World Odd News

Twenty-five seniors at a university in Pennsylvania must prove they've lost weight in order to graduate this spring. The unusual requirement stems from a policy Lincoln University put in place fours ago: Incoming freshmen with a body mass index of...

Over the past two odd decades, there have been many dogs which have been featured in the Guinness book of world records for their extremities. Leading the list of such hounds is Hercules, an English Mastiff, which was inducted in...

The police of Russia’s Saratov region are investigating a bizarre death of a newborn girl. Most likely, the baby girl was killed by her own sister, who was just three years old. The tragedy happened while the parents of the...

Here are a couple of comments regarding one of the most-viewed articles I’ve ever written: “I have a small butterfly tattoo on my wrist which I recently got put on at the age of 58. God has changed me from...

Loneliness is a psychological phenomenon that effects differently on different people. Often referred as a “Silent Killer”, loneliness is a natural happening, at least once in a life time to all human beings. Human beings are social creatures. They need...

A friend forwarded me a email on these marzipan babies. “Thought you’d be as fascinated with these as I was. These are made with marzipan (almond paste and egg white)……. really unbelievable! While some of the faces may look “crafted”...

Police in Peru have uncovered a rather bizarre and sinister scheme that involved murdering people to extract their fat! Evidently the fat is drained off the dead and sold into the "black market" cosmetics industry. 3 men were arrested with...

Faiz Ahmed Faiz was born in 1911 at Sialkot and was educated at Lahore, where he studied English literature and philosophy. He began his career as a lecturer in English at Amritsar. After the second World War, he turned to...

It's time to kick the enemy out of our homes and our of our family's lives. My wife and I recently bought a 1920 Victorian home in Stephenville, Texas. We call it Vanderbilt Place and we run it as a...