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London, May 7 (ANI): A British musician is desperately looking forward to a cure for his hiccups - which have been going on for 15 months.

London, May 6 (ANI): Thousands of children and their families in Berkshire are hoping to enter record books by building what is thought to be the tallest tower ever made from Lego bricks.

London, May 6 (ANI): Comet, the goldfish is surely on track to become the smartest fish in the world, for it can perform a range of unbelievable aquatic activities.

London, May 5 (ANI): Call it a miracle or a full-size produce - a hen has laid an egg equivalent in size to a tennis ball and almost four times larger than normal.

London, May 5 (ANI): It seems that gardening was not Rachel McGarie's cup of tea, for the weeds and brambles in her garden grew so long that they could be seen from space on Google Earth.

London, May 5 (ANI): You must have heard about humans and animals being fitted with artificial limbs, but have you ever imagined a dolphin getting an artificial tail? Well, Winter, the dolphin is the world's first bionic sea creature fitted with a fake tail.

Kuala Lumpur, May 4 (ANI): A Malaysian local Bhangra album may sound weird to many in India, but two brothers in Malaysia have created history by fusing the local Malay flavour with the Indian spice of Bhangra.

London, May 2 (ANI): Three cops, based in Barking and Dagenham, took a prisoner on a jaunt out to have sex with his wife as his reward for confessing his crimes.

London, April 30 (ANI): Electric nail files have been deemed the 'Most Pointless Gadget of All Time' in a new survey.

London, Apr 20 (ANI): A disabled complainant has been given an Anti- Social Behaviour Order (ASBO) for pestering council staff with 10,000 phone calls in four months.

London, Apr 14 (ANI): It was literally a 'shitty' escape for a UK family when a huge block of ice from a plane's toilet smashed into their ceiling and hit their bed.

London, Apr 10 (ANI): A British technology company has created an 'intelligent' paper memo note with a built-in alarm clock.

London, Apr 5 (ANI): When Chris Clark bought the domain name pizza.com in 1994, he never thought in his wildest dreams that it would fetch him 2.6m dollars after 14 years.

Melbourne, Apr 4 (ANI): An American woman saved her pet dog from a pit-bull attack - by biting the bull back.

London, Apr 3 (ANI): The passion for sports certainly has no limits for this football crazy father-son duo, who make a 1000-mile round trip from Scotland every fortnight - just to watch their beloved team Ipswich Town play.

London, April 3 (ANI): A groaning weightlifter whose noise levels reached as high as those of a rock concert has been slapped with a 70-pound fine for exercising too loudly.

London, Mar 31 (ANI): A man miraculously escaped death when he fell from the top of a 530ft cliff and landed on a narrow ledge.

London, Mar 31 (ANI): A die-hard soccer fan has been dumped by her fiancee for converting their bathroom into a pub.

Melbourne, Mar 31 (ANI): An Italian family is planning to take legal action against the previous owners of their house for not telling them it was haunted.