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A rock band consisting of robots, including a four-armed drummer and a guitarist with 78 "fingers", have played their first public gigs over the past few days.

Malian authorities will give French President Francois Hollande another camel after the one they gave him in thanks for helping repel Islamist rebels was killed and eaten by the family he left it with in Timbuktu, an official in Mali said.

A mystery man dressed as Batman demonstrated the same crime-fighting skills as the caped crusader when he handed over a suspect wanted for burglary in Britain.

George the Giant, towering over onlookers gathered to see performers swallow steel, hammers a 16.5cm nail up his nostril, rips a phone book in half with his bare hands and dangles a full bottle of Coke from his eyelids with fish hooks.

The exhibit in Vienna's Leopold Museum is entitled "Naked Men", so a group of nudists and naturalists took the curators at their word and showed up to see it in the buff.

Scavenging canines have been left bleary-eyed after inadvertently feasting on cannabis while on walkies in northwest England.

World tennis No 1 Novak Djokovic has bought the world's supply of donkey cheese.

A stylishly dressed five-month old monkey that caused a frenzy as it wandered around the parking lot of a Toronto-area Ikea store will be transferred to a sanctuary, officials say.

An eastern China "nail house" that drew global media attention earlier this month for its eye-catching location in the midst of a roadway was demolished over the weekend, after the owner reversed himself and accepted compensation he had deemed unacceptable for more than a year prior.

The American trend of surname blending is gaining traction in Britain, producing some interesting results. Just ask Mr and Mrs Puffin.

An Asian elephant named Koshik can imitate human speech, saying words in Korean that can be understood by speakers of the language, researchers from the University of Vienna say.

A wide array of talent has been on show as participants chase their dreams of world record glory at this year's Impossibility Challenger in Hungary.

A prominent Vienna museum has decided to cover the "intimate parts" of three naked male football players on big posters put up in the Austrian capital after they caused an outcry.

An Italian beach bar owner who climbed onto the dome of St Peter's Basilica in Rome to protest against plans to open up the country's seafront business sector to more competition has come down after a 24-hour protest.

The frozen corpse that has inspired a Colorado town's whimsical "Frozen Dead Guy Days" celebration may soon be put on ice somewhere else, but festival organizers said the body's removal will not have a chilling effect on the annual event.

In an annual Fourth of July rite of indigestion, champion hot dog-eater Joey 'Jaws' Chestnut matched his own world record by chowing down 68 wieners and buns in just 10 minutes at New York's Coney Island.

The saying "timing is everything" has a new meaning for Texas man Bob Russell.