A British working men's club descended into a mass brawl over the last packet of peanuts.

Two men in the High Brooms Working Men's Club in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, began to row over who should have the last packet of dry roasted peanuts.

Chinese dieters have been warned by government doctors not to swallow parasite worms.

Slimmers in Hong Kong have been inundated with online adverts for weight loss products which use the eggs of Ascaris - giant intestinal worms which grow to 15in in length in a host's intestine and lay up to 200,000 more eggs a day - but the city's department for health claim they are potentially fatal.

A British hospital has launched a new range of 'modesty' hospital gowns.

Workers at the North Bristol NHS Trust medical centre were so fed up of complaints about the traditional garments - which tie up at the rear and expose patients’ bottoms - they’ve designed a range of wraparound gowns which protect the modesty of the wearer by tying at the sides.

A US thief tried to avoid being caught with stolen goods by hiding in a police station.

The 26-year-old man from Riverton, Wyoming reportedly fled from a grocery store with a stolen bottle of Schnapps and a packet of cough sweets before seeking shelter in a nearby building.

A US strip club raised money for Haiti earthquake victims by staging a charity lap dancing event.

Workers at Marilyn's on Monroe, in Toledo, Ohio, were desperate to come up with a fund-raising bash which would improve the club's reputation - but struggled to find an organisation which would deal with a company in the adult entertainment industry.

An Australian rambler has been jailed for 21 months for repeatedly walking around nude.

Stephen Gough - who had been attempting to walk around Britain naked - was arrested within seconds of being freed from jail for attempting to commit the exact same offence.

A US man was caught trying to steal 75 bottles of body lotion by stuffing them down his trousers.

Chamil Guadarrama, 30 - who was shopping in the Bath + Body Works store in Springfield, Massachusetts - was reportedly caught shoplifting by a sales assistant who spotted him slipping bottles of lotion through the zip in his trousers.