An obituary littered with errors has been corrected 112 years later in an American newspaper.

Daniel Schwenk, 77, came across the tribute to his great-uncle in the New York Times and noticed his name was spelled incorrectly and some dates were wrong.

A New Zealand man "blew up like a balloon" in a freak accident.

Truck driver Steven McCormack slipped and fell from his vehicle's foot plate, breaking a compressed air hose that powered the brakes.

Marmite has been banned in Denmark.

Health and safety officials in the country have deemed the yeast extract product - which is used a savoury spread and has an acquired taste - too full of extra vitamins for their shelves.

A woman's "virgin" hair was cut off and stolen in Brazil.

The unnamed 24 year old was standing at a bus stop when a thief used a knife-like weapon to take her long hair in the central city of Goiania.

A severed head thought to be that of the patron saint of genital diseases is to be auctioned in Ireland.

The grisly object is said to have once been attached to the body of St Vitalis of Assisi, who was an Italian hermit and monk who died in 1370 and was associated with medical treatment of private parts.

A theatre show starring cats and dogs is being shown in Bangkok.

Thought to be the first of its kind, the production - entitled 'Dog and Cat First on Stage: Thailand Fantasy The Musichong' - has a cast made up of 11 canines, one feline and six human beings.

A life-size toy tiger sparked a major police operation in the UK.

The inanimate object looked so much like an actual man-eating beast, armed officers and a force helicopter were called to remove it from a field in Hampshire.