Doctors heal split penis with manuka honey

A man has had his split penis cured with manuka honey after the skin peeled off leaving him unable to have sex. When the man went to the doctor, complaining of a too-tight foreskin, it was found that he had non-cancerous tumours which had split the skin. Honey was applied with “a satisfying outcome,” says the International Journal of Surgery Cases.

Spilt coffee forces commercial flight to land

A commercial flight was forced to make an emergency landing when hot coffee was accidentally spilled over the cockpit control panel. The Airbus A330-243 flying to Cancun, Mexico, from Frankfurt, landed at Shannon in Ireland. It had 326 people on board.

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Bulldozer demolishes home as man showers

A man in Tennessee was in the shower when a bulldozer began to mistakenly demolish his home. Wearing only a towel, Taylor Parker rushed into his yard to stop the demolition. The driver tried to convince Parker that the damage to his house had been done by a falling tree.

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