News From A Weird World
The world is full of weird news stories these days, those offbeat news stories that make you wonder what people were thinking, or what new "level of stupid" people can aspire to. Every Wednesday I publish a series of articles on Yahoo Contributor Network that highlight some of the really bizarre stories from the past week. The series is appropriately called News From A Weird World, and this lens contains a summary for each of the weekly editions. Prior to September 2010, the articles used ...

Offbeat News Where The Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction
Offbeat News Weird News Stories From Around The World
Offbeat News is a weekly article that is published on Associated Content every Wednesday. In today's world, as well as the tragic and sad news items that are featured on the mainstream news channels, often unheard of are a myriad of other events from around the world that are truly bizarre. The best of these Odd But True and Weird News items are pulled together every week into the Offbeat News articles, which are gaining more and more followers with each issue, and getting rave revues. The...

The Daily Joke - November
Daily Jokes In November Means Weird News Stories
The Daily Joke is a series of monthly lenses with something funny for every day in the month. For November I thought it would be a good time to send out some of the weird news items that seem to come from all corners of the globe these days. I don't think a single day goes by without there being some wacky story about someone doing something unusual, stupid, or some odd event happening. I hope you enjoy the collection that I have for you in November, and don't forget, there are plenty more ...

Best of offbeat news on Twitter
News headlines attack us every day with the dark gloom of life: airline disasters, wars, politics, shootings, etc. Sometimes there is just too much doom and disaster to put any kind of serene spin on the day. Offbeat news stories are one way that we draw ourselves out of the darkness. These news stories are largely non-spectacular nor are they shocking. Generally, these stories are odd and funny and provide an escape from the day to day blood bath we get from normal news services. Twitter u...