QUIRKY WORLD ... Man driving bike in dark hits black cow, dies

USA: A 59-year-old man was killed when the motorcycle he was driving at night collided with a black cow on a blacktopped road.

Kansas Highway Patrol trooper Brant Birney said there were no witnesses when James Zordel hit the cow on a paved rural road about 10km south of Interstate 70 near Russell.

Zordel was driving in the roadway when the incident happened and it is not clear if he was speeding or if the cow suddenly appeared from the side of the road.