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PENIS CLOSES ROAD A large fake penis has caused a major terror alert in America. A key highway though Florida was closed after a driver spotted what looked like a pipe bomb under an overpass. Fearing terrorists were trying to blow up the structure, police closed Interstate 75 for an hour...

CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Canadian police were on the lookout on Friday for a tractor-trailer loaded with beef that was stolen overnight without trace. It is described as a large, white rig with a huge picture of a cow emblazoned on the side. The trailer, packed with C$200,000 (86,464...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's health ministry warned size-obsessed men on Friday to avoid trying to enlarge their penises with liquid injections, saying it could cause deformities. The warning followed media reports that male teenagers in central Thailand had rushed to have their penises...

DETROIT (Reuters) - A Michigan court apparently has ended the television career of a talking penis. A three-judge panel of the Michigan Court of Appeals declared that the talking penis, nicknamed Dick Smart, telling "purportedly humorous" jokes on a Grand Rapids, Michigan, public access cable...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A life-like prosthetic penis called the Whizzinator and other products promising to help illegal drug users pass urine tests provoked U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday to take legal action with subpoenas of manufacturers. Lawmakers objected to attempts to circumvent drug tests...

A mysterious outbreak of chlamydia, a bacterial infection which humans pass to each other through sex, is believed to be behind the death of a dozen penguins at the San Francisco Zoo. The illness turned the zoo's Magellanic penguin colony into a disease hot spot, sparking fatal respiratory...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - A newly-wed couple in Shanghai have filed a complaint against a local hotel after the groom broke his arm during bedroom fun and games. Yu Haitao and bride Fang Shuling were taking part in traditional tease-the-newly-weds celebrations when Yu tumbled off the bed breaking his...

OTTAWA (Reuters) - A pizza shop owner who forced former Canadian immigration minister Judy Sgro to resign by claiming she had offered to help him avoid deportation has admitted he lied and has apologised, Sgro said on Tuesday. Sgro quit her job in January after Harjit Singh filed an affidavit...

TORONTO (Reuters) - A truck hauling 2,000 cases of beer flipped over and unleashed a sea of suds onto Canada's busiest highway on Wednesday, in a scene that could have been lifted from the Canadian cliche handbook. The early morning accident brought rush hour traffic to a standstill on highway...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - A lazy worker, not a satanic cult, was responsible for severed goat heads that caused a scare at a Vancouver-area school, Canadian police said on Monday. Police were called in after goat heads were twice found on a bench outside a school in nearby...

croak...croak..ribbit..ribbit...KABOOOOOM! Toads in an area of northern Germany are being killed off by a mysterious disease - they are exploding. Thousands of the amphibians have died in recent days in a pond in Hamburg's Altona district, with their bodies swelling to bursting point. The...

TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese policeman returning from an evening's drinking has landed in hot water after climbing into a relaxing hot bath in someone else's house. The 21-year-old officer from Nara, western Japan, was arrested and charged with unlawful entry after being discovered late on...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - Police in a Vancouver suburb issued an unusual warning to drivers on Monday: If you run out fuel, do not lay down on the road to get assistance. Police were alerted to a man's body laying along the Trans Canada Highway in the predawn darkness only to...

ANGKOR, POO WAT A SMELL Bovine dung not good Cambodian police have been ordered to capture dozens of buffaloes and cows roaming the Angkor Wat temple because of the dung they are leaving among the ruins. Police say at least 30 buffaloes and 10 cows had been regularly meandering through the...

REVEALED: WEIRD INJURIES Lightning strikes down 50 More than 50 people were admitted to hospital after being struck by lightning in the past year and two people were injured by centipedes. These are just some of the reasons people went to hospital as revealed on a list of weird and wonderful...

SUCKER BUNGED UP NOSE Leech lived in nose for four weeks A leech slithered up the nose of a woman and stayed there for four weeks. The blood-sucking creature managed to get into the hiker's nostril while she washed her face in a stream. But the hapless host did not realise anything was...

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's top tax collector had the citizens of Ottawa up in arms on Friday morning when he announced a plan to force them to file their taxes electronically if they wanted a refund before Christmas. Revenue Minister John McCallum said on a local CBC radio show he was...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - New research from Canada suggests that a diet rich in fruits and vegetables may help prevent pancreatic cancer, a particularly deadly type of tumor. The findings, based on a comparison of 585 pancreatic cancer patients and about 4,779 adults without the disease...

YANGO (AFP) - A lactating woman in Myanmar has volunteered to breastfeed a pair of endangered Bengal tiger cubs recently born at a Yangon zoo and separated from their aggressive mother. The two-week-old cubs, a male and a female, were taken from their mother Noah Noah after she killed the third...

please dont kill meeee......im too young to die.... Thousands of seal hunters armed with clubs, rifles and spears are taking part in one of Canada's biggest ever culls. The hunt is expected to bring poor coastal communities millions of dollars but has been condemned by animal rights...