An Egyptian woman, reportedly the world's heaviest at 500kg, has been lifted into a hospital in India by crane for lifesaving surgery.

The girl at the centre of the "Cash Me Ousside" meme has racked up over 3.4 million Instagram followers. Now she's cashing in. How bow dah.

The teenager whose appearance on Dr Phil turned her into a viral meme has been kicked off a plane after punching one of her fellow passengers.

A woman found herself in a greasy pickle after taking a valium and deciding to do a home spa treatment - and live blogging her experience.

It's the first time either of them have been engaged, but these elderly romantics have proven it's never too late to be with your soulmate.

A woman resorted to issuing an 'SOS' call online after she got stuck in a bath of coconut oil.

Watch: A baby camel trapped between rocks is freed by the efforts of a kind hunter.

A man obsessed with body art has turned his craft to his hairless cat, covering it in gangster-inspired tattoos.

A Trade Me listing auctioning components of a McDonald's playground has enticed Kiwis' to share both happy memories and unfortunate incidents on the units as children.

A jilted woman cut off her lover's penis with a gardening tool before running down the street with it after he told her he was marrying someone else.

At the age of 18, a teen has discovered that the woman she believed to be her mother had, in fact, kidnapped her at birth.

Even their mother was shocked when they were born.

A teenager has attempted to circumcise himself after being teased by his friends.

The "Kawhautahi dragon" - said to have attacked a party in 1892 - is a NZ "cryptid", an animal whose existence can be neither proved or disproved, writes Paul Charman.

An ingenious way to keep cool this summer using a slip 'n slide and a ride-on lawnmower.

Everyone has a favourite colour but a new quiz claims to be able to work out your personality type based on how you respond to a series of hue combinations.

COMMENT: With "A grade" mysteries hard to find these days, Paul Charman jots down some of his favourite Kiwi mysteries for your summer reading pleasure.

Redditor posted a picture on Imgur showing the footwear alongside its swastika imprints.

Hilarious tattoo fails have been sweeping the web as people can't help poking fun at grammatical disasters and incorrect spelling.

An animal rights activist has had her application for a passport rejected because she had a 'big mouth' and her campaigning rubbed locals the wrong way.

CCTV cameras apparently installed by a concerned father capture a terrified young girl being spooked by what may be a poltergeist.

Footage of a kind farmer rescuing a sparrow in a spot of bother has gone viral.

Inseparable since the horse's birth, these incredible images show the animal's heartbreak over the death of his owner.

The first optical illusion of 2017 has landed.

A man has had his penis amputated after it was stuck in a bottle for four days.

An ornate room was purchased by a newspaper magnate and hasn't been seen since.

A video has emerged of a woman storming her lover's wedding dressed exactly like his bride-to-be.

A wild lizard headed to the beach for a sip of water from a kind human's bottle.

A Kiwi woman has taken to social media to vent her frustration after an airline's automated voice machine did not recognise her "accent".

A woman has died after a strange incident where she attempted to go "halfway-to-heaven" to meet with her recently deceased best friend.