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- Two thousand and strange: offbeat stories of the year
- Calif. family finds $10,000 in box of crackers
- Wolf captured near tourist part of Great Wall
- The Worst Predictions About 2008
- Scenic Pakistani valley falls to Taliban militants
- China girl at inauguration
- Hong Kong university criticised for dropping UFO course
- Drunk father kills himself playing Russian roulette in front of family on Christmas Day
- Triple whammy: Three little girls born to mum who was on the Pill
- Wife burn her husband's penis 'so it belongs to me and no one else'
- Man gets 3 days' detention for smoking on train in China
- CHINA MAN WINS FIRST MASS FLAMING CASE - Her 'death blog' led to hubby's virtual lynching
- Snake bursts after gobbling gator
- India seeks tallest cake record
- 'Ridiculous' 999 calls revealed
- Orangutans learn to trade favours
- Tangled web of spider evolution
- Pair of tombs discovered in Egypt
- Five stab deaths a week - Tories
- Palestinian jailed for 30 years
- World-famous tweens
- Child maids being exported
- US' oldest man dies at 112
- Boy, 8, found dead in home
- Tourism trouble for Phuket
- Giant ice penis - is climate change to blame?
- U.S. hands over Viagra pills to Afghan warlords in return for vital Taliban intelligence
- UK students told: Behave and win TVs, iPods
- Honey, I've lost you in a game of cards
- Give me a sandwich and 'ice kachang'
- 'Harajuku for grannies'
- No F-22 fighters for Japan?
- Now hair's a funny thing, this man is 80!
- Hiss is bliss at snake spa
- He kicks boy to death for not doing homework
- DM Hospital Greets 11 Sets Of Twins
- UPS Driver Used "Terrorist" As Name Signed For Package
- Nato help sought to guard graves
- Taleban 'will kill school girls'
- Philippine rebels to release captured army officer
- Malaysia uses satellite to fight illegal logging
- Iraqi prison break drama ends with Qaeda escapee killed, two arrests
- China toughens school quake standards
- Chechen girl strangler 'released'
- Sex shop shooting 'follows row'
- Russia may cut off Ukraine's gas
- Woman faked missing baby story to win back ex
- Man shoots talker at movies
- Man accused of smuggling mummies
- Coral springs back from tsunami
- China begins anti-piracy mission
- Philippines communists mark 40th
- 'Stink' attack on Japan's whalers
- Australia father 'taken by shark'
- Israel takes bloody revenge: More than 200 killed in Gaza strikes to halt Hamas rockets
- Mom accused of smoking marijuana with teen kids
- Wolf captured near tourist part of Great Wall
- Zookeepers put Nepal's tubby tigers on a diet
- M'sia's former king dies
- Judge refuses to annul child marriage
- Killed after he wouldn't pay for birthday bash
- Pet soup kitchens opens
- Floods may follow ice in US
- Car bomb kills 22 in Baghdad
- MP3 player guides rescuers
- Late airport workers suspended
- New Indonesian election rules
- The apple of Mummy's eye: Queen's salute to Charles as vintage movie is unveiled
- Single male rhino, 20, seeks mate to save species
- Mexico drug bust at cock fight
- Dog steals from Utah store
- Phone confessions banned
- Amazon says 2008 holiday season was 'best ever'
- Asia at risk of mega-disasters
- Taiwan Ex-President Lee Teng-hui faces probe
- World's biggest refinery hub
- 5,000 punished for corruption
- Australian 'mummy smuggler' arrested in Cairo
- Sacked for dozing at meeting
- Thousands attend traditional Christmas hunts
- Obama is most admired American: poll
- New sex law brings problems
- Saudis beheaded for raping man
- SANTA SHOOTS
- Avoiding the painkiller-overuse rut in migraines
- FDA warns against some diet pills sold on the Web
- Hope and disappointment four years on from Asian tsunami
- Ten million music tracks remain unsold online
- Hats off! Zara steals the show at royal Christmas Day church service
- No more heroes, no golden age: the Archbishop of Canterbury to deliver blunt Christmas sermon
- Embarrassment for Bush as he is forced to withdraw a pardon 24 hours after issuing it
- Outrage over Channel 4 broadcast of Iranian president's 'dangerous' alternative Christmas message
- 'Christmas miracle' as woman is found buried alive in snow - THREE days after going missing
- Mother takes photo of 'angel' in hospital as daughter on life- support makes miraculous recovery
- Woman jailed for life after murdering husband just 33 DAYS after their wedding
- Pictured: The moment emotional Barack Obama scattered his grandmother's ashes into the sea close to
- Wave of the future: The dancing spider-like cruiser that can take 12 people on a 5,000-mile journey
- Why fewer murder cases get solved
- Lucky Aussie cat lands on feet after 34-storey fall
- Military center tracking Santa's sleigh ride
- Nakagin Capsule Tower Looks to be From the Future, But Probably Won't Make it There
- Wife foils pistol-whip robbery gang as she feigns a heart attack
- Woman who did not know she was pregnant gives birth just 10 minutes after rush to hospital .........
