One suffered a broken foot, the other was pushed over and now one of the 18 life-size sculptures on the Sea Point promenade has been stolen.
The long-lost love letter to a US college student is on its way to him after a delay of more than 50 years.
Russell Brand was told to leave Japan because of his criminal past after he flew into the country with his wife Katy Perry.
A British man has got a royal wedding tattoo with the wrong date on.
An Egyptian man has named his baby girl Facebook.
A song by a California teenager that has been mercilessly panned by music critics has topped 30 million views on YouTube and rocketed up iTunes charts.
Johnny Depp has been crowned "hat person of the year", beating out other celebrity hat-wearers including singer Gwen Stefani and Hugh Jackman.
Vicus Visser has acquired Gareth Cliff as a manager, and will be recording three songs at a studio in Johannesburg.
A California couple whose wedding plans appeared thwarted have married in a ceremony conducted over Skype.
A rock has emerged as a star of the Christchurch earthquake, gaining a name, a personality and a value, as well as becoming a symbol of the devastation.
Lingerie and luggage once owned by Wallis Simpson, the divorcée who shook the British monarchy, are due to be auctioned off.
Gross or tasty? A London company is offering an unusual dessert - ice cream made with human breast milk.
Parents are three times more likely to allow their adult sons to return to the family home than daughters, a survey has revealed.
A Mexican teenager is staging a hunger strike in a bid to secure an invitation to the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton.
Both men and women felt it was slightly more alluring to see someone reading a book than wielding an iPad or smartphone, a study has found.
A London museum is throwing caution to the wind for an exhibition on sex in the animal kingdom - just in time for Valentine's Day.
Several Malaysian states are planning a crackdown on "immoral acts" during Valentine's Day as part of a campaign to encourage a sin-free lifestyle.
A high percentage of people say they believe texting, Facebook and other social networking tools cause new couples to jump into bed faster.
A US man's invention will ensure people no longer have to walk to the fridge to get a beer.
A viral video has propelled a homeless man, who was filmed begging for money with a baritone-rich radio voice, to national attention.
Sri Lanka has said it was considering banning mini-skirts following complaints about women wearing skimpy clothing in the conservative island nation.
A 110-year-old man who has been looking for a wife said he was ready to marry again after an 82-year-old woman responded to his wish.
Enthusiastic Australians are camped out at parks alongside the Sydney Harbour Bridge to win the best view of spectacular New Year's Eve fireworks.
Animal rescue officers have been called in after a dog mysteriously got his head stuck in a wall.
South Korea's Supreme Court has ruled that the salary of an intelligence agent is a state secret even from his wife.
Science campaigners have laid bare some of the most dubious celebrity-endorsed health tips.
Looking forward to a new year was not enough for some New Yorkers. First, they needed to shred the bad bits of 2010.
Fans of Apple's iPhone who just can't get enough of the popular gadget can now travel to Japan to gobble up a tasty cookie modelled on the popular smartphone.
A drunk New Zealander has admitted to hijacking a Mr Whippy van at knifepoint and hurling ice creams at passers-by during a vanilla and alcohol-fuelled rampage.
Hundreds of people dressed as Santa Claus have descended on London, startling commuters and tourists with a tide of seasonal cheer.
South Korea's government is close to adopting a "Cinderella" law to ban youngsters from playing online games past midnight.
Dutch brewers have come up with a new product which allows dogs to join their owners for a beer.
A row has erupted over a Spanish election video, which sees a woman simulate an orgasm as she casts her vote.
A group of "crush fetishists" has caused an online storm in China after uploading graphic videos showing attractive young Chinese women crushing small rabbits.
A couple says they are leaving the decision about whether they should get an abortion up to an online poll posted on a website.
A US pastor has ordered his church officials to cancel their Facebook accounts because of of "marital problems" he blames on the site.
People spend about half of their time thinking about being somewhere else, or doing something other than what they are doing, making them unhappy, a study has found.
Experts have concluded that an airliner likely caused a billowing contrail off California that resembled a missile plume illuminated by the setting sun.
Domino's Pizza Japan, Inc is offering a 2.5 million yen part-time job commemorating the 25th anniversary of its arrival in Japan.
Knut, a 4-year-old polar bear at the Berlin Zoo, is having a hard time with the three females in his new enclosure, keepers have said.
One of Britain's largest police forces is putting every incident it deals with for 24 hours on the twitter website to highlight the amount of work officers deal with.
A firm that sells warranties for gadgets has said that Apple's latest iPhone is nearly twice as likely as its predecessor to crack in a accident.
A popular Japanese cabinet minister has apologised after a photo shoot she did in the parliament building for the local edition of Vogue drew fire from opposition parties.
Britons in their late 30s are unhappier than any other age group, suffering from loneliness and depression as work and relationship pressures take their toll.
While some say chocolate does not go with wine, a new trend in Asia sees gourmands mixing the two together.
Germany's Oktoberfest beer party is rising to a new challenge - stinky drinking halls - with a new weapon: Stench-eating bacteria.
