Ever found yourself religiously following the lives of people you’ve never met on social media? Be it your favourite artist, influencer – or someone you met once at a party – those of us “chronically online” are likely familiar with that strange phenomenon of feeling like you know someone – without actually knowing them at […]

Toothpaste made with hair could repair damaged teeth and stop the early stages of decay, a new study has found. Scientists at King’s College London discovered keratin, a protein found in hair, skin and wool that is often used in reparative shampoos, can also help with teeth. “We think this is a game changer, an […]

Troll-like Labubu dolls have taken over the consumer world. Their creator, Pop Mart, has reported a near 400% net profit so far this year, while some have spent thousands on the toys second-hand. The frenzy over the furry dolls has led to huge queues outside the Chinese retailer’s stores, and even forced the company to […]

Guinness World Records (GWR) is celebrating its 70th anniversary by highlighting unclaimed titles you might fancy going for. The bookkeeper of weird and wacky achievements – the first volume of which was published on 27 August 1955 – is inviting people to try their hand at such extraordinary feats as: • The most whoopee cushions […]

An Australian woman convicted of murdering her parents-in-law and an aunt after serving them poisonous mushrooms for lunch has been jailed for life. Erin Patterson, 50, was handed a minimum of 33 years on Monday, for the 2023 murders of her parents-in-law, Don and Gail Patterson, both 70, and Gail Patterson’s sister, Heather Wilkinson, 66, […]

A man in the US has been arrested for allegedly living in the crawl space of a property without the owner’s permission. Beniamin Bucur, 40, was found at an apartment complex in Clackamas, around 16 miles (26km) south of Portland, Oregon, on Wednesday night. Clackamas County Sheriff’s deputies investigated after a witness reported seeing a […]

Officials in western Germany have sought to calm online speculation following the deaths of 16 candidates, including seven from a far-right party, in the run-up to a local election. Voters will go to the polls on 14 September in North Rhine-Westphalia, the country’s most populous state. However, online conspiracy theories have been running rife after […]

Two teenagers who filmed themselves urinating into a restaurant’s hotpot broth have been ordered, along with their parents, to apologise and pay a fine of £227,000, Chinese state media has said. The pair, both 17 and named Wu and Tang, took turns standing on a table and urinating into the dish in a private dining […]

Pokemon has said it did not give permission for the show’s popular theme song to be used in a video showing deportations posted by the US government. The video, which was captioned with Pokemon’s slogan “Gotta catch ’em all”, showed border patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents making several arrests. It also features […]

An Egyptian wrestler is hoping he has set a world record after pulling a 700-ton (635,000kg) ship with his teeth. Ashraf Mahrous, 44, pulled it across the water in Egypt‘s Red Sea resort of Hurghada on Saturday. Mahrous, nicknamed ‘Kabonga’ and known to Egyptians as ‘strongman’, later pulled two ships weighing about 1,150 tons (1,043,000kg) […]