Weird News

BERLIN (AP) -- Outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel provided a rare splash of color amid Germany's staid election campaign while visiting a bird park where she posed with half a dozen parrots.

BURRILLVILLE, R.I. (AP) -- Not afraid of ghosts and things that go bump in the night?

MORICHES, N.Y. (AP) -- A bull that escaped from a farm on Long Island and eluded searchers for two months has been captured, authorities said Thursday.

BOSTON (AP) -- A group of high school students in Massachusetts had to ride on a party bus complete with a stripper pole and neon lights during a recent field trip -- an experience their teacher said highlights problems with the education system.

BERLIN (AP) -- German police say they have solved a burglary case at a kindergarten after a storytelling gadget the suspect had swiped revealed his location.

TOKYO (AP) -- Guinness World Records has certified two Japanese sisters as the world's oldest living identical twins at 107, in an announcement Monday coinciding with Respect for the Aged Day, a national holiday in Japan.

BOSTON (AP) -- Boston's famous Skinny House has sold for a nice fat price.

BANGKOK (AP) -- Taxi fleets in Thailand are giving new meaning to the term "rooftop garden," as they utilize the roofs of cabs idled by the coronavirus crisis to serve as small vegetable plots.

A white catfish caught in Connecticut last month has smashed a state record and could also be a world record for the species -- though the evidence has been eaten.

ROCKLAND, Maine (AP) -- When Virginia Oliver started trapping lobster off Maine's rocky coast, World War II was more than a decade in the future, the electronic traffic signal was a recent invention and few women were harvesting lobsters.

Turns out cows can be potty trained as easily as toddlers. Maybe easier.

VIENNA (AP) -- Ethiopia's Derara Hurisa was disqualified for wearing the wrong shoes after winning the Vienna Marathon on Sunday.

BERLIN (AP) -- Is anyone missing an ostrich?

Beards aren't just cool and trendy -- they might also be an evolutionary development to help protect a man's delicate facial bones from a punch to the face.

CALLAHAN, Fla. (AP) -- A Florida man won $1 million in a lottery game the same day he and his wife opened an auto repair shop.

RIVERHEAD, N.Y. (AP) -- An employee cost a New York county at least $6,000 in electricity bills by allegedly secretly installing dozens of machines at his workplace in a cryptocurrency scheme, authorities said Wednesday, announcing charges against him.

FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) -- A man fed up with a private road in poor condition near his southwest Florida business has a novel solution: plant a banana tree in a pothole to warn motorists away.

PARIS (AP) -- Jean-Pierre Adams, the former France and Paris Saint-Germain defender who spent 39 years in a coma, has died. He was 73.

GUIDONIA MONTECELIO, Italy (AP) -- Identical twins, identical results.

ROME (AP) -- Border police at Rome's main airport on Sunday prevented a Naples tobacco shop owner suspected of running off with a customer's winning game ticket from boarding a flight to the Canary Islands, Italian news reports said.