Weird News Files

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.

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.

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

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 man in China has died after his mobile phone exploded, severing a major artery in his neck.