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.
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.
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.
The bride, the groom and the minister perform the marriage in a three-way, wing-walking stunt.
Two daring lovers decided to take the plunge by taking their wedding vows strapped to the top wing of separate bi-planes 1,000 feat over the English countryside.
Christmas came early as St. Nicholas dressed in a swimming costume and abandoned his vacation to help kick off Christmas world at Harrods department store in London.
With only 141 shopping days left until Christmas, Harrods helped kick off the hectic season by inviting St. Nicholas to launch Christmas world on Tuesday (August 5).
Two Dutch climbers are treated in a North Pakistan hospital after 11 die on the world's second highest mountain K2.
In the worst accident ever on the mountain rescuers managed to save a few members of the stricken climbing parties including the two Dutch men and Italian climber, Marco Confortola.
Wild video of a Japanese Escalator that gets a mind of it's own.
Didn't they do a movie about this?
Boy that the pitbull should think twice about biting, South Korean ice bar, the celebration of the navel, and backhoe painting.
Six years after losing his arms in an industrial accident on a farm, a 54-year-old man undergoes the world's first double arm transplant.
The man had tried and failed to use artificial limbs before he approached a doctor at the university clinic Rechts der Isar in the southern German city of Munich.
The American comedy duo who shot to stardom in the 70's with routines based on the liberal use of marijuana are going ontour in the U.S..
Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong say their bitter feud over "creative differences" has gone up in smoke and - come September - they'll be hitting the U.S. comedy circuit for the first time in more than 25 years.
Susan Flory reports.
A Missouri woman says she has found Jesus in a bag of Cheetos. When Kelly Ramey opened a snack-sized bag of Cheetos, she felt something unusual and checked it out.
Most of her family and friends believe it looks like a mini orange sculpture of Jesus on the cross. Ramey and her husband call it "Cheesus." Others see something completely different.
A kitten is being called a "Holy Cat," or a feline with Jesus on her side? literally.
Ten weeks ago, a family from Goshen, Indiana rescued two kittens after their mother abandoned them.
The family noticed one of the kittens, Sissy, had markings on her fur that look like Jesus.
Meet Princess Chunky, a 44-pound cat, who is just two pounds shy of the 1987 Guinness World Record for overweight cats.
South Jersey, to be sure, has seen its fair share of the indictable variety, but never before has it seen the likes of the portly pussycat found waddling in Voorhees.
The annual 12-hour lawnmower race in Pulborough, England saw little grass cut as the bladeless mowers raced through the night.
This year's race was dubbed 'The grass roots of motor sports' and 56 teams battled overnight from 8 p.m. on Saturday (July 26th) to 8 a.m. on Sunday (July 27th) to claim top honours in the most prestigious lawnmower race on the planet.
Bridal boot camp, Santa Congress, tortoise coupling, and swamp soccer top this week's Oddly Enough video.
Jul 26 - Hundreds of Indians pierce their bodies as a way of giving thanks to the goddess Mariamman.
Devotees flocked to Chennai in southern India to celebrate a Hindu tradition.
Over 1,000 people have taken part in an annual bellybutton painting festival in a Japanese town.
Festival -goers gathered in the streets of Shibukawa city, north of the Japanese capital Tokyo to celebrate their naval and shout, "Belly-button festival".
Although there is no shortage of subscribers to theories that 'we are not alone’, the fact that Edgar Mitchell, who holds the joint record for the longest moon walk, is among them will come as a surprise to many.
56-year-old Keith Walendowski has been charged with misdemeanor disorderly conduct while armed and felony possession of a short-barreled shotgun or rifle after he opened fire on his lawn mower which he was having trouble starting.
Cop has close call with drunk driver
A plumber working on restaurant renovations in Salinas said he found the image of the Virgin Mary in a floor drain Wednesday.
The man was working on the drainage system for the upcoming Old Town Bar & Grill restaurant, which is housed in the same building as a former Spados restaurant, when he noticed the strange image.The building has seen several ventures come and go in the past six years since Spados closed down, and the new owner said he sees the sign as a blessing of hope for the new restaurant.
An elderly chimp who climbed to the roof of a zoo to escape the heat defied the attempts of workers to get him down until they offered him a banana.
A six-legged fawn was recovered in the Everett Springs community this weekend after it sustained injuries from two dogs.
Bill O'Reilly Told Viewers that Al Gore lost his credibility when he attended the Netroots convention.
This New gaffe and more.
A rare find in Arkansas, where they have found conjoined birds.
Creepy Video
A US Soccer team subdued another flier, who took off his clothes and tried to open an emergency exit door.
Do you believe in magic?
Check out this report by Keith Miller
An enigma for thousands of years. Stonehenge may finally be giving up its ancient secrets.
And it could be a healing site.
Oh what Americans will do, to keep that Hummer rollin
Gotta love trailer trash, most when it's caught on tape.
Americans Polled on - who would be the better kisser - McCain or Obama
A Florida nudist resorts decission to host sex parties, in hopes of getting a younger crowd, has caused it to lose it's family friendly stamp of approval.
An Alligator has been spotted in a lake in Plainfield Ill. and guess what - no-one can catch it.
Would you buy a condo from a babe in a Bikini?
An american developer thinks so
Country Music fans call it the running of the rednecks.
Fans race for spots to watch the jamboree in the Hills music festival.
Oh sometimes there is justice. George W sewer plant.
perfect fit
Love this - Florida cop gets the sack after demanding free coffee.
Heavy metal monk wows fans
Thousands Hooked on Hindu Piercing Festival
More than 50-thousand showed for a recent Hindu piercing festival in Singapore.
