Russian women are reportedly paying up to 20,000 rubles ($245) for tiny wigs that they glue to their pubic area for a more natural look inspired by the 1990s.

According to Russian media, the popularity of pubic hair wigs has skyrocketed in recent months, inspired by a naturalness trend sweeping Russia. Both young men and women are flocking to specialty online stores and marketplaces to look for realistic pubic wigs. You’re probably asking yourself why on Earth someone would need such a bizarre accessory, but the answer is pretty simple. Most users want to adhere to the natural look of the nether regions inspired by the 90s era, but don’t really want to grow their own hair, for multiple reasons. Some have opted for permanent hair removal, others just don’t want to deal with the itchiness of growing hair, so the wigs are the perfect solution.

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A young couple in Bhopal, India, has initiated divorce proceedings after repeated failed attempts to get their pets, a dog and a cat, to get along in the family home.

According to sources from a Bhopal Family Court, the unnamed couple initially bonded over their love for animals, became friends, and later married, so it is more than a little ironic that the love for their respective pets may be what breaks them apart. After tying the knot in December 2024, the couple moved in together, and that’s when things started going south. The wife said her husband’s dog harassed and even attacked her cat repeatedly, while he claimed he had made it clear before marriage that the woman would not bring her pets when they moved in together, adding that her cat would hover over their fish tank, creating tension in the house.

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A German woman caught by police transporting a Shetland pony in the back seat of her pink car refused to pay a €35 ($41) fine and now faces administrative proceedings.

Earlier this month, police in Alsdorf, near Aachen, Germany, pulled over a suspicious pink car after seeing something strange through the rear window. Upon popping open the trunk, police officers came face to face with a cute Shetland pony sitting on a small carpet rolled over the reclined rear seats with a bucket of feed in front of it. The animal seemed quite calm, suggesting that this wasn’t its first ride-along, and the woman didn’t seem to acknowledge that there was anything wrong. She had simply tied the small horse with a tope to a metal eyelet, which she seemed to believe was safe enough. Not even the policeman’s explanation that, in case of a traffic accident at a speed of 50 km/h, a 150-kilogram pony would be hurled forward with a force of 7.5 tonnes changed her mind.

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A South Korean man found himself at the center of a controversial legal battle after criticizing the appearance of  Plave, a K-pop boy band made up of five digital avatars.

Digital models and influencers are all the rage online these days, with some of them raking in millions for their creators, but Plave isn’t your run-of-the-mill AI-generated K-pop group. Yes, the five members – Yejun, Noah, Bamby, Eunho, and Hamin – are digitally rendered, but they are the rendering of five real-life artists’ performances using motion capture technology. This makes criticizing the group in an otherwise harmless post on X (Twitter) problematic, as one South Korean man recently learned. After posting a negative comment about the look of Plave’s members, the unidentified man was sued for 6.5 million won in compensation for each of the group’s members.

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A Chinese man went viral after spending almost an hour with his head stuck in a traffic light after crashing into it with an electric scooter.

A shockingly bizarre traffic accident got a lot of attention on Chinese social media last month, when a young man driving an electric scooter crashed into a temporary traffic light in the city of Chengdu. Following the impact, the man’s head somehow became stuck inside the traffic light, and firefighters were called to free him from the unusual cage. That was easier said than done, however, as even the first responders spent around 40 minutes cutting away at the metal casing to safely release the man’s head. The man was then taken to a local hospital and made a full recovery, but he’ll have a much tougher time recovering from the hilarious online jokes the incident inspired.

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According to a report by Chinese media outlet Guangming, tooth tattoos are emerging as a new trend among China’s younger generations.

Engraving symbols and images on your teeth sounds like a bad idea if you value oral health, but tooth tattoos are not quite as stupid as they sound. They are not tattooed directly on the teeth but on the surface of a crown made using 3D printing technology and then placed over the real tooth. One of the main appeals is that, unlike skin tattoos, which can’t easily be removed, tooth tattoos can be changed by simply replacing the crown. While some believe that skin tattoos are outdated and tooth tattoos are a new and cool way to express oneself, others simply opt for it when offered as a service by dental clinics. Instead of a bland crown, they can get a personalized model that makes them stand out or brings them luck.

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An 11-year-old boy in Changsha, China, required medical attention after doing homework and studying for 14 hours straight under the supervision of his parents.

China’s obsession with curricular excellence is no secret, but in some extreme cases, it can literally put kids’ lives in danger. Case in point, an 11-year-old boy was recently hospitalized after doing homework from 8 am to 10 pm without any rest. By 11 pm, the boy became agitated and developed rapid breathing, dizziness, headaches, and numbness in his limbs. His parents, who had been supervising him all day at the family home in Changsha, panicked and took him to a local hospital, where he was diagnosed with respiratory problems due to hyperventilation.

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In a controversial social experiment, a young Russian woman signed away her soul for 100,000 rubles ($1,180), which she used to buy a Labubu doll collection and a concert ticket.

