USA:An Indiana woman is under investigation after her husband’s corpse was left in their home for more than nine months and fed on by birds, authorities said.

ENGLAND: A charity fundraiser ran 75km non-stop from Norwich to Great Yarmouth and back again without realising he had a broken foot.

COLOMBIA: A self-declared chocolate addict has been sentenced to five months in one of Colombia’s harshest prisons for swiping $8 (€5.90) worth of bars.

England: A pair of sloths have speeded up their usual slow dating game to produce London Zoo’s first baby sloth.

USA: US special operations forces may be a few years away from donning a similar suit to the film character Iron Man, one that can monitor the user’s vital signs, give them real-time battlefield information and be bulletproof from head to toe-

USA: A cat that became famous for saving a California boy from a dog attack threw the first pitch at a Bakersfield Blaze minor league baseball game — or at least she tried-

China: Two giant pandas born in the US have arrived safely at their new home in China.

USA: A Pennsylvania man charged with breaking into a neighbour’s house says he was only borrowing eggs to make breakfast-

USA: A man claiming to be God slammed a stolen landscaping truck into a Baltimore-area television station, then spent hours watching live TV news footage of the scene before he was arrested by local authorities-

A criminal investigation has been launched into breaches of hygiene at a cheese factory after footage of bare-chested workers bathing in vats of milk went viral on the internet.

USA: A stuffed armadillo that serves as an on-stage mascot for country music legend Willie Nelson has been returned after being kidnapped from a Las Vegas-area show.

UK: A couple have held their wedding reception at the pizza restaurant where they had their first date 14 years ago.

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