Bizarre News

In a spine-chilling discovery, Belgian authorities found that a woman had been sleeping next to her dead husband's decomposed corpse for one year. Distressed with her husband's death of an asthma attack in November 2012, the woman failed to report the death and continued to sleep with the body. Neighbours never reported a bad smell, as the body had mummified.

Ending their 14-year old marriage, media tycoon Rupert Murdoch (82), who leads the 20th Century Fox and News Corp, has reached a divorce settlement with his wife Wendi Deng Murdoch. However, they have jointly stated that the settlement was amicable and will have a shared interest in their daughters' welfare. It was the third marriage for Rupert Murdoch.

A man who committed suicide in China opted to kill his neighbour first so that he could have him as a partner to play chess in heaven! The 54-year-old, named as Liao, killed his 57-year-old neighbour before committing suicide Tuesday night in order to have a chess partner after death, Shanghai Daily reported Liao as informing in his suicide note.

In its 39th annual list of banished words, Lake Superior State University of Michigan has found "Selfie" as the most irritating word followed by "Twerk” or “twerking" and "Hashtag". Since 1975, the university has been announcing a batch of words to banish due to overuse and other faults. Reportedly, there were more than 2,000 nominations this year.

A family in Gujarat found a five-feet long crocodile in their bathroom, last week. When an inmate, Bharat Patel was entering the bathroom of his house in the Anand district, he spotted the crocodile and immediately locked the door from outside. The forest officials were informed in time and they took away the animal, and released it in a lake.