A Jehovah's Witness who for decades refused all surgery on his horrific facial disfigurement has been given hope by a British doctor and new medical technology.

Unwilling to accept a blood transfusion, Jose Mestre has allowed the bloody tumour that first appeared on his lip in adolescence to obliterate almost all of his face.

Visitors have been flocking to a zoo in Japan to catch a glimpse of green polar bears.

The bears are drawing questions from puzzled visitors at the Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens in central Japan.

Two Serbian cooks have created one whopping hamburger. The giant meat patty weighed in at 94.2 pounds, and might snag a Guinness World Record.

MMMM - Rat.

Yes folks seems the down turn in the economy hasn't stopped other countries from digging into the finner things in the cupboard, like rat.

Pictures and video you won't believe.

Woman clains devine intervention.

Finds image of the Virgin Mary in the skin of a grape.

Where? well duh - Texas of course

Only the bear facts here.

But seems cops were beaten to the scene. They closed in to shut down a pot growing opertation in Utah. But evidence shows a bear beat them to it.

A kite surfer in Florida was picked up by Tropical Storm Fay's winds and thrown across the beach and into a nearby building. He was hospitalized and remains in critical condition.

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Some extreme examples of self-styled human freaks were the headliners at an opening of an exhibit at a London museum.

The Ripley's Believe It or Not show features a feline fella and a man who's gone under the surgeon's knife and tattooist's needle to transform himself into "Lizardman".

People from a village in India's eastern Jharkhand pierce their bodies in a bid to please the goddess 'Mansa'.

They believe that by piercing their bodies they will please their goddess who will protect them from snake bites.

The festival is called `Panchparagana' and is celebrated during the rainy season every year.

Okay it's not all about george W, or even much at all.

But the W has created a certain image of America, and it seems the people of the nation are following on.

A new study suggests that genes determine men's ability to commit in a relationship, Dr. Debbye Turner Bell reports. Harry Smith speaks to psychologist Dr. Jennifer Hartstein about the study.

Hundreds of women - and a few men - turned up in heels and hot pants for a short but ungainly race in Australia.

More than 260 women dashed across the 80-metre distance, though some fell on the pavement and others ended up walking to the finish line.

A BABY boy born with two heads has died after his parents took him home because they could not afford his medical care.

The Bangladeshi boy, named Kiron, was born on Monday by caesarean section and died at home late yesterday after developing a fever and breathing difficulties, paediatrician KS Alam said.

Kiron had attracted such attention that 150,000 people gathered at the clinic where he was cared for after his birth in Keshobpur, 135km from the capital Dhaka.

Okay just when you thought fat guys didn't have it.

check this video out.

The birth of a Giant Panda baby is captured on video in what is being celebrated as Japan's first successful birth by an artificially inseminated panda in 20 years.

Giant Panda Tan Tan was the star of Kobe's Oji Zoo on Tuesday (August 26) after giving birth to Japan's first baby panda in 20 years to be born as a result of artificial insemination.

This is hilarious. Old guy in an interview gets all worked up.

He really gets into it - leaves the interview - then comes back and starts to rough up the camera crew.

The boy, named Kiron, was born by caesarean on Monday weighing 5.5kg in Keshobpur, 135km from Dhaka, gynaecologist Mohamad Abdul Bari said.

"He has one stomach and he is eating normally with his two mouths. He has one genital organ and a full set of limbs," he said.

"He was born from one embryo but there was a developmental anomaly."

Okay, maybe it's not real, or maybe CBS in it's wisdom edited out sounds of John McCain ripping farts.

If that is true then the video here was snuck out CBS world HQ and given to us to decide.

The question - did John McCain fart on national TV or not?

Summoned by squeaky toys, feather dusters and usually civilized owners transformed into screaming, arm-waving maniacs, about 125 dachshunds left the starting line and sometimes headed in the right direction Sunday in the Wiener Dog Races at the Nevada State Fair.

Skinner, a 4-year-old "underdog" who lost in the early rounds last year, out-scrambled his short-legged challengers to become the 2008 "wiener."

It didn't want to come out of its shell at first.

So eighth-graders Katie Portolese and Maria Hite slowly peeled back a part of the egg shell that was chipping away to give the newborn turtle a fighting chance to come out.

"We could tell it was struggling," Maria said.

The annual Huamantla bull run claims more victims including a Red Cross paramedic gored in the head.

At least 19 people have been injured as 24 bulls rampaged through the streets packed with thousands of spectators but the casualty figures are down on the previous year.

From the great animators at Liquid generation, we find this fine piece on Martha Stewart.

Yes the queen of class now teaches us how to fluff a cake with personal gas.

Enjoy

This is Adams St. in Macomb, IL, which earned notoriety on David Letterman and Maxim magazine as the biggest blank street in America.

Okay this wasn't him, but we liked the pic anyway

Flip-flops decorated with miniature heads of U.S. Presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain have given summer fashion a political twist.

The quirky footwear is sold by 'HotFlops', based in Los Angeles. They are the brainchild of Linda Spann who, along with company CEO Sean Jackson, thought the American electorate would get a kick out of the colourful summer shoes.

