23rd April 2018
King Mswati III has changed the name of his country from Swaziland to eSwatini (‘land of the Swazis’) to avoid it being mistaken for Switzerland.
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Norway’s national transport regulator has asked recent high school graduates not to celebrate by having sex on traffic roundabouts.
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The Tennessee National Guard has sacked a colonel and a sergeant after he took her oath of allegiance as she mimed it with a dinosaur glove puppet on her hand.
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A St. Bernard operated on after a CT scan showed lumps in her stomach and on her spleen was found not to have cancer but to have eaten four teddy bears.
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US Scientists have made a new form of ‘superionic’ ice that is solid and liquid at the same time, 60 times denser than ordinary ice and almost as hot as the Sun.
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Asda has apologised to an online shopper after accidentally charging her £930.11 for a single banana.