The 43-year-old Chinese from Zhuhai married himself in a ceremony that raises a couple of interesting paradoxes. The ceremony in which he “exchanged vows” with a cardboard copy of himself wearing a traditional Chinese wedding gown might be the most absurd thing ever.

Do you count as gay if you marry yourself? How did the Chinese Communist gov…[Read more]

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. Warren Buffett

Sultan Kösen holds the Guinness World record for the world’s tallest man, standing a phenomenal 251 cm above the ground, Sultan probably had a hard time finding a woman like him, and eventually settled with someone enjoying the air richer in oxygen found at lower levels in the atmosphere.

Merve was introduced to Sultan through a mutual friend an…[Read more]

A young man who took to his Facebook wall to post an obituary of himself has come under strong criticism from other users who not only see his action as stupid but downright folly.

The young man who gave his name as Chidera, according to his profile, is only 19-years-old and from Aniocha in Anambra State,Nigeria posted that he was eager to find…[Read more]

Every weekend for the past 14 years, Li Yinglai, an elderly gentleman from Kunming, China, has been entertaining visitors at the city’s Green Lake Park by dressing up in traditional women’s clothes, dancing and posing with tourists.

But while he loves the attention, he claims that he’s not your usual busker, he’s just doing this to make his dea…[Read more]

”No man is an island’

He was a rebel. An outlaw. A defector from the human world.

But after three years on the lam in Massachusetts, Steve the tortoise is set to be reunited with his old human family.

Daniela Tsvetanova told the local newspaper Waltham Patch that Steve, a Russian tortoise, was her son’s beloved pet. But in October 2014 — after living with the…[Read more]

The best cakes are designed with the birthday boy or girl’s interests in mind – and this one is nothing to be sniffed at.

Photos of the creative cake were posted on Facebook by Stacey Morris, who said she had it designed for her boyfriend Ollie’s birthday.Stacey, 22, from Norfolk, told Metro.co.uk: ‘Me and Ollie have a good social group and the…[Read more]