Now, buses to play cupid?

You couldn't make it up: offbeat stories from 2010

Now, buses to play cupid?

You couldn't make it up: offbeat stories from 2010

1. Love Seats

Shoppers at an international luxury fair in Verona, Italy, found a cell-phone-equipped golden coffin among the items on display. The phones will help "the deceased" contact relatives if they have been buried alive by mistake.

3. Paul, the Worldcup Octopus

Paul the octopus, who shot to fame during this year's football World Cup for his flawless record in predicting game results, died peacefully in his sleep in an aquarium.

4. Langurs for security?

Delhi authorities deployed a contingent of langurs -- a large type of monkey -- at Commonwealth Games venues to help chase away smaller simians from the sporting extravaganza.

5. An amputee a swimming champion?

A Frenchman who lost all his limbs in an electrical accident successfully swam across the Channel, a challenge he had been preparing for two years.

6.u00a0Winston Churchill's dentures sold for 18,000 pounds

A set of dentures made for Britain's war-time prime minister Winston Churchill known as "the teeth that saved the world" sold for nearly 18,000 pounds (21,500 euros, 28,000 dollars) at auction.

7.u00a0Strongest and most expensive beer

The strongest and most expensive beer ever created sold out within hours, a Scottish brewery said, as they courted controversy by packaging the bottles inside the bodies of stuffed squirrels and stoats.

8. A British woman sparked an Internet hate campaign after she was caught on camera dumping a cat u00a0 u00a0 u00a0 in a rubbish bin

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A British woman sparked an Internet hate campaign after she was caught on camera dumping a cat in a rubbish bin. She was fined 250 pounds (400 dollars, 280 euros) after pleading guilty.

9. u00a0Dead cannot escape internet!

Even Hong Kong's dead cannot escape the Internet. In Chinese culture, relatives are expected to visit the cemetery at least once a year to pay their respects. But now, mourners can simply visit memorial.gov.hk set up by the government and set up a page free-of-charge.

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