Gearing up for the upcoming Easter holiday, not everyone is preparing chocolate baskets and painting Easter eggs. One German man has gone to length to sue the Easter bunny for causing him 'bodily harm'.

Karl-Friedrich Lentze, from Berlin, has filed a complaint with local prosecutors, accusing it of causing addiction to chocolate which leads to heart attacks, obesity and strokes, according to Ananova.com

The residents of a small village in India have beheaded a family using machetes, after accusing them of causing the death of two tea garden workers by apparent witchcraft.

According to local police, the group of villagers beheaded the family in a public gathering to "appease the gods after a trial into the unexplained deaths of two plantation workers from a mysterious disease that also afflicted many others in the past two weeks."

The Nigerian government is warning citizens about "psychological discomfort" during the next solar eclipse, scheduled to happen this month. Government officials are warning citizens not to panic.

Frank Nweke, Information Minister, says that the last eclipse that happened five years ago caused panic among citizens because they did not understand what was happening.