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Not even gunfire can stop Barney. A kindergarten teacher in Monterrey, Mexico named Martha Rivera Alanis has become a hero after she sang the purple dinosaur's 'If All the Raindrops' while a gang shootout took place outside.

Finding your true love has always been a difficult feat, but female singles in Australia's busy metropolitan areas are facing an extreme case of the lonelies. The reason: a lack of eligible men.

When people tell Steven McCormack he's full of hot air, they're not kidding. The 48-year-old truck driver from New Zealand blew up like a balloon last Saturday after a compressed air hose punctured his rear end, resulting in a massive amount of air hurdling its way into his body.

It's a good thing Arnold Schwarzenegger's recent philandering came to light after he left office because it would have severely hindered his chances at getting re-elected governor of California. A new survey of 12,500 singles from around the world by the online dating site Zoosk has shed light on opinions about cheating.

If  you thought the school dress code was strict, check this out. A New Zealand casino is making all of its employees wear flea collars while on the job. No, it's not some bizarre fetish club, it's a legitimate casino, and apparently it's because of a real flea problem. The problem is so bad in the area in fact, that some nurses in hospitals in Auckland adopted the policy back in December. Read Mo

Doing something that sounds so ridiculous wouldn't even have crossed my mind. And this is coming from a guy who wants Sonic to make a "Pulled Pork BBQ Limeade" drink. But something like this, glasses for your chickens, is just too far.

If this video doesn't get you ready for the end of the world, nothing will.

WARNING : Shallow Commentary Ahead!!! I used to think Bill Clinton had bad taste in women. But Slick Willie has nothing on Arnold.

A blood test that should be available in Europe by the end of the year could give you a pretty good indication of how fast you are aging and how much longer you will live. The test measures telomeres, structures on the end of each of your chromosomes, which scientists think may hold the key to determining a person's "true age."

An Israeli couple recently named their newborn daughter "Like," as in, the button you press when you enjoy a post on the popular social media site Facebook. This is how the girl's father, Lior Adler, explained the name to the German press agency dpa: "If once people gave Biblical names and that was the icon, then today is one of the most famous icons in the world...

The Internet photo sensation called "planking," which can be best described as extreme lying down, led to a 20-year-old Australian man plunging to his death while partaking in the fad this weekend, police said. Queensland police said the man fell several stories from a Brisbane high-rise early Sunday morning while engaging in the activity, in which the planker lies flat on their stomach

Cell phones can do many things these days, but you'd be hard-pressed to find one that also satisfies your nicotine craving. Britain's Sun newspaper reports a drunk driver in Russia pulled over by police tried to make a call with a pack of cigarettes he thought was a cell phone. Cops pulled over the would-be Marlboro Man after noticing he was driving erratically. When they stopped his vehicle, the