WEIRD IS THE WORLD: Family Flees ‘Haunted House,’ Sues Landlord

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Family Flees ‘Haunted House,’ Sues Landlord
A New Jersey couple is suing their landlord for a refund after they said paranormal activity caused them to flee their rental home.
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New Coke machine takes hugs instead of money
A new Coca-Cola machine at the National University of Singapore dispenses free beverages in exchange for hugs.
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Group of pensioners re-starts youth club from the 1940s after meeting again at funerals
The 21 former members of the club in Woolston, Southampton, who are now in their 80s, decided to revive it after meeting again at funerals.
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‘He Enjoyed Booze, Guns, Cars, and Younger Women Until the Day He Died’: Unrepentant Obituary Deemed ‘Best Ever’'
Penned by Blanchard before his death, the obituary notes, among other things, that Blanchard was “weary of reading obituaries noting someone’s courageous battle with death.” Rather, he wanted it known that he “died as a result of being stubborn, refusing to follow doctor’s orders and raising hell for more than six decades.”
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Daring rock chick Miley Cyrus wears gaping Iron Maiden T-shirt and no bra
The 19-year-old star exposed her part of her modesty as she opted to go bra-less for the outing in Calabasas.
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Norwegian mass killer Breivik to argue 'self-defense' when trial begins Monday
Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik plans to argue that his July 2011 shooting spree -- in which he killed 77 people, most of them teenagers -- was carried out in self-defense when his trial begins Monday.
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TV shows made into movies: Hits and misses
Moe, Larry and Curly are back in the new Farrelly Brothers' movie, "The Three Stooges." The trio has been getting laughs on the small screen with re-runs of their old shorts for the past 60 years.
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Vatican: no secrets in girl's '83 disappearance
The Vatican insisted Saturday it has done everything possible to try to resolve the 1983 disappearance of an employee's teenage daughter and has no objections to allowing inspection of the basilica tomb of a reputed mobster from a gang purportedly linked to her presumed kidnapping.
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Four-year-old Heidi Hankins joins Mensa with 159 IQ
A four-year-old girl from Hampshire has been accepted into Mensa with an IQ just one point below Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking.
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So what really happened to the man who auctioned his life on eBay after his wife left him?
'We found him sitting on the end of a rickety wooden jetty, marvelling at a glorious Caribbean sunset as he cooled his feet in the turquoise waters of his own private lagoon. ...'
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Forget the Mile-High Club, Try the Mile-Engagement Club
-Launched in January, wemetonaplane.com has posted thousands of stories from more than 60 countries.
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Winnipegger tweets marriage proposal
It was the proposal heard round the world.
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Little boy lost finds his mother using Google Earth
An Indian boy who lost his mother in 1986 has found her 25 years later from his new home in Tasmania - using satellite images.
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Wedding day horror as bolting horse throws bride, groom and daughter, 4, from carriage into path of traffic on way to reception
It was just an hour after they married in Wakefield, West Yorkshire
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US man creates caskets that can multi-task
A Minnesota woodworking business wants people to think outside the box when planning a funeral.
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Hacker busted - by photo of his girlfriend's boobs
A hacker who published the personal details of hundreds of police officers was unmasked — by a picture of his girlfriend’s boobs.
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