Hell officially freezes over

Residents of the small Michigan community of Hell, 95km west of Detroit, have revealed that their town officially froze over, as night time temperatures plummeted to -26C. The US is in the grip of the so-called polar vortex, which has sent freezing weather across the north-eastern states this week.

Man silences angry wife with lottery win

A Kansas man has revealed that he discovered he had won $22,000 during an argument with his wife over how much money he spent playing the lottery. “When I showed my wife how much I had won, she immediately quit bickering. We were both very surprised,” Louis Kronawitter told local media.

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Ariana Grande makes tattoo typo worse

Singer Ariana Grande has revealed an attempt to fix a misspelled tattoo has, arguably, made the situation worse. The tattoo was meant to read “Seven Rings”, but a typo made the Japanese characters spell “little charcoal grill”. An attempt to fix the tattoo means it now reads “Japanese BBQ fingers”.