A New Zealand man has been convicted for assaulting a teenager with a hedgehog after asking him if he wanted to "wear a hedgehog helmet".

Australian police cruising Sydney's city centre early Wednesday morning were startled when a parachutist floated to earth and landed in front of their patrol car.

The arrival of the troubled Olympic torch relay in Australia next week will revive memories of a 1956 stunt in which a hoax runner fooled crowds with a homemade torch topped by flaming underpants.

Australian media indulged in some April Fool's Day humour on Tuesday, carrying hoax reports of Sydney residents' brains shrinking due to mortgage stress and ads for "no chair" airfares.

Philippine Vice President Noli de Castro found himself in hot water Wednesday when he jokingly ordered his bodyguards to kill a reporter for asking controversial questions.

Chinese leader Mao Zedong proposed sending 10 million Chinese women to the United States, in talks with top envoy Henry Kissinger in 1973, according to documents released Tuesday.

A British student swallowed his door key to prevent friends from forcing him to go home because he was drunk.

A court in Sweden sentenced a man to three months in jail for aggravated libel for falsely informing the FBI that his former son-in-law had links to al-Qaeda.

A 10-year-old Mexican boy glued his hand to his bed to avoid going back to school after the Christmas break, authorities said on Monday (January 7th).

British doctors have made a tongue-in-cheek complaint to a chocolate manufacturer after the firm changed the shape of two sweets that could be used to measure testicles in pubescent boys.