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A US man has been fined for driving in a carpool lane with a skeleton in the passenger seat.

Bryan Stime was pulled over by a Washington state patrolman on December 20 for alleged aggressive driving when police discovered the green skeleton in a white sweatshirt seating in the passenger seat, television station King 5 reports.

Stime admitted breaking the rules but told the station that he used the skeleton because he travelled 72km each way to get to work.

So much for the myth of great French lovers.

A 51-year-old Frenchman has been ordered to pay his ex-wife $14,000 for being a dud in bed during their 21 years of marriage.

A judge in Nice ruled that the legal code stipulating married couples must agree to a "shared communal life," implied that "sexual relations must form part of a marriage."

He ruled that meant the woman's complaint of a lack of fire in the bedroom constituted grounds for divorce, London's Daily Telegraph reported.

The 47-year-old wife wasn't satisfied, though, and demanded 10,000 Euros in compensation for "lack of sex" during her two decades with her husband.

A killer whale attacks a group of sharks in shallow waters — and then an excited dog jumps in for a piece of the action.

Video of the incredible display was shown on New Zealand television this week after it was witnessed by a group of people on Boxing Day at Blues Cliffs Beach in Southland

A two-year-old Queensland boy is lucky to be alive after a python coiled around him in his backyard and bit him four times.

The Port Douglas toddler was playing with a ball in the backyard at around 7.45pm on Monday when his mother lost sight of him.

"Then I heard this blood curdling scream," his mother told the Cairns Post.

A Sydney man has delivered his final gag — in a newspaper's death notices.

Brian Alexander Leitch's dying wish was to be able to write his own obituary, which appeared in today's Daily Telegraph after he finally succumbed to cancer on December 15  at the age of 76.

The message reads:

"I would like my relatives and friends to know that I have finally fallen off the perch due to a serious attack of death which was utterly and absolutely fatal and totally untreatable even with a bottle of Chivas (although God knows I tried). See ya at the camel sales. Over and Out — Captain. "

Staff at a wildlife park in southwest China have turned to the country's half a billion web users for advice after a male sheep and a female deer began mating — and soon became inseparable.

A posting on the park's microblog posed the question: "What do you do when a ram falls in love with a deer?" It asked readers whether they agreed it would be "unethical" to let the unusual pairing continue.

A surfer who became an online star after a video of a shark leaping over him went viral has spoken publicly about the heart-stopping encounter for the first time.

Six months after footage of the close-call with a spinner shark was posted online, Florida local Andy Dabrowski has admitted he was the mystery surfer in the video.

Three Italian brothers have suffered heart attacks at nearly the same time, with two of them proving fatal.

Yesterday brothers Guido Garafalo, 45, and Alberto Mario, 53, were picnicking with their families on Mount Etna, on the island of Sicily, when Guido collapsed to the ground with a heart attack.

Alberto Mario went to the aid of his brother but then he too began grabbing at his chest in pain, Britain's Telegraph newspaper reports.

Paramedics arrived by helicopter but both brothers were declared dead at the scene.

At roughly the same time, their 57-year-old brother Salvatore had a heart attack while visiting their mother at a hospital in Catania.

Barack Obama entered into the Northern Territory's fun frontier spirit when he declared crocodile insurance to be the most unusual gift he had received as US president.

A Vietnamese woman who claims she aged by 50 years in just days has doctors grappling for answers.

Nguyen Thi Phuong has the wrinkled and saggy skin of a woman in her seventies, but claims she is just 26 years old, the Sun reports.

A chimpanzee has demonstrated exceptional paternal skills after he was taught to bottle-feed tiger cubs in a Thailand zoo.

The two-and-a-half-year-old Dodo, from the Samut Prakarn Crocodile Farm and Zoo near Bangkok, has been feeding the cubs every day for more than a year.

London aquarium staff have weaned a chocoholic giant gourami onto a healthier menu of grapes and bananas after inheriting the creature which was raised entirely on Kit Kats.

Roy Miracle died the way he lived, rooting for his beloved Ohio State Buckeyes.

At Miracle's funeral on July 1, his family posed with his body to form the "O-H-I-O" one last time, with the late 80-year-old patriarch occupying the I-slot from his coffin, the Columbus Dispatch reported.

An 11-year-old boy from Brazil nicknamed "Magnet Boy" has been attracting worldwide attention for demonstrating how metal objects stick to his body.

Think Australian anti-smoking laws are tough? Iceland is considering banning cigarettes and making them prescription-only for those who cannot quit.

A murder mystery dating back to 1879 was finally resolved when a skull unearthed in BBC legend David Attenborough's garden was formally recognised as that of a woman murdered by her maid 132 years ago.

A self-styled Taiwanese "prophet" was convicted Thursday of "spreading rumours" when he said a monster earthquake would destroy the island last month and fined Tw$40,000 ($1450), a court said.

Wang Chao-hung, better known as "Teacher Wang", stirred up a media frenzy after he "predicted" a giant quake and tsunami would hit Taiwan on May 11, urging people to move into makeshift shelters converted from cargo containers.

A self-proclaimed witch who says she is not subject to earthly laws has "declined" a jail sentence for seriously injuring a policeman.

Eilish De'Avalon faced a series of charges after being stopped by police in her car in Geelong in February last year.

A home-made rocket built by two Danes has successfully blasted off from a floating launch pad off the Danish Baltic island of Bornholm, nine months after its first test flight failed due to a defective hair drier.

"It was like seeing a missile and it came over us a couple of kilometres up. We are ecstatic and will be going home with everything we have learned," one of the Danish inventors behind the project, Peter Madsen, told public broadcaster TV2 News.

Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg has reportedly taken to only eating meat from animals he has slaughtered.

The 27-year-old billionaire took on the dietary regimen as the latest in a series of personal challenges that he pursues in what little time he spends not working on Facebook, according to Fortune magazine.

Sasha, a momma dog, was rescued from a shelter with the help of Snuggle Rescue three days before she gave birth to her puppy at The Pet Doctor. The Pet Doctor rescued a baby raccoon when Sasha's puppy was a day old. The Pet Doctor introduced the baby raccoon to Sasha and she instantly began taken care of him.

A man caught on a speed camera doing 40mph in a 30mph zone has escaped prosecution - because he was on roller-skates.

A group of second-graders had an unpleasant surprise last month when worms began falling from the sky during their gym class.

On March 4, the students were in the middle of a soccer match on an Astroturf field at Galashiels Academy in the United Kingdom when they began to be pelted with dozens of earthworms from the sky. It was approximately 9:15 a.m. and there wasn't a cloud to be seen.