It came as a surprise to Australian custom officials when they found more than a dozen snakes and lizards stuffed inside garden gnomes and similar pottery during a recent international mail check. Since it is illegal to bring live reptiles into Australia without a license, some people use this method to ship reptiles. One of the customs officials found two snakes and three lizards inside ceramic garden statues during a routine postal inspection in Sydney on June 10.

A 17-year-old silver crested cockatoo has reportedly adopted few eggs, which her owner Geoff Grewcock bought them as Easter gifts for friends and family. Pippa is not allowing anyone to touch her eggs, which she has started trying to hatch and when anyone attempts to come near to her eggs, she starts squawking and flapping her wings in violence.

In a bid to seek blessings from them, a couple from Kolkata, India sent personal invitations to nearly 250 beggars in the city for their wedding reception party. The groom's father Malay Saha said on Friday that it's a tradition in their family to invite beggars to the wedding ceremony "to seek divine blessings and fortune in the life of the newly married sons and daughters. " The family believes that the tradition brings them good fortune. Thus, they invited beggars by asking their names from them and then writing it down on the envelopes. The tradition of inviting beggars to a wedding is traced back to their great-grandfather Satish Chandra, who too invited 175 beggars to his wedding party. "And they blessed my son and daughter-in-law from their heart," said the groom's father.

European men are rushing to Bulgaria to buy Boza beer, which is said to boost women's breasts, after Bulgaria's accession to the EU abolished prohibitive customs duties on the drink. The Bulgarian Boza beer, which is made from fermented wheat flour and yeast, has become popular among bar owners, shopkeepers and shoppers across Europe. The beverage is popular among men as gifts for their wives and girlfriends to benefit from its reported ability to make women's breast grow bigger.

Sometimes something unfortunate needs to happen to remind us that there is plenty of goodness in the world. For Dennis and Tamie Leporin, this Christmas they got more than material gifts after a good Samaritan renewed their faith in people.