The great dress of China visible from outer space

A Chinese woman was married last week wearing a record-breaking dress with a 2km-long train. It took 200 guests three hours to roll out the gown. 9,999 silk roses were pinned on the train belonging to Lin Rong (25) who was marrying train worker Groom Zhao Peng (28). The dress cost €4,000. "I do not want a cliché wedding parade or banquet," the groom said, "nor can I afford the extravagance of a hot balloon wedding." Although his mother was less enthusiastic. "It is a waste of money in my opinion," she said.

Fat's clever: a grweight way to smuggle

guns into prison

It's one way to get past security – a 40-stone man in Texas smuggled a gun into two prisons by concealing it in his flab. When eventually caught, the president of the Houston Police Officers Union said, "We teach officers to lift up and look under."

You won't see that in the

fossil record...

Federal authorities have seized a creationism theme park in Pensacola, Florida. Kent Hovind, the owner of Dinosaur Adventure Land, and who founded Creation Science Evangelism, is serving 10 years in prison for tax fraud.

It's the year of the two-headed snake

A cobra with two heads has been born in eastern China's Jiangxi province. The snake has started to eat with both mouths simultaneously.