The new boss of a restaurant that has sent five owners broke in three years wants an exorcist to check the property for evil spirits.

Forget Peter Piper and his Peck of Pickled Peppers - psychologists have come up with what may be the world's most frustrating tongue twister.

Prime Minister John Key says Colin Craig may be "winding up" the media by questioning whether man landed on the moon.

A brazen bird snatched a video camera that was recording crocodiles in northwest Australia and captured fascinating footage of its 110-kilometre journey.

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT. A dead sperm whale has exploded after stranding on a beach in the Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic.

An actual party animal has become a worldwide sensation after his night out with a bunch of French revellers went viral.

Mike Robinson was at 12,000 feet when a second plane carrying other skydivers struck the aircraft he was in, sending them all tumbling toward the ground.

One of two oarfish found in California waters earlier this month had a host of parasites living in its giant, serpent-like body.

Game over. Cats have won the internet. At least that was the conclusion among the many attendees of the internet Cat Video Festival.

The Vatican is forming its own cricket team, which will be called St Peter's Cricket Club.

He forgot to book the wedding venue, so on the day, bridegroom Neil McArdle phoned in a bomb threat. He's been jailed for a year - but did his near-Mrs stand by him?

Did the cat come back? Mid-Canterbury's elusive black panther may have moved south, with a new sighting of a cat-like animal feasting on road kill.

A marine science instructor snorkeling off the Southern California coast spotted the silvery carcass of an 18-foot-long, serpent-like oarfish. Because oarfish dive more than 3,000 feet, sightings are rare and they are largely unstudied.

CCTV footage caught in Russia shows the dramatic moment a shelf collapsed in a liquor store, sending a flood of booze onto the floor. The liquor shelf collapsed in the supermarket Magnit. Courtesy: NewsPoint

It's only 20 kilometres long and three kilometres wide, but two cars on Matakana Island managed to crash into each other early this morning.

The quiet settlement of Maketu has been rocked by a one-in-10,000 occurrence - a hen changing into a rooster.

When a Christchurch woman had a stomach ache on Thursday night little did she know she was pregnant and a baby was on its way.

BBC newsreader Simon McCoy mistakes photocopier paper for iPad.Simon McCoy shows off the latest must-have gadget for BBC newsreaders: a stack of photocopier paper that he mistook for an IPAD.The 51-year-old presenter was doing a piece to camera on 'drunk tanks'.The BBC later said that he had picked up the paper roll by mistake. Courtesy: BBC