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News of the Weird

News You Can Use

A weekly roundup of international news oddities
By The Editors at Andrews McMeel

Awesome!

A weekly roundup of international news oddities
By The Editors at Andrews McMeel

Bright Idea

A weekly roundup of international news oddities
By The Editors at Andrews McMeel
News You Can Use
News You Can Use

News You Can Use

A weekly roundup of international news oddities
The company says the name change "pays homage" to its new recipe for hot dogs, which are set to start rolling out this summer.

By The Editors at Andrews McMeel May 31, 2023

Creme de la Weird
Creme de la Weird

Creme de la Weird

A weekly roundup of international news oddities
For the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began, a ritual event took place at the Sensoji Temple in Tokyo on April 22, The Guardian reported.

By The Editors at Andrews McMeel May 10, 2023

Creme de la Weird
Creme de la Weird

Creme de la Weird

A weekly roundup of international news oddities
The Mondaiji Con Cafe Daku (loosely translated: Problem Child Concept Cafe) in Sapporo, Japan, was forced to fire one of its waitresses in April after she was discovered to be adding her own blood to cocktails, the Daily Mail reported.

By The Editors at Andrews McMeel May 3, 2023

It's Come to This
It's Come to This

It's Come to This

A weekly roundup of international news oddities
New York City Mayor Eric Adams named former schoolteacher Kathleen Corradi to a new position on April 12, United Press International reported.

By The Editors at Andrews McMeel April 26, 2023

Inexplicable
Inexplicable

Inexplicable

A weekly roundup of international news oddities
Early that morning, officers stopped Saunders on suspicion of a burglary the day before. In the trunk of his BMW, he had a dead deer; when a trooper went to open the rear door, Saunders sped away and eventually got stuck on railroad tracks.

By The Editors at Andrews McMeel April 19, 2023

Weird Science
Weird Science

Weird Science

A weekly roundup of international news oddities
Australian company Vow has wowed the science world with a meatball made of meat cultivated from the genetic sequence of an extinct mammoth, the Associated Press reported on March 29. "This is not an April Fools' joke," said Tim Noakesmith, founder of the company.

By The Editors at Andrews McMeel April 12, 2023

Creme de la Weird
Creme de la Weird

Creme de la Weird

A weekly roundup of international news oddities
Already this year, representatives of a fictional country called the United States of Kailasa have participated in two meetings at the United Nations, Oddity Central reported.

By The Editors at Andrews McMeel April 5, 2023

Goals
Goals

Goals

A weekly roundup of international news oddities
The arrest report noted that Santacroce said that "if he gets out of jail, he will rob another bank and ask for more money next time," so that he'll be sent to federal prison.

By The Editors at Andrews McMeel March 29, 2023

Wait, What?
Wait, What?

Wait, What?

A weekly roundup of international news oddities
The Exmoor Squirrel Project, a conservation endeavor in the United Kingdom aimed at saving the native red squirrel, has proposed that people set live traps for the non-native gray squirrel and that restaurants serve its meat, the BBC reported on Feb. 28.

By The Editors at Andrews McMeel March 22, 2023

Fine Points of the Law
Fine Points of the Law

Fine Points of the Law

A weekly roundup of international news oddities
Michael O'Brien, the father of the child, has filed a petition claiming the baby has not been charged with a crime and is having its due process rights violated, NBC Miami reported.

By The Editors at Andrews McMeel March 15, 2023

Can't Possibly Be True
Can't Possibly Be True

Can't Possibly Be True

A weekly roundup of international news oddities
The pilot, who had asked the instructor to accompany him because of wind conditions that day, thought his cohort was "just pretending to take a nap" as a joke, but after landing the plane, he realized the instructor had died.

By The Editors at Andrews McMeel March 8, 2023

Wait, What?
Wait, What?

Wait, What?

A weekly roundup of international news oddities
When they returned home months later, they were stunned to realize that their house had been sold, and the new owners had moved in.

By The Editors at Andrews McMeel February 22, 2023

Awesome!
Awesome!

Awesome!

A weekly roundup of international news oddities
Along with requested letters, she writes to people in nursing homes through Letters Against Isolation and to people in prisons.

By The Editors at Andrews McMeel February 15, 2023

New World Order
New World Order

New World Order

A weekly roundup of international news oddities
Sure, your fancy SUV may have ventilated seats and Wi-Fi, but does it have electrified door handles?

By The Editors at Andrews McMeel February 8, 2023

Irony
Irony

Irony

A weekly roundup of international news oddities
Early on Jan. 14, in Monterrey, Mexico, Carlos Alonso, 32, allegedly broke a glass door at Christ the King Parish and entered, intending to rob the church, Catholic News Agency reported.

By The Editors at Andrews McMeel February 1, 2023

Cavity Sam Lives
Cavity Sam Lives

Cavity Sam Lives

A weekly roundup of international news oddities
On Jan. 9 in Kyiv, Ukraine, a surgeon removed an unexploded grenade from the chest cavity of a 28-year-old Ukrainian soldier, The Guardian reported.

By The Editors at Andrews McMeel January 25, 2023

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