Tory MEPs confused Birmingham, Alabama for Birmingham, England and put up a picture of the former on their website confusing web browsers in the process. According to the Daily Mirror, web browser were shocked to see skyscrapers instead of what they were expecting - the Bullring and Spaghetti Junction.

Two British adventurers travelled 2,600 miles from Dorset, England to Timbuktu and back onboard a Ford Iveco Cargo lorry and Land Cruisers, using biodiesel made from waste chocolate. Andy Pag, 34, and John Grimshaw, 39, set off from the latter's home at Poole, Dorset, on November 26 and arrived in Mali, West Africa on Boxing Day, overcoming sand storms and corrupt customs officials, and driving through a town where days later al-Qaeda terrorists shot dead a French family, to deliver a biodiesel processing unit and the vans to a charity.

A town council in Manchester, England has come up with a novel idea to help mourners freezing in keep warm by using the heat generated from cremating their loved ones. Tameside Council said they will try the idea at the will be tried at the Dukinfield Crematorium, which is notorious for freezing temperatures even during services.

A man from Florida has bitten more than what he chewed from a $10 plate of steamed clams he and his wife ordered at a beach bar. He found from the dish a rare purple pearl that is probably worth thousands. George Brock and his wife Leslie turned out to be the lucky diners at Dave's Last Resort & Raw Bar on Friday. The couple from Royal Palm Beach ordered steamed clams containing the gem.

A farm in Devon, England has prepared the largest Christmas dinner - a roast turkey stuffed with 11 smaller birds, enough to feed 125 people at a cost of $1,336. Dubbed as the True Love Roast, the turkey contains a goose filled with a chicken, then a pheasant and small ducks.