A man cut off his own head with a chainsaw after stabbing his 70-year-old father to death in their apartment in the German city of Cologne, police said.

Climbing into a giraffe’s cage at the local zoo seemed a good idea after a few drinks. But the prank went wrong when the 1.3 ton animal flew into a rage and attacked the three student trespassers at a zoo in Lithuania on Monday night.

A 52-YEAR-OLD Greek mother has given birth to her two grandsons, after getting legal permission to be a surrogate mother for her daughter and son-in-law.
The woman, who was implanted with embryos from her daughter’s fertilised eggs by her son-in-law, gave birth to twin boys in good health and weighing 2.5 kilos, gynaecologist Dr Charalambos Batakis, [...]

A drunk German horse rider rode into a bank foyer to sleep for the night, after having one too many for the road during a stopover at his local beergarden.
Wolfgang Heinrich, 40, from the German town Wiesenburg, had been riding with his Haflinger horse Sammy when he stopped to have a drink with friends.

A married teacher carried on a passionate affair with one of her pupils while she was pregnant with her husband’s child, a court has heard.
Jenine Saville-King, 29, allegedly began the year-long relationship with the boy when he was 15.
She was “infatuated” with him, the court was told, and they met for sex in her home, [...]

A father criticised a police force today for launching an investigation after his ten-year-old son allegedly called a schoolfriend “gay” in an email.
Company director Alan Rawlinson said he was astounded after two police officers arrived at his home in Bold Heath, Cheshire, to speak to his son George.
The officers were called earlier this month after [...]