Odd News

A woman from Uttar Pradesh gave birth to twins on a moving train - the second time in four years. Zubin Nisha, along with her husband, was travelling from Mumbai to Gonda when she went into labour.

The DSM currently defines 'unusual' sexual turn-ons as paraphilias. Paraphilias include everything from foot fetishes, S and M and erotic eating to exhibitionism and pedophilia.

A group of scientists have used an Apple iPhone 4S to diagnose intestinal worm infections in school children in Tanzania’s rural area.

Australian ocean swimmers have plenty to worry about, from avoiding stinging bluebottle jellyfish and the flailing limbs of other swimmers to the sharks. And of course, the issue of achieving all of that nude.

A boy aged 8 tied the knot with a 61-year-old woman in one of the most unusual weddings in Tshwane, South Africa. His family insists that the wedding was only a ritual and was not legally binding.

In a bizarre case, US man Layne Hardin from Louisiana is suing the fertility clinic and his ex-girlfriend Toby Devall for stealing his sperm and then conceiving a child without his permission.

Born in Mexico in 1834, Julia Pastrana suffered from hypertrichosis and gingival hyperplasia, diseases that gave her copious facial hair and a thick-set jaw. These features led to her being called a "bear woman" or "ape woman".

A New Zealand woman's 10-litre (2.2 gallon) a day Coca-Cola habit was a major factor in her death, a coroner found Tuesday, urging the soft drink giant to put health warnings on its caffeinated products.

In an unusual diagnosis, doctors have described a 23-year-old man in Turkey as suffering from "vampirism" after he was caught several times trying to stab people and drink their blood, according to a report.