A 102-year-old man from Southampton has set the record as the oldest English Emigrant after setting to sail for New Zealand on Saturday. Eric King-Turner, a retired dentist, embarked on a six-week voyage from Southampton with Kiwi wife Doris, 87.

A Muslim man in the state of West Bengal, India, married his daughter and made her pregnant claiming he had divine sanction for his incestuous act, officials said Monday. Afazuddin Ali, 36, who has five children, married his 15 year old eldest daughter six months back. He informed his wife Sakina of his decision claiming that he had divine sanction from Allah.

Three days after their first encounter, a 93-year-old man proposed to his 85-year-old girlfriend. And with their wedding expected to take place before the year ends, they are now set to become Britain's oldest newly-weds. According to James Mason, the moment he met his Peggy Clark at a day-care center in Paignton, Devon, they both knew immediately that it was love at first sight.

A man and a dog were joined in matrimony last Sunday through a traditional Hindu ritual, as an attempt from the man to be cleansed of his sin of stoning two dogs to death. The marriage took place at a temple in Tamil Nadu, located south of India, upon the advice of an astrologer who revealed that doing so would be the only way for Selva Kumar, 33, to atone for his evil deed, which involved Kumar stoning and clubbing to death two dogs he found mating. Afterwards he strung the bodies up a tree.

Saying she has not found her Mr. Right yet, a Serbian woman has claimed turning down no less than 150 marriage proposals. Milunka Dabovic, from Maskova in central Serbia, says she got her first proposal when she was 14 and they have been coming ever since.