It's not just people who have different accents but bats as well develop dialects depending on where they live which can help identify and protect different species.
President Nicolas Sarkozy has become the latest world leader to fall victim to "Google bombing", with his Facebook page now associated with a derogatory term.
Filming with animals can be frightening for actors but a man living in a tiny apartment in Tehran with wide array of animals says he can help.
A surplus of cats is giving a second life to a decayed Taiwanese town by helping it reinvent itself as a feline lover's paradise.
A man from the Ivory Coast is in police custody in Abu Dhabi after allegedly persuading a woman to try to exchange two phony $1m notes.
Sylvain "Gunther Love" Quimene of France has won the annual Air Guitar World Championships for the second time in a row, the event's organisers in Finland have said.
It is the prettiest bug in town - bubblegum pink, vanishingly rare and was likely headed for an early demise in a bird's beak.
A 13-year-old Hong Kong schoolgirl has been sentenced to a two-year probation for threatening to kill her mother for confiscating her cellphone.
A Venezuelan politician is offering breast implants as a prize in a raffle to raise funds for his election campaign.
A 274kg woman believed to be the heaviest in Thailand has left her apartment for the first time in three years with the help of a forklift.
The latest high-tech toilet - it doubles as a medical lab that can give its users an instant health check-up every time they answer the call of nature.
A Japanese man has admitted to burning down his family home after his mother threw away some of his favourite robot toys.
A Labrador that ate a beehive containing pesticides and thousands of dead bees has won an award, beating two other 'hungry' dogs.
Pope Benedict XVI has banned his followers from bringing vuvuzelas to his public appearances in the UK in September, a British newspaper has reported.
Japan's ancient sport of sumo is embracing the latest high-tech, with its governing body set to distribute Apple's iPad to wrestlers.
A US woman has had Paul McCartney's signature permanently etched onto her body after the musical icon answered her pleas to sign her back.
Italy's fabled "Latin lovers" are missing the mark with foreign belles, according to a poll that said nearly four in five women tourists were unmoved by Italian men's charms.
After a disappointing Cup, Wayne Rooney is unlikely to be cheered by his latest accolade: "2nd ugliest footballer" on the planet.
An Austrian goldsmith says he has made a €17 000 vuvuzela that was ordered by a Russian business person.
A 19-year-old German football fan's remakes of World Cup matches using Lego figures have become an internet sensation.
With the vuvuzelas failing to provide a boost to Bafana, some locals are turning to other, far more imaginative means of help.
The International Quidditch Association has staged an exhibition in New York's Central Park, with high school and college teams from around the Northeastern US competing.
A Canadian man is selling a photograph taken in 1860 which he claims is of Hollywood actor John Travolta.
Budapest's city council has named Elvis Presley an honorary citizen of the Hungarian capital.
More than 100 men, some who have spent hours manicuring their facial hair, will compete this weekend in Norway at an international championship for moustache and beard growth.
The bride's dress, it can now be revealed, is made of wool. So are the groom, the guests and the royal corgi.
A miniature horse born without most of his right rear leg now acts like he's born to run, thanks to a new prosthetic leg.
A Red Tibetan Mastiff puppy has become the most expensive dog in the world after being sold for $1.5m in China.
A teenager has been arrested for hijacking a girl's Facebook page and posting an open invitation to her 16th birthday party that drew over 200 000 positive replies.
A global art collective has released an antidote for online Charlie Sheen overload - software that edits the headline-grabbing celebrity out of web pages.
There was a time when LOL - "laughing out loud" - was so simple.
Scientists have made a surprising discovery - the more options you have for choosing a lover, the likelier you are to end up with no one.
The Survivor South Africa: Maldives contestant has described the "desperate" situation on the island that drove her to eat rat meat.
A young singing sensation has caused a media frenzy after a newspaper published his photo asking, "Where in the world is Vicus?"
A TV reporter who has lapsed into gibberish during a live shot outside the Grammys suffered a migraine, her doctors have said.
A teen has told police that bite marks on her body came from Twilight-inspired vampire role playing - not from someone who attacked her while she was out jogging.
Scientists are encouraged by initial results of a revolutionary "thinking cap" that aims to promote creativity by passing low levels of electricity through the brain.
If you really loved your meal at one New York restaurant, you can now walk out with the skin of the animal you ate.
Researchers have found a new way to predict the success of a relationship - compare the speaking style of a couple.
Students and faculty at China's top university are being told they can no longer photocopy documents considered subversive.
Two-thirds of American pet owners say their pets have a sixth sense about bad weather.
A Malaysian man abandoned his wife after a temple medium convinced him that she was a demon who wanted to kill him.
A lottery player nearly lost millions in winnings after tossing tickets in the rubbish only to later discover they were winners.
A Michigan factory worker used as the unwitting model for the wartime Rosie the Riveter poster has died.
A clinic that gives nurses who work with premature babies an annual bonus when they wash their hands properly has seen a 30% drop in hospital-spread disease.
