Humour Happenings & Curious News Around The World

Real life is sometimes more fascinating than fiction. That's definitely the case with this camera that was lost for two years under the sea and was found in perfect working condition three days ago. Thanks to a few enterprising students (and the Internet) the camera will soon be returned to its owner - who lives in a completely different country.Incredibly enough, it was still charged and working.

Gurpreet Singh is one lucky man, and he knows it. The 24-year-old, who lost his wallet while travelling on the Delhi Metro, was one of the few lucky ones to get it back - all thanks to a Good Samaritan. "Be careful next time brother," said the accompanying letter, signing off with a smiley.

The monkey, a black-capped capuchin that lives at the Tianjin Zoo, has become an Internet sensation for its strangely amusing dazed and confused look.

In France, everyone is required to take a day off per week. Even if you run your own business. That lesson was learned the hard way by Cedric Vaivre, who owns a bakery in the tourist region of Lake Bakey in Lusigny-sur-Barse, which is about 120 miles south-east of Paris.

A man in Liaoning, China, accidentally threw away 124,000 yuan or approximately Rs. 12 lakh into trash. Luckily for him, the money was returned to him after it was found by his neighbour who turned to the police for help. According to South China Morning Post, the man - surnamed Wang - left his home earlier this month while carrying two plastic bags. While one bag contained banknotes that he wanted to deposit in his bank, the other contained household trash.

In addition to its joyful locals, Finland is also home to the happiest immigrants, the study found.

Not everything that looks like a bird was a bird, especially in the Jurassic period.

A young restaurant worker in Texas who spent the past year saving up for college is now one step closer to her dream - all thanks to a small act of kindness she performed. Evoni Williams, 18, went viral earlier this month for helping an elderly customer at the Waffle House Texas eat his food. A picture of Evoni, an employee of the Waffle House, cutting up food for a customer who was unable to do so himself, was clicked by another customer and shared on Facebook. The picture went viral with thousands of shares and even earned Evoni a scholarship to the Texas Southern University.

On Wednesday night, emergency services rushed to a home in Queensland, Australia after reports of an explosion. The fire started when a man tried to burn the cockroaches in the kitchen using an insect spray as a flame thrower, North West Star quotes local police.

A group of tourists from China are under attack by netizens for scaling an ancient sculpture to take photos. The four men were caught on camera climbing up a massive Buddha carving at Xiangyan Temple in China's Henan province on Friday."Their action was not only unethical, but also dangerous," said an eyewitness.

The 5-feet-long mystery fish has not been identified.John and Riley Lindholm came across the animal while walking down Moore Park Beach on Tuesday afternoon, reports ABC News. Though he has spent his entire life working around fish, Mr Lindholm says he has no idea what that fish is.

A letter penned by legendary physicist Albert Einstein discussing one of his groundbreaking theories sold in Jerusalem Tuesday for over $100,000 as part of trove of documents that went under the hammer. The handwritten missive, sent in 1928 by Einstein from Berlin to a mathematician about the formalisation of the "Third Stage of the Theory of Relativity", was snapped up by an anonymous buyer for $103,700 (83,600 euros).

A video taken on Sunday shows the beast picking up a cigarette butt that was flicked into its zoo enclosure by a visitor and then puffing away on it like a pro.

The dark green glass bottle, which measured less than nine inches long and three inches wide, was found in January north of Perth by a woman named Tonya Illman.

Two recent instances of animals being made scapegoats in an attempt to cover up alleged corruption in Nigeria have left social media highly amused. A sales clerk was suspended from her job in February after she claimed that a snake had swallowed 36 million naira, or approximately $100,000. Just weeks later, a senator was ridiculed for suggesting monkeys stole 70 million naira, or about $194,600, from a farmhouse. In the first instance, a clerk in the office of the Nigerian examination board which collects exam fees blamed a snake for swallowing $100,000. Quite a mouthful for a snake, isn't it? According to the BBC, the exam board, known as the Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board, dismissed the woman's claim and suspended her after a disciplinary hearing.

Fed up of rising water bills, an American woman opted for a unique way to send a message to the authorities.It took water department officials nearly three hours to count the pennies.