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A travelling salesman in China has taken the idea of a portable home to the extreme after building himself a house he carries around on his back. Liu Lingchao was fed up with getting wet in the rain so decided to build the unusual accommodation made out of bamboo and plastic sheets. The 38-year-old lost his job five years ago and was then ev...

Some things have to be seen to be believed. Which is perhaps unfortunate for anyone trying to prove that Wellington Indoor Market is haunted. A 'probably explainable' video has been posted on YouTube, sort of showing what could possibly be construed as a ghost-like figure making its way up the stairs and pulling some boxes over in the Victor...

A furious motorist hired four men to smash up his luxury Maserati Quattroporte with sledgehammers outside a car show in protest at the company's poor customer service. The owner, identified only by his surname Wang, saw his £276,000 model turned into an insurance write-off at the Qingdao International Convention Centre in China at the internati...

A tea bag thought to be the world's biggest, weighing an enormous 151kg, has been unveiled in Queensland, Australia. The Planet Organic food company showed off the giant creation this week in its bid to raise money for cancer awareness. Standing 3m high and held in place by a forklift, the bag would make around 100,000 cups for thirsty tea l...

Every story has to come to an end - and it's no different for the real-life Jungle Book duo Emily Bland and her orangutan friend Rishi. The six-year-old schoolgirl from St Albans, Hertfordshire, who struck up a unique friendship with Rishi in 2008, has had to say goodbye to her pri-mate because he's grown too big for her. But it was all smi...