed a small bump on this cow’s forehead when it was born two years ago but didn’t expect it to grow into a 20cm (8in) horn.

Unicorn cow stuns farmer in China
‘My farm is famous in this region for this cow and people come in here just to see it,’ [...]

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Man burns himself and almost blows up bathroom chasing a spider

A husband who tried to ‘save’ his wife from a scary spider ended up needing treatment for burns after nearly blowing up his bathroom.

Spiders: probably not worth blowing your bathroom up for
Christopher Robinson was ‘encouraged’ by his wife, Janine, to chase the arachnid – but failed to flush out the eight-legged beast when [...]

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Internet hunt for puppy killer woman

An internet hunt is under way to trace a woman filmed appearing to
throw puppies in a river.
Smiles: The film shows the female laughing as she tosses the animals into the fast-flowing river

A video shows the female seeming to pick live animals from a bucket and chuck them in the water.
Squealing can apparently be [...]

Doctor dies sliding down lover’s chimney

A doctor in America who tried to sneak into her lover’s house by climbing down his chimney got stuck – and her decomposing body was only found three days later.

Dr. Jacquelyn Kotarac, who died after getting stuck in her lover’s chimney
49-year-old Dr. Jacquelyn Kotarac was reportedly involved in an ‘on-again, off-again’ [...]

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World Bog Snorkelling Championships sees records sunk

The 25th annual World Bog Snorkelling Championships saw records being demolished, after the bogs were cleaned out for the first time in a decade.
A competitor dressed as a (not very convincing) Dalek tries to crawl out of the bog after finishing the course in the World Bog Snorkelling Championships (Picture: Athena)
163 competitors [...]

Angry naked man wields spanner

Livid Chinese mechanic De Tseng went nuts when he was laid off – and stripped down to his toolbox to hammer home his discontent.
That’s one cheeky protest from De Tseng (CEN)
It has to rank among one of the most bizarre protests Metro.co.uk’s Weird Towers has ever found.
It’d be easy to surmise that he [...]

Shot man finds bullet in head five years on

A Polish man shot in Germany finds a bullet in his head five years on – as he was drunk when it happened.
Not tonight love, I’ve got a headache: X-ray shows the bullet in the man’s cranium (Pic: POLIZEI BOCHUM/AFP/Getty Images)
The 35-year-old in Bochum, west Germany, visited doctors to have a lump [...]

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