Odd news photo galleries from the UK and around the world.

A 59-year-old from Leicester has broken the world record for pulling a double decker bus the furthest distance using only the hair on his own head.

Fraudster Anne Darwin has agreed to repay nearly £600,000 from the faked death scam she carried out with her husband, Leeds Crown Court has heard.

We come across bugs and insects every day and most of us think very little of them.

Richard Heene, the man suspected of the alleged "balloon boy" hoax, was influenced by a belief that that the world will end in 2012, according to a friend.

When David Beckham came on to the pitch 57 minutes into England's World Cup qualifying match against Belarus, he brought more than a touch of playmaking to proceedings

The skull belonging to a Northumberland man involved in a car crash over 50 years ago has regenerated itself.

A bra that can be converted into a gas mask is among the winners of this year's Ig Nobel prizes.

It's a truth universally acknowledged that just as many headlines are generated by the daft and the baffling as the drab and the serious