A monkey evades dozens of net-wielding police officers and chasing press after sitting down on a sign board for more than two hours at a busy station in Tokyo, Japan.

The monkey was spotted at the automatic ticket gates at a train line in Shibuya Station in central Tokyo at about 0940am (0040 GMT).

It seems that he's forgotten what he instructed Paul Bremer to do both during Bremer's stint as Viceroy in Iraq and shortly before pretending to hand over sovereignty to the Iraqis and leaving.

A pair of wheels gives a paralysed tortoise a new lease of life.

The African Spurred Tortoise is paralysed in her two hind legs, but thanks to a pair of skates strapped to her, she leaves the other tortoises in the dust and has even started to mate.

Two people in a small sports plane are left hanging upside down for over two hours after crashing into a power line in southern Germany.

The German-registered plane was about to land at a small regional airport when the plane's wheel touched a 380,000 volt power line and got stuck.

Two Georgia hikers say they have recovered the corpse of a Sasquatch and shared evidence in a press conference Friday in California. The men who made this claim, Matthew Whitton and Rick Dyer, talk with MSNBC Countdown guest host Rachel Maddow about their discovery.

All of the audio is completely edited.. and not to be taken seriously. Even all of the commentator's reactions are from other places and were not originally from these clips... all the way down to the sound of the feet hitting the mats.. are not real lol. this footage is from 2004, not 2008. unfortunately some of the audio is slightly off-sync from what i had after the youtube conversion :

A couple of hunters in northern Georgia (the state, not the country) claim to have found a carcass of the legendary creature known as Bigfoot (or Sasquatch, if you prefer).

The two hunters teamed up with a fellow named Tom Biscardi, head of a group called Searching for Bigfoot; they plan to hold a press conference on Friday in Palo Alto, Calif., to show off DNA evidence and photos--but not the body itself. That's apparently being kept under wraps.

A three-winged goose that was found in Florida recently will have a better life thanks to some human intervention.

The domestic Egyptian goose was found on a golf course near Hollywood in June.

It's three wings made it impossible for the goose to fly, or even walk.

Sandy Allen spent her life overcoming the physical and social barriers that came with being the world's tallest woman.

Born with a tumor on her pituitary gland, she reached 7 feet, 7 1/4 inches. But on Wednesday, she lost her fight against illness at age 53.

A Burger King employee is fired after bathing in a restaurant sink.

An internet video shows the bathtub scene as other employees work around him. Now, they are all in hot water.

Sarah Irwin reports.

Ok this video is a bit long but believe me the angry old guy's insults alone make it totally worth your time.

Catholic nuns and preists in Italy have established an inflatable church on the Adriatic Coast to try and attract new members to their congregation.

The group from the Sentinelle Del Mattino church have set up camp alongside holiday makers.

The man who was once the world's heaviest wants to break another record, this time, for weight loss.

Manuel Uribe has already shed 529 pounds, but he wants to lose another 421 pounds to break the record. His other goals: marrying his girlfriend and having a family.

Fred Katayama reports.

A man running from police officers was impaled on a 7-foot fence.

Police said the 19-year-old man, riding an all-terrain vehicle, collided with a police car and took off running.

Police said the man tried to jump over a metal fence near South 22nd and Dickinson streets about 6:20 p.m. Police are investigating whether he impaled himself jumping the fence or was pulled over the fence by officers trying to arrest him.

Bernann McKinney, 57, became the first paying customer of commercial cloning this week after forking out $53,000 to have her pit bull "Booger" cloned five times in South Korea.

A media investigation has revealed that McKinney almost certainly is the same woman who 30 years ago was accused of kidnapping a Mormon man and forcing him to have sex with her, skipping bail before she could be tried for the crime.

A Jewish girl away from home at college prank calls her parents and tells them she started dating an Italian guy. The father threatens to kill the guy and the mothers comments are priceless.

OK we have proof, that folks in Utah marry cousins, and sometimes siblings.

This all started as a dispute over property, and then escalated when one guy ddecides to build a stonehenge replica, with old cars.

Not for the faint of heart or squeemish.

but get this - a cat is born with 2 faces.

Get this - a woman admits she assaulted her husband with a frozen lasagna.

thank god she didn't have a frozen Turkey.

Only in Tennessee. Yep some Bubba decides to take a school bus for a ride.

Now - how can you not see the security camera stuck to the inside of the windshield.

Video catches a dumb crook.

happens in Florida (ok where else) .. the video catches a thief trying to steal a wallet before beating the victim and then taking off.

Ultimately, the people's choice for Democratic contender may not matter, thanks to the EMOs. PLUS The Political Puppets!

Giuliani has the hots for McCain, Romney has a new hair logo, and Huckleberry ... I mean, Huckabee is afraid of gays.

Hillary picks her ideal running mate ... I mean crying mate.

The South Carolina Democratic Debates proves, once again, that all politicians are a bunch of catty women.

Gabrielle Birchak hosts Gab's V-Blabs - Several Republicans are making distinctions between endorsing and supporting McCain, which has inspired Clinton, Obama and the other Clinton to make distinctions of their own! Oh, the fun never ends