Split 50-50
By: Natasha Smith natasha@portugalresident.com IN A bitter divorce case, a 43-year-old German man literally split his house in two, using a chainsaw. He measured out his single-storey summer house and,
Gentlemen prefer blondes
By: Skip Bandele skip.bandele@portugalresident.com DO GENTLEMEN really prefer blondes? Let us have a look at that old cliché and the issue of age gaps – and I am not talking
Trigger happy
By: Natasha Smith natasha@portugalresident.com MATT ROBINSON, a 17-year-old from the US, accidentally shot himself in the heart with a nail gun – and survived. The gun slipped and his finger
Peg leg
By: Natasha Smith natasha@portugalresident.com RESEARCHERS APPEALED to scientists all over the world to help make a prosthetic leg for a panda in northern China in order to save her sex
Pot luck
By: Natasha Smith natasha@portugalresident.com POLICE IN the US were baffled after a man asked for their help to break into a church in Wisconsin. They saw him trying to break
Body snatchers
By: Natasha Smith natasha@portugalresident.com FOUR ARMED men stormed a cemetery in southern Mexico and stole the body of a suspected gang member, who had been killed days earlier. They tied
Sad bride
By: Natasha Smith natasha@portugalresident.com A WOMAN in India refused to let her fiancé be cremated at the weekend – until she was married to him. He had fallen down a
Palace pranksters
PRINCE WILLIAM and Harry were accused of abusing their granny’s trust after she asked them to help her work out her answering machine. They recorded a message, which said: “Hey
Cuddly buddies
TWO SUMATRAN tiger cubs have made friends with a set of orang-utan twins in an animal hospital at Taman Safari Zoo in Indonesia. After they were abandoned at birth, the
Concealed weapon
DURING A security clampdown at an El Salvador jail, prison guards were surprised to find a hand grenade hidden up an inmate’s rectum. The V40 grenade was part of an