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A Disco dancer who was performing for the Queen at an event in Windsor had to be stretchered off mid performance, after his high kick tore his hamstring and he couldn’t carry on. On a cheery note the Queen did send him a get well card.

A woman in America had to be rescued by paramedics after being stuck to a supermarket toilet seat for nearly an hour. It was later determined that the seat in Walmart had been covered in super glue. The police department said that applying super glue on a toilet is considered a crime and that the person responsible could face assault charges.

The man who was kicked in the shins at the tennis the other week has been picked up by elastoplasts the plaster company for a new advertising campaign, The line judge says it was an unexpected call but a bit of fun at the same time

A Swedish woman was partially reimbursed by Kenya Airways after she was forced to sit through a ten-hour flight to Tanzania next to a dead passenger.

Lena Pettersson, a journalist with Radio Sweden, boarded a flight in Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport and immediately noticed that a man in his 30s who was seated directly across the aisle from her was seriously ill.

‘He was sweating and having seizures,’ she told Sveriges Radio. ‘Air hostesses were there all along, but the plane took off anyway  

The heats have begun to find the people who will take Britain’s hopes with them to the World Air Guitar Championships. They take place in Finland on August 24^th  

Tokyo is the world's most expensive city for expatriates - while Karachi, the port city and financial centre of Pakistan, is the cheapest, according to Mercer's latest Cost of Living Survey. Karachi is less than a third as expensive as the Japanese capital.

Somewhat surprisingly, the Angolan capital Luanda is the second-most expensive city in the world for expats to live in. But where are the cheapest places?

Most UK cities have become cheaper for expats despite high inflation over the past year, mainly because the dollar has strengthened against the pound.

In the UK, London (25) is still the most expensive city for expatriates, but has slipped seven places from last year. At 133, Birmingham has climbed 17 places, having overtaken Aberdeen (144) and Glasgow (161), which have both fallen several places. Belfast (165) is the UK's least expensive city, but up 13 places in the ranking since 2011.

June  has been the wettest June  in the last 100 years.

More rain fell overnight across most of the country, adding to the deluges which have swamped northern counties and Scotland and forced families to flee their homes.

Computer games have replaced dolls as the top toy for girls for the first time in half a century.

A study of children's wishlists also reveals boys have turned their backs on construction toys in favour of modern gadgets and consoles, such as iPods, Playstations and the Xbox.

This has been at the expense of Lego, Meccanno, Barbie and Cabbage Patch Dolls - the mainstay of British childhood from the 1950s to late 1990s.

In fact, electronic toys have jumped from fifth most popular play thing in the 1980s to the toy of choice for the 21st century kid, the study found.

However, construction toys still cling to second spot, with 18 per cent of children naming them as their favourite.

And dolls take third place, with 16 per cent, the study of 2,000 people found.

DIOVORCE – there’ll soon be an app for that. The government are getting right behind this with £14m, and it’s set to provide advice on how to handle the break up and not quabble in front of kids.