U.S President Barack Obama has explained how he and first lady Michelle Obama plan to keep their daughters from getting tattoos."What we've said to the girls is, 'If you guys ever decided you're going to get a tattoo, then mommy and I will get the exact same tattoo in the same place. And we'll go on YouTube and show it off as a family tattoo," Obama said. "And our thinking is that might dissuade t

An audience member at a circus who popped to the loo found herself sharing the bathroom with an escaped tiger.Jenna Krehbiel came face to face with the big cat when she took her three-year-old daughter to the toilet during a show by the Isis Shrine Circus in Kansas.The tiger had performed in the show but slipped off after its turn in the limelight at the Bicentennial Center venue in the city of Sa

A Mormon bishop armed with a Samurai sword came to the defense of his neighbor on Tuesday in a Salt Lake City suburb by helping to chase away a man who had accosted the woman, police said.The 37-year-old suspect, Grant Eggertsen, later turned himself in to authorities and was booked into jail on suspicion of robbery, burglary, trespassing and stalking, said local police spokesman Lieutenant Just

When Nozipho got the call that her 17-year-old son had died from stab wounds she says she felt no pain.The teenager had lived as a gang member who had robbed, stolen and done battle on the streets."I am happy that my son is dead," she said."I cried no tears. I felt as if a heavy weight had been lifted from my shoulders," said Nozipho Nyovane (41), the mother of three from Browns Farm in Philippi,

U.S. authorities are investigating the slayings of five people whose bodies were found in a house in the tiny Scott County community of Manchester. A suspect is in custody.Illinois State Police spokeswoman Monique Bond says the victims were found early Wednesday morning in the southwestern Illinois community, 50 miles west of Springfield. She didn't have any details on the deaths or the circumstan

A traditional healer from Durban, South Africa Mbuso "Mafenswa" Makhathini, 42 believes pythons empower him to cure disease and foresee events.Apparently thieves are too frightened to steal the pile of cash he keeps in the back seat of his flashy car because the snakes keep guard. "These snakes are my ancestors," said Mafenswa."When I graduated as a herbalist in 2001 after intensive training

CAPE TOWN - South African social rights activist and retired Anglican bishop Desmond Tutu has checked into a local hospital where he will undergo a series of tests to discover the cause of a persistent infection.The Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation said his condition is not at all serious.The foundation added Tutu was in high spirits before booking into hospital.

Nasa's $800m Mars Exploration twin Rovers which were launched some nine years ago to look for any signs of life or water on the red planet have accidentally drawn a penis.According to Nasa, since then the rovers have driven over more than 10km of Martian land, directed by teams back on Earth combined with autonomous cameras designed to avoid potential problems with the terrain.It appears that par

A UK teenager who lost his hand to meningitis has become the first in Britain to be fitted with a revolutionary bionic replacement - operated using an iPhone.Patrick Kane, 16, can now control his state-of-the-art left hand using a mobile application on his iPhone 5 which gives him 24 different pre-set grips.He can create favourite grips and configure the settings on his arm for different situation

Two whistle-blowers have appeared before the Senate in Abuja, Nigeria and admitted paying N250,000 each to secure appointments in the Ministries of Lands and Housing, Information, Works, Trade and Investment, aided principally by staff of the federal agencies.Mrs. Rose Nkarishor Odey and Idachaba Tijani told the Senate Committee on Federal Character and Inter-Governmental Affairs that the job-for-

Saul Padi belives a tokoloshe (goblin) with dreadlocks keeps calling him.He says the creature keeps him awake at night, sending SMS and keeps on calling him at work during the day. Apparently it also sends insulting written messages or makes calls to his girlfriend's cellphone.The tokoloshe comes to 40-year-old Saul in the form of a dreadlocked man, but it uses a woman's voice when it calls him, h

A chilling video has surfaced showing children as young as five being training to become Al Qaeda terrorists.The video shows the terror tykes firing pistols, AK-47s and larger machine guns

A 29-year-old Illinois high school teacher arrested for sleeping with a 16-year-old student in the back of her car wishes "with all her heart" that she could "take it all back."Cops caught Ashley Blumenshine with the teen in her vehicle parked outside a Plainfield, Ill. Kohl's department store in 2011.They found a used condom, with officers believing the pair - who had been seeing each other for

Five high school students in Indonesia who recorded themselves praying and dancing to a Maroon 5 song, have been expelled.They also face time in juvenile detention for "tainting religion" after the video surfaced on the Internet.The five girls were trying to kill time between an hour long break from classes in the afternoon of March 9 when they made the video.The headmaster of the school, Muallimi

A video described as "Nasty Street Fight In Zimbabwe!" has been posted on YouTube.The video starts off with a dread-locked man who appears to be a street vender provoking another man.The man attempts to throw a punch at the man who's folding his arms but the punch is blocked. The other man then goes out of view but a few moments later he appears with what seems like a brick and strikes the drea