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Delays, technical failures and shortages are common the world over when developing military technology, if two reports this week are anything to go by.

Japanese officials say seven middle-aged women stashed gold bars in their abdomen and were attempting to avoid paying import tax.

Julian Lee was rescued with the help of some bystanders, airport employees and a pair of scissors.

Cadbury UK has backtracked on its initial ruling of how to pronounce the "creme" in Creme Egg, and is also explaining why its products are halal.

World Peace and Unification Sanctuary Church will bless couples with legally-purchased assault rifles.

Authorities have launched a manhunt to catch the assailants and the motive behind the attack is still unclear.

"I saw this huge cow with a big hump so I stupidly started singing this song. As I was walking past the cow it suddenly lunged at me and head-butted me," the 25-year-old recalled.

The woman, now 21, has claimed in her lawsuit that Roy Andrews picked her up from school in May 2010 and later took her to a motel and raped her.

The Egyptian woman has decided to end her 40-day marriage and she is reported to have taken the drastic step after her "stingy" husband refused to buy her a meat-wrap.

A man named Edward claimed that in 2004, he travelled to the future and found Los Angeles was not the same.

Students simply can't have enough of the rave parties themed around the famed naturalist.

The hospital had taken several x-rays in which two eggs could be seen nestled in the boy's lower abdomen.

Marcelle Mancuso broke a vertebra after slipping off a bench while doing a very common abdominal exercise aka inverted sit-up in 2016.

The man, identified only as Sonelal, claimed that the reptile had bitten him and in anger he bit off its head.

The Philippines military lauded the efforts of the crew members for their quick-thinking in handling the dreaded Abu Sayyaf militants.

More than 250 people have been killed in intense bombing from Syrian government forces in eastern Ghouta. At least 50 children were among the dead.

Maria Vinogradova, 12, and Anastasia Svetozarova, 15, who fell to their deaths from an apartment block in Izhevsk, are believed to have committed suicide.

A British woman and her boyfriend were kicked off a Dubai-bound flight on Emirates Airline after she complained of period pains.

Frankie, short from Frankenkitten, was found with a deformed eye that needed to be removed and an extra set of ears. Now he's found a loving home.

"Everybody was looking with interest and confusion, but everybody remained silent," a fellow passenger said.

The incident happened at the couple's home in Kocaeli, northwestern Turkey.

Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) ordered to pay £100,000 to family of 102-year-old Fumio Okubo who killed himself when told to flee Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.

An 85-year old great-grandfather has loudly and proudly sung "You'll Never Walk Alone" in front of a crowd of 30 family members.

Iran issued a stark warning to Israel threatening to raze Tel Aviv if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made the "slightest unwise move" against it.

Funeral strippers are a common sight at funerals in rural China despite the government's well-documented hostility.

An Australian man has convinced an Indian woman to move across to be his wife. He immediately made her a slave for himself and his brother.

The president denied any wrongdoing, instead choosing to attack the Washington Post for covering the story.

Environmentalists criticised locals in the Chilean town of Punta Delgada for desecrating the remains of a blue whale which beached on 18 February.

Christian Crush offers all couples the chance to watch seminars on tackling porn addiction in relationships.