Some more funny and random headlines from around the world:
- Huge Pope John Paul statue unveiled: Poland unveils a giant statue of Pope John Paul II overlooking the city of Czestochowa, reputed to be the tallest of the former pontiff anywhere.
- Nepali hosts longest-ever talk show: A Nepali television presenter has set a new world record by holding the longest-ever talk show, breaking the previous record by 10 hours.
- Anger at Bieber’s Anne Frank message: Justin Bieber faces a public backlash over his note in the Anne Frank Museum’s guestbook, saying he hoped the Holocaust victim would have been a fan.
- Airport worker resigns with cake: A Border Force worker from Stansted Airport resigns from his job with the help of a cake.
- Beckhams are ‘posher’, study finds: David and Victoria Beckham have changed their speech to “sound less working class”, researchers at the University of Manchester conclude.
- Cancer patient ‘saves ambulance man’: A Frenchman with late-stage cancer has saved the life of an ambulance driver who had a heart attack whilst driving him to hospital, doctors say.
- Nigeria state tackles rumour mongers: Nigeria’s oil-rich Bayelsa state explains why it has put up a series of advertising hoardings, urging people to “Say no to rumour mongers”.
- Rare blue diamond found in S Africa: An African company recovers a rare blue diamond, thought to be worth $10m (£6.5m), from its mine in South Africa.
- Le Mans winner arrested after crash: Brazilian driver Jaime Melo Junior, who won two Le Mans 24-hour endurance races, is arrested after crashing his car during a high-speed chase.
- Warhol photos ‘lost’ for 30 years: Photographic portraits of pop artist Andy Warhol, which lay gathering dust in a filing cabinet for more than 30 years, are to go on show for the first time.
- Help! I am not Robin van Persie: ‘I’m not Robin van Persie, I’m an IT consultant’
- Imaginary portraitist up for Turner: A portrait painter, whose subjects are all imaginary, is one of four artists in contention for the 2013 Turner Prize, held in Derry-Londonderry.
- Franz Joseph hair sold at auction: A buyer pays 13,720 euros for a lock of hair belonging to the Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph in an auction in Vienna.
- ‘Raining money’ in Belgian town: Police are urging people from a small town in Belgium to return tens of thousands of euros in cash that were thrown out of a speeding car by thieves attempting to make a getaway.
- Churchill to feature on new banknote: Sir Winston Churchill will feature on the new design of a banknote which will enter circulation in 2016, the Bank of England announces.
- Royals’ gifts to Obamas reported: The Royal Family and UK PM Cameron gave US President Obama a china tea set, a tapestry and a dog toy in 2011, the US state department reports.
- Climbers and guides fight on Everest: Police in Nepal investigate an alleged fight between two famous European climbers and their Nepalese mountain guides on Mount Everest.
- Chat app messages ‘overtake texts’: Instant messaging on chat apps, such as WhatsApp, has overtaken the traditional SMS text message for the first time, research firm Informa says.
- Cheetah claws Botswana president: Botswana President Ian Khama has received stitches after a caged cheetah hurt him in a “freak accident” at an army barracks, officials say.
- Hapless attempt at parallel parking is internet hit: A video of an unfortunate woman trying to parallel park her car in Belfast becomes an internet sensation.
- Richard III team makes second find: A Roman cemetery with remains thought to date back to 300AD is found beneath a Leicester car park by the same team that discovered the remains of Richard III.
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