- Bush pardons man who helped Israel during wartime
- The £5billion debt nightmare of problem gamblers
- Investor who lost $1.4B to Madoff kills himself
- Mexican beauty queen arrested in gun-filled truck
- Let it snow China builds "world's largest" ice Santa
- Taleban reject peace reports
- Chinese arrested for fake uniforms and starch scam
- Sexual torture, murder on tape
- Two Britons charged with manslaughter of 121 who died in 2005 Athens air crash
- Death plunge model's life 'was shattered by womanising of three times married husband'
- 'Baby Jesus' stolen
- Little Oliver is a real Christmas miracle after two-year-old beats overwhelming odds to survive
- What Christmas truce? Carol service for our troops on the Afghan frontline ends with a blast .......
- California lesbian gang raped
- Shirtless Obama Pic Causes A Stir
- Mass. man melting snow with blowtorch ignites home
- Vietnam to watch for protests
- Hillary Clinton plans a more powerful State Dept: NY Times
- Police probe assault on 50 "witches"
- Man tries to go home for holidays — by fire truck
- Scientists doubt inventor's global cooling idea _ but what if it works?
- Koala mating captured via cell phone
- A rubbish life for LA marathon recycler
- S'pore-based workers conned
- Rare rhinos found in Java
- Abhisit warns of fake notes
- Malaysia aims to double its wild tiger population
- Vietnam customs seize five tons of frozen pangolin meat
- Thai king urges new cabinet to bring peace
- Japan asked US prepare for nuclear strike on China: archives
- Malaysian minister praises Iraqi shoe-thrower
- Man faces life for rape of daughter, posting on Internet
- Up to 6,000 child soldiers recruited in Darfur: U.N.
- Coup in Guinea follows president's death
- Official says Calif. could be broke in 2 months
- Earthly organisms developed in two sets of fits and starts: study
- Giant 'woodlice' take up residence in Britain
- Gold coins found in Jerusalem
- Year-old baby raped: Two held
- Mob beats up unlucky robber
- Hole in oneself: Golfer shot
- British ex-royal servant jailed
- Tougher laws for hackers - Chinese hackers to face up to seven years in jail: report
- M'sian nude protest called off
- Police banned from climbing a 3ft ladder without training
- Blind man completes obstacle course without help in landmark experiment
- Stressed Japanese workers smash plates to ease recession blues
- Robber betrayed by stutter
- 'Kopi reggae' restores...
- Lost World discovered (thanks to Google Earth)
- Parents warned not to 'hang baubles on Christmas tree' in leaflet issued by Ed Balls' staff
- What's up Doc? Meet Vincent the rabbit born without ears
- Lonely man jumps into polar bear's cage in Berlin
- Malaysia: No to lessons in English
- 4,300-year-old tombs discovered near Cairo
- Shoppers haggle for deals from desperate retailers
- South Africa should cut off Zimbabwe electricity: Australian ex-PM
- Five found guilty of plotting to kill Fort Dix soldiers
- Hong Kong man dies metres away from hospital
- MAGIC TRICK TURNS TRAGIC - Copperfield's helper slashed by giant fan
- Males dominated 'out-of-Africa' migration 60,000 years ago
- DRAMA CRASH IN KL - Car falls from flyover, crushes food stall
- Thai woman sets new world record... for holding scorpion in her mouth
- Maid forced into prostitution
- Mom accused of smoking marijuana with teen kids
- The Planet Gets Cooler in '08. Say What?
- A Japanese Town That Kicked the Oil Habit
- Winners share $3 billion in Spain's Gordo lottery
- Two Chinese giant pandas head for Taiwan
- 12 decapitated bodies found in southern Mexico
- Post Office puts buffer between kids and 'Santas'
- Blood from mosquito traps Finnish suspect
- Diamond in the rough: Museum finds vacuumed gem
- What did mama say?
