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A prisoner wrapped himself in a large parcel and posted himself to freedom from a jail in Austria. Bosnian Muradif Hasanbegovic, 36, was ser...

The Games of the Nineteenth Olympiad were the highest and most controversial ever held. Staged at 7,349 feet above sea level where the thin ...

Two 13-year-olds and a 14-year-old have been arrested on suspicion of a string of bank robberies in Canada. Police in Vancouver arrested the...

A cyclist travelled 335,500 miles on the same bike - only for it to be stolen as soon as he arrived in Britain. German-born Heinz Stucke bou...

Florida grandmother was attacked by a 5ft alligator - and fought it off with a hosepipe. Connie Gittles, 74, thought it was just a snake whe...

Jared Guinther is 18. Tall and lanky, he will graduate from high school in June. Girls think he's cute, until they try to talk to him an...

Welsh couple had a run of three lucky lottery wins in one week, ending in a £2.5 million jackpot. First, deputy headteacher Jenny Cooper won...

A granny has won over thirteen million dollars on a five cent slot machine. Josephine Crawford was down to her last few coins when she hit t...

The Beerbelly - a secret strap-on beer holder that disguises itself as a bulging beer belly - is being marketed in the US. It was the brainc...

A Croatian man found the skeleton of a Nazi soldier while sifting through a bag of soil for his new garden. Bruno Marincic had bought the so...

Britain's international intelligence service is advertising for new real life James Bonds. MI6 chiefs are placing ads in The Times newsp...

It is long past time we stopped giving a free pass to organizations that refuse to be guided by reason and would force their unreason on the...

shafarism - standing for secularism, humanism, atheism, free thought, agnosticism, and rationalism. Shafars are 850 million people around th...

Easter Monday, April 24, 1916, a force of Irishmen under arms estimated at between 1,000 and 1,500 men and women attempted to seize Dublin, ...