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GOOD WEEK FOR:
Bizarre acts of strength, after a British TV company made a documentary film about a 50-year-old Chinese man who pulled a truck across a car park using only his penis. The man is an expert in the Chinese art of breathing, Qigong, and has 60,000 followers worldwide as his exploits supposedly increase energy and improve sexual performance.
A 15-year-old Indian boy, who claims to have been meditating without food or water for six months. More than 100,000 devotees have travelled across India to a dense forest in Nepal to see the boy who they believe is an incarnation of Buddha.
Enrique Iglesias (the boyfriend of tennis star Anna Kournikova), who is launching a range of extra-small condoms. Iglesias said: “I can never find extra small condoms and I know it’s really embarrassing – from experience”.
A woman weighing 47kg, who has won the world turkey-eating title by eating a whole roast turkey in 12 minutes.
BAD WEEK FOR:
Professional women, after new research in the US concludes that women who want to progress their careers should avoid looking too sexy. The report suggests that items such as short skirts, high heels and low-cut tops negatively affected career prospects.
A man who divorced his wife in Iran; the law in Iran states that before a marriage the couple must sign an agreement in which the bride specifies how much alimony she should get in the event of a divorce. In this case, the woman decided on $15 million in gold coins – and the divorce court ruled that the amount should be paid by the husband. The court ruled that the man must pay his divorced wife one gold coin a month for the next 10,000 years!
People with large bottoms, after researchers in Ireland found that large bottoms are causing doctors problems when it comes to giving injections because the needles are not long enough to get through the layers of fat. The report recommends using longer needles.
A US man convicted of stealing mail; after two months in jail the man must write to apologise to his victims, work in a mail centre dealing with people whose post is lost or stolen, and spend eight hours wearing a sandwich board saying: "I stole mail. This is my punishment."
An Indian man, who was so fed up by his wife’s constant nagging that he used a needle and thread to sew the poor woman's lips together. It seems that the wife often demanded that her husband gave up alcohol because his drinking meant that they had no money to provide for their four children
Forty German travel agents, who were on a sponsored trip to learn about tourism opportunities in South Africa. The group was robbed at gunpoint in their tour bus in a township near Cape Town.
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