Nobody wants to die, but it’s a natural part of life. And it’s also the reason we reproduce—so that our humanity lives on through our children, grandchildren, and great-great-great-great grandch…
Not everybody celebrates a solar eclipse with a traditional pinhole projector. The folks in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India, for instance, like to commemorate the occasion by burying their children.
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The Indian city of Mumbai has been recently and mysteriously hit with an onslaught of condom thefts. Resisting the urge to chuckle at this moment may not be easy, but please consider doing so, because…
Although marriage isn’t as popular nowadays as it used to be, there still remain billions of lovers worldwide who desire nothing more than to get hitched to their beau.
Unfortunately, marriage is…
Villagers in Matkumdih, India, came across a different type of elephants on parade when they discovered that a herd of wild elephants had ransacked their public school in the early hours of morning in…
In an attempt to fund a pleasure trip to Macau, a twenty-two year old Indian man with very expensive tastes and not too many smarts unsuccessfully staged his own kidnapping, demanding more than $40,00…
Fed up with requesting for their own railway station for more than 2 decades, Tajnagar, a small Indian village outside Delhi, finally built one by themselves. This DIY project was funded by villagers'…
Directed by President Mohamed Nasheed, the Maldives government held its first underwater cabinet meeting to attract attention to the dangers of global warming. Dressed in full scuba gear, he conducted…
An Indian sweet shop marked its 75th anniversary with a bang when it created the world's largest jalebi in Meghalaya, India recently. The giant jalebi, a pretzel-shaped Indian treat, had a 75 inch dia…
Nagging spouses are nothing new and certainly no wives from any particular nation have exclusively cornered the market.
There are nagging husbands too, but not as far as a particular group of I…
For hundreds of poor villagers in eastern India a recently discovered rare sea turtle is considered the incarnation of the Hindu deity, Lord Jagannath. There is no telling them otherwise as they have …
A man in India has proved that nothing's impossible, not when you have the willpower and the right equipment. Frustrated with a hilly range that blocked easy access to his home, Ramchandra Das, a vill…
Many of us wish we could emulate the spider-enhanced physical prowess of Peter Parker, known more commonly as Spider-Man, but not many of us have the guts to scale a wall without the aid of a safety n…
Bizarre, unique, fanciful and a little bit weird are certainly some of the words one could use to describe Japan’s largest and most incredible “spa resort zone.”
Spa experiences to fit almost…