An Air India flight headed for Mumbai overshot its destination and was halfway to Goa before its dozing pilots were woken out of a deep slumber by air traffic control, a report said. picked by aclister 1 week ago

Australia has overtaken the United States as the world's most obese nation, a new report says.

The report, Australia's Future Fat Bomb, says 26 per cent of adult Australians - almost 4 million people - are now obese picked by aclister 2 weeks ago

An exhibition by the Australian artist Mike Parr, which includes a film showing a live chicken being decapitated, has prompted a complaint to the RSPCA and a visit from police.

(Video not included) picked by aclister 3 weeks ago

The residents of a Romanian village knowingly voted in a dead man as their mayor in Sunday's municipal election, preferring him to his living opponent. picked by aclister 3 weeks ago

An Italian woman whose family kept her locked in a room for almost two decades after she was accused of becoming pregnant out of wedlock has been freed by police, authorities and media reports said. picked by aclister 3 weeks ago

A closely watched obscenity trial in Los Angeles federal court was suspended Wednesday after the judge acknowledged maintaining his own publicly accessible website featuring sexually explicit photos and videos. picked by aclister 3 weeks ago

After 105 witnesses and three months of evidence, a drug trial costing $1 million was aborted today when it emerged that jurors had been playing Sudoku since the trial's second week. picked by aclister 4 weeks ago

When it comes to toilets, there's a simple directional rule: everything goes downstream. When things move against the tide, then you have problems. picked by aclister 1 month ago

A 21-year-old driver has been booked for doing 263kmh (163 mph) in a 13-year-old car held together with cable ties. picked by aclister 1 month ago

About 50 cyclists - including Australian racer Kate Nichols, who was injured in a 2005 German road racing crash in which a teammate was killed - have been involved in a hit-and-run crash in Sydney this morning. picked by aclister 2 months ago

Two "unlucky" Sydney BASE jumpers were arrested soon after leaping from a city tower overnight, after they landed just metres from shocked police officers on a regular patrol of the city.

Note: George Street is Sydney's main street in the heart of the CBD picked by aclister 2 months ago

The story begins with rumors that a fixed income research analyst, had 'inappropriately relieved' himself in the office in protest at being given a piss-poor bonus...... picked by aclister 6 months ago

Seven-time formula one world champion Michael Schumacher shocked a cab driver by taking over the wheel in order to be on time for a flight.

Only in Deutschland!! picked by aclister 7 months ago

An American eBayer has auctioned off a week-old pancake for $338, claiming it contains images of Jesus and Mary. picked by aclister 8 months ago

Norway's largest erotic chain store was forced to change the labeling on products such as penis pasta, candy cuffs and chocolate body painting, to comply with Norwegian food regulations. picked by aclister 8 months ago

Australian doctors used an intravenous feed of vodka to keep an Italian tourist alive after he consumed large quantities of a poisonous substance. picked by aclister 9 months ago

An Adelaide man accidentally cut his hand off with a chainsaw and then put it in a fridge until help arrived

But he waited for 2 hours to contact help...... picked by aclister 1 year ago

Some people like dogs, some don't. Prominent among those who do not is the person who has been poisoning dogs in Hong Kong since 1989 picked by aclister 1 year ago

A cane toad the size of a small dog has been nabbed in the middle of a "breeding frenzy" in Darwin in the north of Australia. picked by aclister 1 year ago

Police closed the Sydney Harbour Bridge for half an hour, just so Mr Cheney could drive across it to have lunch with John Howard. picked by aclister 1 year ago