Weird News Files

Doctors have spotted what looks like the face of a screaming man in an ultrasound of a testicular tumor.

A Colorado woman has ballooned to 490 pounds because eating junk food gives her an ­orgasm.

Protesters in Cairo’s Tahrir Square use improvised protective gear to ward off the violent attacks of paid Mubarak supporters. Amazing photos from Der Spiegel.

The management at a factory producing Kalashnikov guns in Russia’s Kirov Oblast is paying its workers in food in place of their regular salaries.

Some are speculating a link between the recent phenomenon of dead birds and fish, found in Louisiana and Arkansas, with the use of toxic dispersant chemicals by BP in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. It has been less than 6 months since mass amounts of these chemicals were used, time enough for the chemicals to work their way through the environment.

A politician in the Philippines who was shot dead while taking a photograph of his family on New Year’s Day captured his killer on camera just seconds before the assassin fired the fatal shots.

A bunch of Brooklyn bees have been coming home looking flushed. Tests confirmed the bees were riddled with Red Dye No. 40.

The Chia Obama, a Chia pet-style Obama sculpture on which people can cultivate a head of green hair, has been recalled from Walgreens’ and RiteAid stores throughout the US.

Uninspired by the men she’s met but facing social pressure to get married, a 30-year-old Taipei office worker will marry herself.

A California woman who befriended a homeless woman and let her sleep in her car told police she didn’t know where to turn when the woman unexpectedly died — so she drove the body around for months along with a box of baking soda to hide the smell.

By day, Colonel Russell Williams was the commander of Canada’s biggest air force base, CFB Trenton. By night, he broke into homes, taking pictures of himself modeling the bras and panties of little girls.

Cincinnati Bengals receiver Chad Ochocinco has his own cereal line, but it turns out the Pro Bowler is promoting more than just a breakfast snack.

A Florida man won a $650,000 settlement after an exotic dancer kicked him in the face.

A Nova Southeastern University Ethics professor has been picked up and charged by police for loitering and allegedly peering in his neighbors windows.

The parents of a New York teen killed in a car crash five years ago are suing the city’s medical examiner for keeping their dead son’s brain on display in a jar at the morgue for months without telling them.

Jarrette Schule was cutting down trees on his rural property in Comal County, Texas when he noticed a green metallic tube on the muddy ground. A closer inspection revealed a decal that read: “Guided Missile and Launcher, Surface Attack.”

The British Ministry of Defence is investigating the death of a young Afghan girl who died after being hit by a box of leaflets dropped by the RAF.

A carnivorous plant that eats rats and insects has been discovered in the Philippines.

A school of robotic fish are being used to detect pollution in a Spanish port.

An Arlington woman, 62, told detectives evil was at work when she allegedly forged more than $73,000 worth of checks to herself from the church where she was an administrative assistant.