- Homeless people will eat caviar this Christmas after Italian officials seized a batch from smugglers
- Mugabe's genocide: The images of despair that reveal the full horror of Zimbabwe
- 'Merchant of Death' Russian arms dealer pleads with Thai court: 'Don't send me to the U.S.'
- Mugabe is 'losing his mind': Zimbabwe's leader branded 'impossible' by Britain and 'mad' by U.S.
- Pete the purple squirrel leaves animal lovers baffled
- Pictured: Blazing Boeing 737 torn in half - but all 115 people escape alive
- Fifteen more retail giants 'will go bust next month' in wake of Woolworths collapse
- Where'd the bailout money go? Shhhh, it's a secret
- Man eats 7 pounds of latkes to win NY contest
- English lessons to foreigners (Jurong)
- Beethoven's hair turned into £500k diamond
- Pig named animal of the year
- New definition of seawater
- Chicago sheriff baits fugitives with holiday ruse
- Pictured: Desperate Chinese sailors fight off Somali pirates with beer bottles and Molotov cocktails
- Sarah Palin left red faced again after her pregnant daughter's future mother-in-law is arrested
- ‘Bush Shoe’ Gives Firm a Footing in the Market
- Slashed for sleeping with landlord's wife
- Minerals found on Mars suggests life could have survived on Red Planet
- Six Brits arrested and fined for playing BINGO at Turkish holiday resort
- UK docs: 10 hospitalised for Wii injuries weekly
- Saudi court rejects divorce plea from EIGHT-year-old girl married to 58-year-old man
- PC Konk the clown strip-searched by airport security guards - 'cause they thought he was a terrorist
- The 65-year-old light bulb that outlived Woolworths (and survived the Blitz)
- Gladiators set to return to Colosseum for first time in 2,000 years
- Meet the woman who makes her living as a professional MERMAID
- Broody dinosaur daddies looked after the eggs and passed on the habit to birds, say scientists
- Stolen cake sparks bank data alert in Germany
- Lawyers turn to Facebook to serve legal papers
- Alaskan state employees circulated racist e-mails about Obama
- Stellar Meteor Shower Jan. 3
- Grumpy miracle pig
- Doing the Hokey Cokey 'could be hate crime'
- what mother could do such a thing?
- Bar of wonder, bar of lights: The pub decked out in £10,000 Christmas decorations
- Chinese man hangs girlfriend out the window in lovers' quarrel
- Cyberbullies being sued
- Drug smuggling takes off with flights
- Shocking study finds most will torture if ordered
- Wildlife experts ponder gender of Santa's reindeer
- Nuns sue NYC tenants over 'vomit-like' food smells
- Man finds cash in same store twice and returns it
- Lawyer arrested for giving client a piece of candy
- Bad economy? Try ha-ha yoga
- Cartoon porn is still porn
- Hong Kong diner orders water, gets bleach instead
- Tiger needs something extra in the tank
- Shepherd controls flock with wolf poster
- Tree man's roots begin to grow back
- Thoughts of sex 'can cause some people to sneeze'
- Shark jumps out of aquarium into swimming pool
- Policeman takes prosecutor hostage
- Hot gold puts Mich. postal worker in hot water
- Arkansas family welcomes 18th child, a girl
- Shooting victim goes to work with bullet in head
- Coke not the real thing when it comes to contraception: study
- Did you hear the one about the shopkeeper who was slapped with a police ban on his jokes?
- Did Multiple Moons Once Orbit Earth?
- Doctors warn new 'mad cow' strain could kill 350 Britons
- Doctor removes 'perfectly formed' FOOT growing inside baby's brain
- Gambling capital of the world Las Vegas blanketed in SNOW!
- 3D TV revolution: Sky promises images that leap out of the screen
- MPs blasted with fire extinguishers after trying to break into Parliament w hoses and sledgehammers
- World's first flying car on the roads from next year - yours for just £130,000
- Performing monkeys attack trainer in China
- Stop eating cats
- Brown draws laughs for "saving the world"
- Smell of football changing room made into aftershave
- Teenager listens to iPod while having brain surgery
- Scientists seek ways to ward off killer asteroids
- Barack Obama, Time's Person Of The Year, as you've never seen him before
- Family pushes their dog as next Illinois governor
- Santa gets parking ticket while delivering toys