Funny things this year!!!!
a British bobsleigh rider bursting out of her skintight suit your most popular story of the month. Unfortunately for Gillian Cooke, 14,000 spectators turned out to watch a topless tobogganing tournament in Germany. A total of 30 male and female competitors braved the elements to race along a 100 metre track in Braunlage.
a baby girl born with a tail. Surgeons successfully operated to remove the five inch appendage.
a 101-year-old woman who had grown a horn on her head. We can't decide whether a baby with a tail trumps a woman with a horn.
police finally arrested an imaginative burglar after a series of raids in which he climbed into large parcels and posted himself to businesses. Stanislaw Muchy, 39, would then climb out at night after staff had clocked off and burgle the premises.
heartwarming story from Russia in May about a jilted fiance who, while planning to throw himself from a bridge, found love again - with a girl who was about to leap to her death from the same spot. The pair talked all night and agreed to help each other mend their broken hearts.
student launched a bizarre attack on a gang of Hell's Angels. The foolhardy 26-year-old created a major traffic jam in Bavaria when he "mooned" the bikers, hurled a puppy at them and then escaped on a bulldozer.
A man who saved a one-armed, one-legged monkey said the primate paid him back - by killing all of his chickens. Apparently the monkey was copying its owner but didn't know when to stop. The moral? "Never slaughter a chicken in front of a monkey," said the man.
park officials had found a way to stop people from hogging their benches for too long - by fitting steel spikes on a coin-operated timer. If visitors to Yantai Park in Shangdong province, eastern China, linger too long without feeding the meter, dozens of sharp spikes shoot through the seat.
a two-legged pig which had learnt to walk on its front trotters. Owner Wang Xihai trained it as a piglet and revealed how it was attracting crowds of visitors to his home each day.
US student Karen Owen was said to be distraught after a PowerPoint presentation detailing her sexual conquests went viral. She produced the unofficial "senior honours thesis" on her flings with 13 men as a joke to be shared with three close friends after she graduated in May.
surgeons had saved a little girl's severed hand - by grafting it on to her leg for three months. Nine-year-old Ming Li's hand was too badly damaged to reattach to her wrist after she was run over by a tractor so doctors temporarily attached it to her right calf before putting it back where it belongs.
England legend Gary Lineker finally came clean, so to speak, about how he once pooed himself during a match at the 1990 World Cup finals. He claimed he had never enjoyed so much space on the pitch before or since.
