A British woman had 27 contact lenses on her eye and didn’t know about it, doctors said.

The 67-year-old woman reportedly believed that she was experiencing discomfort in her eye due to dry eye or old age.

“None of us have ever seen this before,” specialist trainee ophthalmologist, Rupal Morjaria, told Optometry Today. “It was such a large mass.…[Read more]

July 15 (UPI) — An Australian senator elected three times to Parliament resigned Saturday after revealing he’d learned was a citizen of New Zealand, and thus ineligible to serve.

Scott Ludlam, 47, a deputy leader of the minority Greens Party, apologized to constituents and said he was previously unaware of his New Zealand heritage. He said his…[Read more]

An estranged wife of a former violin maker in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of destroying 54 violins and 70 bows collectively worth around 105.9 million yen ($950,700) that belonged to him, police said.Midori Kawamiya, a 34-year-old music instrument seller in Tokyo, has admitted to breaking into his home in Nagoya but…[Read more]

SKOWHEGAN, Maine (AP) — A Maine man told a 911 dispatcher he was killing himself and first responders needed “to hurry up” because he was an organ donor.

Skowhegan police Chief David Bucknam says the man was still breathing when first responders arrived Sunday night but he died a few minutes later.

Bucknam says a handgun was found next to the m…[Read more]

Police in Wyoming never expected a Facebook post about giving money to panhandlers to go viral.

But when the Cheyenne Police Department’s Sunday post was shared more 46,000 times, it sparked about 8,000 comments from across the country — some supportive of the post and others critical.

The post shows a stack of money and a sign that says…[Read more]

An Ohio woman called 911 Thursday after a 5-foot-6-inch boa constrictor she had rescued wrapped itself around her face and began biting her nose.

The victim, a 45-year-old woman of Sheffield Lake, which is about 10 miles west of Cleveland, called authorities after one of the two boa constrictors she rescued the previous day had attacked her. The…[Read more]

A 72-year-old Oklahoma woman refused to let more than a dozen copperhead snakes slither under her home unchecked Friday, using a shotgun, shovel and rake handle to crush and blast the critters to death.

The woman, identified only as Mrs. Newby, was dubbed the “snake killer” after she was spotted with 11 dead reptiles on the ground, neighbor Susan…[Read more]

An air passenger was bound and strapped to his seat following a mid-flight fight across Russia.

A drunk passenger had to be bound to his seat after he allegedly punched a flight attendant in the face.

The man’s drunken tirade was captured on camera and shared online, following the altercation that unfolded on an Aeroflot flight in Russ…[Read more]

The frustrated passenger, obscured from view by other passengers, was holding a baby when the employee lashed out at him.

The moment an airport worker punched a frustrated passenger has been caught on camera by another traveller.

The unidentified man was holding his baby at Nice Airport in France while waiting for a delayed flight when the…[Read more]