Snake's golf balls fetch $1400
Four golf balls swallowed by an unlucky carpet python and removed from its gut in a world-first operation have sold for $1401 in an online auction.
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If you speak Spanish, Italian or Korean and long to watch your daily dish of news from a disrobed announcer, you're in luck.
Woman, 33, disguised as boy, 13
Search for missing boy exposes case in which woman spent four months posing as schoolboy.
Conman steals $22,000 from bank chairman
A fraudster has conned $22,000 out of Britain's Barclays bank by posing as the bank's chairman and taking cash from his account.
Dog survives leap into tiger pit
Dog chased by US zoo workers survives mauling after leap into tiger enclosure.
Jail after cow's head sent to love rival
An American man who mailed a bloody cow's head to his wife's lover has been sentenced to probation and community service.
Dog shoots goose hunter dead
An overexcited dog accidentally shot its owner dead on a Texas hunting trip.
Man using GPS drives into path of train
A GPS unit can tell a driver a lot of things - but not when a train is coming.
Giant knickers put out house fire
A pair of outsize cotton underpants doused in water stopped a family home in Britain from burning down over the New Year holiday.
Stone the crows, who's responsible for this heist?
"Stone the crows", said judicial officers after the thieves had been fingered.
Snake eats four golf balls
Now that's a rough lie. A carpet python has been operated on by Gold Coast vets to remove four golf balls from its intestine.
One-legged bank robber caught running away
A one-legged man who robbed a bank in Hamburg was apprehended after being pursued by staff members, police in the northern German port said.
Cat serial killer 'on the loose'
A serial cat killer who mutilates and tortures pets and stray animals may be on the loose in Hong Kong, animal welfare groups warned today.
Man found stuck upside down in septic tank
It was a stinky holiday for Robert Schoff.
Santas too full of Christmas spirit
A gang of about 50 apparently drunken Santas invaded a New Zealand cinema complex at the weekend - frightening customers, damaging property and swearing, the cinema's manager said today.
$1m 'Forrest Gump' boy ripped off: mother
Mother of India's "Forrest Gump" child marathon runner accuses trainer of stealing fortune.
'Shawshank' breakout duo leave note
Two US prisoners escape through hole in cell wall covered with pin-up photos.
Hospital workers suspended for stealing bodies
Three hospital workers have been suspended on suspicion of stealing bodies from a morgue at the Vienna clinic and trying to sell them, officials said.
Caught short with hole in fence and playful puppy
A drunken Cambodian reveller received an unexpected lesson in why not to urinate in public when his wedding tackle was mauled mid-stream by a playful puppy as he relieved himself through a fence, local media reported today.
Bummer! Man accidentally shoots his own bottom
An American man inadvertently shot himself in the buttocks on Thursday morning.
