“An enormous multi-storey marijuana farm, that used enough electricity to power an entire city block, has been discovered on a busy New York street. Cops entering a nondescript building in the Bronx were astonished to discover all five floors packed with nearly 800 pot plants many of which were over seven-foot tall. Three people were arrested and and officers seized plants weighing over 1,500 pounds plus another 75 pounds of the drug already packaged and ready for sale. The mind-bending crop was estimated to have a street value of around $5,000 to $8,000 a pound.” w/ photos

“7-year-old Giuliano Stroe, know as the world’s strongest kid, does push ups while balancing on glass bottles. He already holds a few Guinness World Records!”

“A skinny model with a very tight corset shows her thin wasp waist.”

“An astonishing photograph taken from outer-space illustrates how an iceberg the size of New York is close to breaking off from Antarctica. A 19-mile crack in Pine Island Glacier’s ice is clearly visible, leading some scientists to speculate that the world’s biggest berg could soon be on the move. The picture, taken by NASA’s Terra spacecraft in November 2011 but only released today, shows how the crack is quickly growing. Just a month before it was only 18 miles long.” w/ photos

“Students cling to a collapsed bridge as they cross a river to get to school in the Indonesian village of Sanghiang, Tanjung.” — telegraphtv

“Deffy and Sarinya had been together for 10 years, before they finally decided to settle down. They had postponed the wedding several times, due to busy schedules and the fact that Deffy wanted to complete his education before he got married. However, after Sarinya’s untimely death, he couldn’t let her go without fulfilling her deepest desire. So, he decided to marry her anyway. On the 4th of January, in Buddhist ceremony, Deffy married the corpse of his girlfriend. The event took place in Surin, a city in northern Thailand. During the ceremony, he expressed his devotion and deep love for Sarinya. Several friends and relatives attended the wedding, and it was even aired on national television in Thailand. The story, along with pictures from the wedding have now become an internet sensation, sparking several debates.” w/ photos + video

“More than 1,100 dogs destined for a slaughterhouse were rescued this week by an animal-loving blogger in Chongqing, China. The 1,137 dogs that had been cramped into cages stacked on top of each other onto the back of a flatbed truck were intercepted with the help of a blogger, who goes by the surname Peng, as they were on their way to be made into food.” w/ photos

“Karam Chand was born in a small rural village in the Punjab in northern India in 1905. His family worked in farming and, in keeping with the custom of the time, he married at a young age. His bride Kartari was born in the same district in 1912. According to their passports, that currently makes Mr Chand 106 and his wife 99 years old. They wed in a typical Sikh ceremony in December 1925 and have just celebrated their 86th year together as a married couple, which they think may qualify them as the UK’s longest married husband and wife.” w/ photos

“A stray cat that survived two trips to a Utah animal shelter’s gas chamber now has a new home. Officials at West Valley City’s animal shelter in Utah say the cat named Andrea hadn’t been adopted for 30 days when shelter officials tried to put her to death in October. She survived, so they gassed her again. Shelter officials detected no vital signs and presumed she was dead after the second try, so they put her in a plastic bag in a cooler. But when they checked the bag, they saw she had vomited on herself and had hypothermia but was alive. The shelter then decided to stop trying to kill her.” w/ photo

“It’s certainly been a case of Randy by name, randy by nature, for this young ram. The horny little fellow managed to father at least 33 lambs after jumping a 5ft fence to go on his own personal ram raid. Randy – an 11-month-old texel ram – was only loose for 24 hours. But in that short space of time, the woolly lothario managed to breed with almost a third of a nearby flock. So far, 13 of his offspring have been born at West Lodge Rural Centre in Desborough, Northamptonshire. Twenty more ewes – a mix of Southdowns, Suffolks and Soays crosses – are expecting babies any day. Ryan Thompson, manager of the farm, called the whole situation ‘comical’. He said: ‘We got a vet out to do a animal equivalent of an ultra-sound on a few that we thought were pregnant but he came back and told us that at least 30 were due.” w/ photos