A British TV company is searching for a terminally ill patient to donate their body to be mummified.

Independent production company Fulcrum TV have placed adverts in order to find a person willing to give their deceased body as part of a documentary on the ancient Egyptian embalming process.

A Japanese woman drove home with the body of an 80-year-old lady lodged on her windscreen.

Michiko Sato is believed to have knocked into the elderly woman before driving the four miles home with her stuck to the car.

A three-year-old Australian girl has befriended a python snake.

Tiny Haileigh McGuire has been inseparable from her pet coastal carpet python Murray since she was a baby - even though he is four times longer than her.

A US man broke into a house to use the tumble dryer.

A teenage resident had a fright when he returned home during the afternoon to discover an intruder in his house, drying his laundry.

A US taxi driver spent Christmas Eve (24.12.09) searching for a passenger who left $10,000 in his car.

When New York cabbie Mukul Asaduzzaman discovered the wodge of cash in the back on his vehicle during the festive period, he spent the rest of the day driving across the city in the hope of reuniting 72-year-old Felicia Lettieri with her fortune.

A US woman is getting married days after her wedding gown was stolen.

Teoni Taylor, from South Dakota, was left devastated when her white ceremonial dress, her bridesmaids' frocks and many other wedding-day essentials totalling over $2,000 were stolen from her car.

A US couple have got married in the supermarket where they met.

When Jack Frankel, 75, and Fina Nikolos, 67, decided to tie the knot, they knew automatically where they wanted to get hitched - the Florida Whole Foods Market in Coral Springs, Florida where they met in May.