From the Lost Property Dept of the Austrian Times we receive a note asking us to be on the look out for a 1100lb cannon which until yesterday was part of a “Napoleon Festival”. “The weapon – worth 5,000 Euros say police – was taken from a site commemorating a farmers’ insurrection […]

From the Pointless Trivial News deptartment today, a man who said his cat had eaten most of a 500-euro note has been refused a replacement by the German Bundesbank. The administrative court in Frankfurt upheld the federal bank’s refusal to replace the note, after the man failed to provide enough evidence to back […]

A teenage girl agreed to have under-age sex because she wanted to lose her virginity before the Large Hadron Collider caused the end of the world, according to the Telegraph. The girl, who is aged between 13 and 15, had heard rumours that particle accelerator under the Franco-Swiss border would […]

Ah, political correctness and climate change combined…that two-for-one type of story which saves TheEye effort in covering all the bases. In Australia, a Liberal Party (a Conservative, basically) politician refers to a young leftist politician in an “offensive” manner: “Opposition Leader John-Paul Langbroek has been accused of offending women in […]

In the “It Couldn’t Happen To A Nicer Politician” department today, the President of Zambia has banished scores of monkeys from the grounds of his official residence after one urinated on his head during a press conference. More than 200 monkeys live on the State House grounds, but Leader Rupiah […]

Just a bit of humour and light relief. This story is out on the AFP wires about a dust-up between two French districts. Note that it’s between right and left wing areas with the conservative town opening fire first. “French commuters ran head-on into a local political standoff Tuesday after […]

On the day that the leaders of the two main political parties, Peter Mandelson and David Cameron, are being lined up by SKY News for a pre-election debate (preparations are proceding apace; they’ve recruited someone called Clog to carry the drinks) we are luckily reminded that when it comes to […]

Seen over at the unbeatable Croydonian today, this clip from one of the Fox affiliates is so hilariously low budget and, for want of a better word, naff, that it’s well worth watching. For those of you with a geekish slant, 38secs in is a pure C|N>K * moment. Enjoy. […]

There is a film where the subject of a psychological evaluation is shown a series of inkblots, the famous Rorschach Test, and asked to say the first thing which came into his mind. For all 10 he replied instantly – breasts. As there are no right or wrong answers, it’s […]