It has been hailed as the first major development in bicycle design for 150 years. The Sideways Bike has a steerable wheel with a set of handlebars at either end.

Britney Spears' lopped-off locks can be yours for just $1 million on eBay _ direct from the salon owner whose clippers the shorn star used during her weekend meltdown.

Buster Martin, who is 100 years old, had not taken a day off sick in 90 years before his toenail disabled him last November.

Royal Mail officials admitted they were at a loss to explain why the post was nine decades late.

Radic pleaded guilty to betraying his flock and secretly selling the church and its rectory out from under them. He used the money to buy himself a brand new black BMW and a laptop -- exploits he later chronicled in a cheeky, almost gleeful blog about his

Villagers in southwestern China are scratching their heads over the county government's decision to paint an entire barren mountainside green.

Red-faced officials at Canada's nuclear safety watchdog on Thursday said they were probing how a hacker had managed to litter its official Web site with dozens of colour photographs of a nuclear explosion.

It was just a normal shopping trip when Jaeyana Beuraheng bade farewell to her eight children as she left to cross the border into Malaysia. But it would be 25 years before she would find her way home.

A couple of weeks ago Sir David Attenborough went on the BBC -- an Establishment double act that's hard to top -- and explained exactly what global warming would mean for Britain.

A great deal of work has gone into establishing the correct wolf framework. Officials from my department have travelled to Atlantic City, to be briefed by executives of Big Nice Wolf Inc and the Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Prescott, has been engaged in cons