Weird News Files

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.

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