While laying flowers on a grave...
A Brazilian woman laying flowers in a cemetery was given the shock of her life when a man started digging himself out of a neighboring grave. The mourner heard some strange moaning and noticed the soil moving around in a neighboring plot. To her horror, a pair of arms emerged from the dirt and began waving about. “I was terrified,” said the woman, who ran off and called the police. Authorities dug the man out of the ground, and took him to the hospital. Police think the man was beaten up, thrown into an empty grave by his assailants, and partly covered with dirt.
Lady Gaga's space concert
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Lady Gaga is set to boldly go where no pop star has gone before and perform the first ever concert in space. The 27-year-old plans to blast off in a Virgin Galactic passenger spaceship in 2015, and sing one track as the craft cruises 62 miles above the earth. To make sure she can hit the right notes in zero gravity, the singer will spend a month in vocal training, a source told Us Weekly. Gaga has also “taken out a ridiculous life insurance policy,” the source said, just in case.
Champion tomahawk-thrower foils burglars
Two burglars picked the wrong victim when they tried to rob the California home of a champion tomahawk-thrower. Robin Irvine was sleeping when she felt someone trying to remove her wristwatch. Instinctively, she grabbed a tomahawk from her bedside, let out a war cry, and chased the men from her house. She restrained herself from hurling the ax at the burglars’ backs. “I hit what I aim for,” she said. But Irvine promised she wouldn’t go so easy on the next intruder. “If you’re in my house,” she said, “you’re not walking out.”
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Violent videos of Charlie Kirk’s death are renewing debate over online censorshipTalking Points Social media ‘promises unfiltered access, but without guarantees of truth and without protection from harm’
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What led to Poland invoking NATO’s Article 4 and where could it lead?TODAY'S BIG QUESTION After a Russian drone blitz, Warsaw’s rare move to invoke the important NATO statute has potentially moved Europe closer to continent-wide warfare
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Africa could become the next frontier for space programsThe Explainer China and the US are both working on space applications for Africa
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Too drunk to get married, and morefeature An Australian groom showed up so drunk for his wedding that a minister refused to perform the ceremony.
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Romanian swallows a metal fork, and more
feature A Romanian man went to the emergency room complaining of intense chest pain.
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Suicidal man helps save a stranger, and more
feature A suicidal man who was threatening to jump off London Bridge helped save the life of a complete stranger drowning in the waters below.
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Morticians discover live man in body bag, and more
feature Workers at a Mississippi funeral home got a shock when a corpse started moving inside his body bag.
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How to shake a vending machine, and more
feature An Iowa man was fired from his warehouse job after he allegedly used a forklift to pick up a vending machine and shake loose a stuck candy bar.
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Young boy goes joyriding, and more
feature A 10-year-old Norwegian boy took his parents’ car for a joyride, then told police that he was a dwarf who had forgotten his driver’s license.
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Taking aim at Kroger's, and more
feature A Kentucky woman allegedly bought a car just so she could ram it into a supermarket that she hates.
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A name like no other, and more
feature Britain’s most heavily tattooed man has been refused a passport because of his unusual name.