A crown prince in the United Arab Emirates is offering free housing and other aid to the impoverished parents of newborn sextuplets.
Some weird, wild and wonderful stories from 2010.
A 92-year-old man has chewed through restraints to free himself after two men robbed his house.
The 33 Chilean miners who survived 69 days trapped underground before emerging to the surface have been named the team of the year by The Times newspaper.
It began with an innocent legacy from an elderly aunt, when she bequeathed Jean-Guy Laquerre an early 20th-century papier-mache Santa Claus figure two decades ago.
Pakistani advertisers in the feminine hygiene business have harnessed the political notoriety of WikiLeaks to tell women that while the US State Department might leak, they don't have to.
In the latest embarrassment for US diplomacy, WikiLeaks has revealed that the US ambassador to Pretoria described a former South African envoy as "a cross between Mata Hari and Miss Piggy".
The Vatican says Pope Benedict XVI would gladly use a solar popemobile as another sign of his efforts to promote sustainable energy.
A confectioner's new treat - a cake packed full of a one-celled organism called euglena - is said to contain a wide range of minerals and vitamins.
Smartphones and Twitter were the hottest products in Japan in 2010 and travel and leisure were back on the menu, an ad agency survey has showed.
The Israeli military has said its monitoring of Facebook has helped catch 1 000 women lying about their religious background to avoid serving.
Gennaro D'Amato and colleagues have treated a man whose asthma attacks were apparently sparked by logging into Facebook and seeing how many men his ex-girlfriend had "friended".
A gay couple from Texas has tied the knot by using online communications platform Skype to circumvent their state's ban on same-sex marriages.
A same-sex vulture couple at a German zoo are to be split up this week after spending several months building a nest together.
Twitter jokes about Vietnam by one of Philippine president Benigno Aquino's speechwriters has led to a social media crackdown on government officials.
Vuvuzelas can not only make you deaf, but give you a genuine pain in the neck, doctors have said.
A female student at university attended class only to find she was not the first to arrive and had been beaten to it by a young male chimpanzee.
Life with the family dog will give young children loyal companionship - and, in some cases, even better health, a study has found.
Obese workers cost US employers billions a year, much of it due to being less productive on the job due to health problems, a study has found.
Being rejected can not only break your heart but also put the brakes on it, a small study conducted in the Netherlands has found.
Four Australian women have nabbed the world record for the fastest relay race in stiletto heels.
Obesity puts a drag on the wallet as well as health, especially for women, a new report has found.
Security firm PC Tools has released a study showing that nearly a quarter of US residents think it is fine to be "plugged in" to the internet during sex.
A European study has found that men who move their necks and trunks more to the beat are most likely to attract women.
Marketers are advocating buying cheap products designed to save consumers money - and sales are climbing.
Older people like reading negative news stories about their younger counterparts because it boosts their own self-esteem, a study has found.
Researchers in India have developed a wine made from mangoes that they hope might one day compete with the traditional grape-based variety.
In a remote Serbian mountain village, they're cooking up delicacies to make your mouth water, or your stomach churn, at the seventh annual World Testicle Cooking Championship.
Sylvain "Gunther Love" Quimene of France has won the annual Air Guitar World Championships for the second time in a row, the event's organisers in Finland have said.
A man has cut off his penis at Madrid's Barajas airport in order to avoid being extradited home.
British Airways has apologised after passengers on a flight from London to Hong Kong were mistakenly told to prepare for a crash landing, causing panic onboard.
Terrified passengers flying from London to Hong Kong braced for a possible crash into the sea after a pilot mistakenly played an emergency message, a newspaper has reported.
Lovers of the world's most expensive coffee, found half-digested in the dung of the wild civet, fear that its unique taste may be spoiled by planned farming.
Taiwan's military has banned its soldiers from napping, or even closing their eyes, while wearing their uniforms in public.
A massive traffic jam in north China that stretches for dozens of kilometres has hit its 10-day mark and may continue into the middle of September.
A German man has been given a shock diagnosis by doctors after complaining of a pimple in his scalp; he had been shot – about five years ago.
Federal agents are seeking to hire Ebonics translators to help interpret wiretapped conversations involving targets of undercover drug investigations.
A 12-year-old boy had permission to drive the family pick-up truck to the end of the driveway, but he kept going until he was stopped nearly 160km away.
A 78-year-old man rode a Pittsburgh-area roller coaster 90 times in one day - bringing his lifetime total to 4 000 rides.
A Spanish town has requested that Paul, the "psychic" octopus, be allowed to join them as a guest of honour this year.
A London arts centre is compiling an archive of poetry and phrases in the city's historic Cockney dialect as it is dying out.
An octopus that has correctly picked the winner of Germany's games so far, has tipped Germany to beat England in Sunday's match.
Two Swedish journalists are searching for a dirty, grey teddy bear named Palle that went missing during a World Cup match in Durban.
Pharmacies are starting to run out of ear plugs, as fans scramble to protect their hearing against the deafening sound of vuvuzelas.