My First Dictionary Introduce your young'uns early to the strangeness, quiet misery and despair that are modern living.

Prawo Jazdy Ireland's worst driver? Or not. An embarrassing moment for the Guards.

World's First Garbage Truck Powered by Garbage A town in Britain has recently demonstrated its new "'leccy vehicle" - an electric garbage truck that is fueled by the garbage it collects.

Indian project one-ups OLPC with ten dollar laptop The laptop was developed by students at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore and will be distributed as part of the National Mission on Education. more inside

John Martyn dies aged 60, though he surprised many by making it this far after some hard living, interspersed musically with some beautiful songs, an album of searing emotional honesty and a willingness to experiment.

We have identified the man to blame for the current global financial crisis and apparently it's David Bowie.

Child elopers' Africa plan foiled Bless.

Burglar scared off by man dressed as Thor

Wishing you all a Communist Christmas [Flash animation; music] That Santa wore red and had a beard like Marx you know.

Mystery jelly engulfs Scotland Well, OK, pops up a bit all over the countryside.

Man mails himself out of prison

Raiders make off with bull semen more inside

Last of Albania's 'sworn virgins' "Almost eight decades on, Qamile Stema still remembers clearly the day she decided to give up her long hair and dresses in order to become the male head of her household." Burrnesha are women that take a vow to remain virgins for their entire life so that they can be viewed as men in the highly patriarchal Albanian society.

Jackie Chan brings peace to warring kungfu clans in Timor-Leste. Over to you, I think, Mr Herzog.

Using Lego to patch up ancient buildings around Rome. It's art, y'see.

White lion cubs delight zoo crowds [flash video] by doing delightful things whilst being small, furry and raw with squee.

The Ladybird Book of The Policeman Meet Pc Brian Plectrum, the world's tallest copper, and his colleagues in this educational and informative children's classic.

Johnnie Worker Red Labial Oh dear.

A slaver enslaved not that it learned him.

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