Humans have back pain ‘because we're not from this planet’

Humans suffer from back pain because we are an alien race from another planet, according to a scientist. Dr Ellis Silver says the human race was transplanted between 60,000 and 200,000 years ago from another star system – Alpha Centauri. Our original planet had lower gravity, which means our backs are prone to pain in our new home of Earth, he explain.

Man finds tooth growing in nostril

A man with a blocked nose was stunned to discover that the cause was a tooth growing in his nostril. Zhang Binsheng had been struggling to breathe out of his nose for three months when he went to the doctors. An X-ray discovered that a tooth, which had been knocked out of his mouth in an accident 20 years previously, had lodged itself in his nose and taken root.

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Message in a bottle reply arrives nine years on

A Massachusetts teenager who threw a message in a bottle into the Atlantic Ocean when he was 10 has received a reply from a French man nine years later. Max Vredenburgh said: “When I first read his letter, my heart, my stomach just dropped. I was like, ‘Oh my God. My 10-year-old wish just came true.’”

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