It all started as a joke from a marketing expert who identified himself as Dmitri on the Russian social network Telegram. He posted an ad offering to pay 100,000 rubles to whoever agreed to sell their soul and make it official by signing a contract with their own blood. He didn’t expect anyone to accept the bizarre offer, but to his surprise, a 26-year-old woman replied to his ad, declaring her interest in selling her soul. Dmitri kept up his part of the bargain, posting the receipt for the soul sale and a photo of the young woman holding the blood-signed contract, with her personal information blacked out.

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An Indiana bankruptcy lawyer named Mark Zuckerberg has filed a lawsuit against the Meta CEO whose name he shares for repeatedly banning him on his social platforms.

It’s not easy being Mark Zuckerberg. No, not the Facebook founder, but an Indiana bankruptcy lawyer whose life has been negatively affected by sharing the younger tech maven’s name. Not only does he get over 100 emails every day from people who think that they are writing to the Meta chief executive officer, but he can rarely make a reservation at a restaurant without getting hung up on because people mistake him for a prankster. But the thing that irritates him the most is getting banned on Facebook and Instagram despite investing tens of thousands of dollars in ads for the simple reason that his name is Mark Zuckerberg.

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Videos featuring smart toilet paper dispensers that require people to watch short ads to receive toilet paper strips in public toilets have gone viral in China.

Ever since it started its new era of booming national tourism, China has experimented with ingenious ways of preventing toilet paper waste. Back in 2017, international news outlets reported the introduction of facial scanners connected to toilet paper dispensers that only offered one 60-cm-long strip of paper per scan, or every nine minutes. It was reported that the system was implemented at popular tourism spots where people took as much toilet paper as possible for fear of not finding any when they came back later. AI technology was introduced in 2019, when toilet paper dispensers began dispensing strips of paper once every 10 minutes per individual user. But now, technology has evolved even more with toilet paper dispensers that play ads to release short strips of paper.

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A child in Shanghai, China, could not be issued a birth certificate and scheduled for vaccinations one year after his birth because the parents couldn’t settle on a name.

The Pudong New Area People’s Court in Shanghai recently heard a divorce case involving a couple who registered their marriage in 2023 and had a healthy baby boy the following year. Everything started going downhill from there because they couldn’t settle on a name for the child. Each party insisted on naming the child according to their own wishes and demanded that the other provide the original documents and a power of attorney, but neither of them gave in. Evidence presented in Court showed that they went to the hospital separately to try to have their preferred name registered for the child, but both attempts were rejected due to non-compliance with regulations.

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A Texas man has been charged with murder following a game in which he and his friend took turns shooting each other in the head with rifles while wearing Kevlar helmets.

On 17 August, good friends Sean O’Donnell (37) and Aaron Prout (34) were hanging out in the former’s home when they decided to play a very stupid and dangerous game – taking turns shooting each other in the head with a rifle while wearing a Kevlar helmet for protection. Kevlar helmets are used by modern soldiers because they are known to whithstand heavy impacts, but they are not completely bulletproof. In this particular case, the two friends, who had been drinking, were reportedly holding the Kevlar helmet above their heads while the other tried to aim at it with a rifle. All it took was for one of them to miss their shot by a few millimeters to turn their friendly game into a tragedy.

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An 80-year-old Japanese woman ended up sending around 1 million yen ($6,700) to an online scammer who posed as an astronaut stuck in space and in need of money to buy oxygen.

Hailing from  Japan’s northern Hokkaido island, the hapless octogenarian reportedly met the scammer on social media back in July. They claimed to be a male astronaut on a mission in outer space, and the woman apparently believed them. After earning the trust of their victim, the scammer told her they were “in space on a spaceship right now” but were “under attack and in need of oxygen.” Obviously, the only way the 80-year-old woman could was to send money to a bank account, so the astronaut could buy more oxygen and survive the ordeal.

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Brazilian football legend Neymar Jr. stands to inherit over $1.1 million after being named the only heir of a single, childless billionaire he has never even met.

You know the story – an anonymous billionaire leaves his fortune to a poor soul and changes their life forever. Most of us have dreamed of something similar happening at one point in our lives, but Brazilian footballer Neymar Jr. is actually living the dream, as he reportedly stands to inherit $1.14 billion from an anonymous man who passed away recently. Brazilian news outlet RIC reported that the will was formalised at an office in Porto Alegre and authenticated on June 12 with two witnesses present. The anonymous billionaire was reportedly single and childless, and selected Neymar jr as his sole heir because he identified with him at a personal level, even though they had never met.

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A Chinese man risks losing all his teeth after trying to make his own dentures with a special resin bought online, to save money on expensive dental procedures.

Ms. Liu, who runs a dental clinic in Tianjin, recently posted shocking photos of an elderly client who came in with both his upper and lower teeth caked in a hard, brown substance. He had allegedly been experiencing trouble eating because of his deteriorating teeth, so he decided it was time to get artificial dentures. However, he didn’t want to spend too much on them, and knowing that dental work was expensive, he decided to make his own dentures using materials he bought online. Unfortunately, he made a mess of his teeth and was left with no other option than to seek professional help. To his despair, so far, no one has been willing to remove the DIY dentures.

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