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The world has a new shortest man

Following the sad passing of He Pingping in March this year the fight has been on to be named as the world’s shortest man. Khagendra Thapa Magar from Nepal and Lin Yih-Chih of Taiwan both threw their hats into the ring, but today Guinness World of Records confirmed that it is 24-year-old Colombian Edward Nino Hernandez [...]

Sonya Thomas sets new chicken wing record

Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas soared to victory at yesterday’s National Buffalo Wing Eating Championship. The slim 43-year-old has now won the chicken wing eating event four years in a row, knocking aside the world’s number one ranked competitive eater Joey Chestnut and storming ahead to set a brand new world record. Thomas held on to her [...]

Judge Anderson is in the new Dredd movie

Good news for fans of Judge Dredd, telepathic PSI Judge Cassandra Anderson will be appearing in the forthcoming 3D adaptation of the comic book. American actress Olivia Thirlby has been cast as Anderson, despite being a brunette. Thirlby is best known for playing the best friend to Ellen Page’s character in the 2007 comedy-drama Juno. Obviously a [...]

‘The Sandman’ television show going into development

Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman comic books are set to become a television show, planning and development have begun the early stages. Warner Bros. Television are currently in negotiations with sister company DC Entertainment to acquire the rights to make a TV show of the comic. A movie version of the popular comics has long been anticipated, [...]

Youths urinate on pensioner

Antisocial yobs have drenched an old age pensioner in urine after she confronted them about their ghastly behaviour. 75-year-old Jean Gausden from Sheffield was climbing the stairs to her flat in a council housing block in Pitsmoor, Sheffield when she witnessed two youths urinating in the stairwell. When Miss Gausden called the two youths “filthy swines” [...]

Chestnut regains title at rib eating contest

Joey “Jaws” Chestnut masticated his way to victory last night at the World Rib Eating Championships held in Nevada. The eating contest is part of the Best in the West Nugget Rib Cook-off food festival held every year in Victorian Square, Sparks, Nevada. Chestnut previously took the title for this event back in 2008 when he [...]

Pat Bertoletti sets testicle eating record

Competitive eater Pat Bertoletti set a new record this weekend for eating deep fried bull’s gonads. Some of competitive eating’s top names turned out for the Isle Black Hawk Rocky Mountain Oyster Eating World Championship in Colorado on Saturday. The ‘Rocky Mountain Oysters’ are sliced and deep fried bull’s testicles and Bertoletti managed to consume an [...]

Man’s penis chiselled off

A man with connections to a murdered gangland enforcer was attacked at the roadside and his penis chopped off by assailants using hammers and chisels. 26-year-old Brian Hanlon was driving through Glasgow in the early evening on Sunday when his car was forced off the road and a gang of up to seven men set about [...]

World record pizza

Chef’s in Poland have created the world’s biggest pizza measuring 1.1km long! The enormous pizza was made this weekend at Błonia Commons, by chefs from Pizzeria Magillo. The pizza was made using three and a half tonnes of flour, 1,500 litres of tomato sauce and 1,600 kilos of mozzarella cheese. The tasty treat smashed the previous [...]

Two-headed turtle in Thailand

A two-headed turtle hatched in Thailand in July is thriving well and gaining weight. The green sea turtle was hatched on a Thai Navy conservation area in the Similan Islands and was supposed to be released into the wild, but as soon as marine biologist Kongkiat Kittiwattnawong of the Phuket Marine Biological Center noticed the turtle [...]

Amy Pond to die

Unconfirmed reports are flying around the interwebs saying that Doctor Who actress Karen Gillan will be leaving the show part way through the next series. Last week we reported that Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat had announced that the next series of the show would be split into two parts with half the episodes being shown [...]

The 2010 World Bog Snorkelling Championships

Around 140 people from right across Europe travelled to the muddy Waen Rhydd Peat Bog near Llanwrtyd Wells, mid Wales this weekend to compete in the 25th annual World Bog Snorkelling Championships. Snorkellers are encouraged to wear fancy dress outfits and are permitted to use goggles, facemasks and flippers but they are prohibited from using any [...]

World Gravy Wrestling Championships 2010

Today saw the 4th Annual World Gravy Wrestling Championships held in Lancashire. Hundreds of spectators and the country’s press gathered at the Rose ‘n’ Bowl pub in Stacksteads near Rossendale to witness what is fast becoming one of the North West’s premiere weird sporting events. Over 1,000 litres of gravy were produced for the tournament which pits [...]

Sylvester McCoy ‘Hobbit’ update

Sylvester McCoy has broken his silence on the Hobbit casting rumours surrounding him. We reported a few weeks ago that the former Doctor Who was in the running to play Bilbo Baggins in the forthcoming Hobbit movie, but this weekend the Scottish actor has dispelled those rumours and stated that he is not being cast as [...]

Doctor Who cut in two

Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat announced this morning that the next series of the show will be split into two parts with half the episodes going out in spring next year and the following half being broadcast months later in the autumn. Moffat claims that the pause halfway through the series is part of an amazing [...]

Palestinians make the world’s biggest qatayef dessert

Bakers in the city of Bethlehem in the Palestinian West Bank have set a new world record by making the biggest qatayef pancake in record time. The qatayef is an Arab pancake which is usually eaten during the month of Ramadan. The dessert is made from a batter like most pancakes and filled with sweet cheese [...]

‘Merlin’ returns in September

BBC’s magical fantasy drama Merlin will be back on British TV screens in September. The BBC have announced that the show will return for a third series on Saturday 11th September, and the new season will be set a year after the second series ended. Merlin producer Johnny Capps has said that there will be a brief [...]

Mother bites baby and abandons it at hospital

A 19-year-old Dallas woman has been arrested for biting her 5-week-old son all over his body and dumping him at hospital. Danielle Patrice Lewis is currently being held in a Dallas jail, charged with injury to a child after her son was found to have a long list of injuries, including bite marks. The police report [...]

Violent criminal emasculates himself to avoid extradition

A violent criminal has attempted to avoid extradition from Spain this week by slicing off his own penis. The unnamed 52-year-old from Kazakhstan had just completed a five year prison sentence for a violent crime and was being sent back to his native country. Whilst waiting to board an aeroplane at Madrid’s Barajas airport the man [...]

Judge Dredd fan film teaser trailer released

With the official Judge Dredd film starring Karl Urban to look forward to amateur director Steven Sterlacchini might have just picked the right time to create his own Dredd fan film. Sterlacchini has just posted a teaser trailer to his film Judge Minty, a Dredd spin-off which follows a veteran Judge as he takes the ‘Long [...]