A dwarf performer at the Edinburgh fringe festival had to be rushed to hospital after his penis got stuck to a vacuum cleaner during an act that went horribly awry. Daniel Blackner, or Captain Dan the Demon Dwarf, was due to perform at the Circus...

A SOUTH Melbourne brothel is trying to lure back customers discouraged by rising fuel costs by providing a discount if they produce their petrol receipt. The Pink Palace is giving clients 30 cents off their bill for every litre of petrol they buy...

A Dutch priest has been fined 5,000 euro ($A8,220) for ringing his church bells too loudly in the morning. The Catholic priest began ringing the bells at just after seven in the morning soon after arriving in Tilburg about six months ago...

It is a name that any Z-list celebrity would be proud to have dreamt up for their new baby. But when Pat and Sheena Wheaton tried to register their son's name as 4Real, officials rejected it because it contains a number. Their second choice -Superman.

A well-built man was forced to take a drugs test in Stockholm recently after a police officer assumed that muscles like his could only have been developed with the help of illegal substances. The female assistant police officer got into a conversation...

An Australian woman thought she was cactus when a hostie got her back up over some classic Aussie slang during a flight in the United States. "Fair dinkum," NSW woman Sophie Reynolds muttered when told by a air hostess that there were no pretzels...

Instead of Spiderman or Bratz dolls, children in the US could soon be clutching a talking Jesus toy, a bearded Moses or a muscle-bound figure of Goliath. From the middle of August, Wal-Mart, the biggest toy retailer in the US, will for the first time...

Imagine having a piggy bank which you put all your money into and then every three years when you threaten it with a hammer, it gives most of it back... you didn't smash it with the hammer and you get to keep the pig another three years and do it again,

Villagers unearthed the first case of 15 bottles about 15 years ago. Since then, digs have yielded several cognac caches, usually of about two dozen bottles each. The old-fashioned cognac bottles can fetch up to nearly $7,000 from collectors...

It all started innocently enough this spring, when Mark Malkoff asked a barista at 54th and Broadway how many Starbucks there were in Manhattan. She didn't know, nor did any of the employees he asked. Turns out, there are 176 stores in Manhattan...