WEIRD IS THE WORLD: SAD

HEADLINE: World's Tallest Dog Loses Leg To Bone Cancer
SOURCE AND DATE OF CLIP: cbsnews.com 16.5.9
CAPTION: SAD

The world's tallest dog is battling bone cancer that forced the amputation of one of his front legs. Gibson stands 3 1/2-feet tall at the shoulder and is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records. The black and white great Dane from Grass Valley, Calif., stretches more than 7 feet tall when he stands on his hind legs.

HEADLINE: Bullet removed 42 years after woman shot
SOURCE AND DATE OF CLIP: news.com.au 16.5.9
CAPTION: Bullet Brain

DOCTORS in southwest China have successfully removed a bullet from a woman's head 42 years after she was shot, putting an end to decades of increasingly unbearable pain, state media reports.
Staff at a hospital in Chongqing municipality extracted the inch-long (2.5-centimetre) bullet from the right temple of He Wenying, 65, yesterday, the Chongqing News reported on its website.

She was hit by the ricocheting bullet during a gun battle between warring factions at the start of the Cultural Revolution, which lasted from 1966 to 1976.

Doctors initially told her that her wound was only superficial, but constant headaches and difficulty eating led to an x-ray in 1978 that revealed the bullet lodged near her right jaw and ear, it added.

HEADLINE: Lover's penis bite puts man in hospital
SOURCE AND DATE OF CLIP: news.com.au 15.5.9
CAPTION: Don't bite the penis that ....

A THAI woman bit her Belgian boyfriend's penis out of jealousy during sex, but doctors managed to save the nearly-severed organ, police and reports said on Friday.
The 56-year-old man was being treated in hospital for severe injuries after the incident early yesterday in the coastal resort of Pattaya, they said. "We still don't know the identity of the suspect or whether he wants her to be prosecuted,'' police Lieutenant Colonel Norwich Chulavanich said. The victim's penis was "severely bitten'' but not severed from his body, he said. ...