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Here’s this week’s collection of the world’s craziest and funniest stories from around the world.
1) The 77-year-old weightlifting champ
Meet Willie Murphy, a 77-year-old power lifter, who is redefining what it means to be fit.
The 105-pound grandmother, who works out three time per week, can deadlift more than 95kg – and can do one-handed and fingertip press-ups.
“They see I’m old and I’m not being pushed around in a wheelchair,” she said. “I can shovel my own snow. And I can push my car if it gets stuck in the snow... I'm almost 80 years old and I am still living life.” Murphy recently won Lifter of the Year at the coveted World Natural Powerlifting Federation 2014 World Championships. What a woman!
2) Meet the yoga expert -- who works out on his bike
MOST people do yoga at a leisure centre, in a gym or at home - but one man has taken to the roads to perform the ancient art while riding a speeding motorbike.
Gugulotu Lachiram, from Khammam, India has combined his two great passions in life - biking and yoga - to create a death defying form of exercise.
The 40-year-old, who has been carrying out his stunts since 2008, said: "I take the risk while I perform and until today I have not had any accidents.” And he hopes to continue till he’s 65.
3) North Korea forbids babies to be named after Kim Jong-un
In North Korea, there can no more be another Kim Jong-un -- literally.
The dictator of the hermit kingdom has issued a decree that no one in the whole country is allowed to have his name, 'Kim Jong-un', reports said on Wednesday.
The order was issued in a bid to protect the supreme authority of the leader, a Pyongyang's official mouthpiece confirmed on Wednesday
4) Jihadelicious: ISIS issues pancake recipe
It seems even Sunni extremist jihadi rebel groups get hungry. An agency operated by terror group ISIS and targetted at women has released a recipe online to cater for the ‘hungry mujahideen’ fighting in Syria and Iraq. For pancakes. Al-Zawra have gone with the universally-adored pancake as the second recipe in their jihadi cookbook, providing exact measures to eliminate the need for guesswork in the quest for the perfect dish.
They even recommend that militants eat their pancakes with honey – not maple syrup, or lemon and sugar.
5) Flight attendant fired for being ‘too sexy’
An air hostess who flaunted her busty figure for a series photoshoots and a music video has been fired from her job after bosses discovered the raunchy snaps. Zuhal Sengul, 31, angered her Turkish Airlines bosses when they saw her showing off her curves in low-cut tops and corsets for a series of Gothic-style photoshoots featured in an Italian magazine. And it seems the discovery of a music video in which the tattoo-sporting Ms Sengul struts her stuff in a bikini was the last straw, with the airline firing the 31-year-old as they move towards a more conservative image.
6) Man sets world record by playing video game on Mount Everest
An American man has taken gaming to new heights and set a new world record after playing a video game on Mount Everest. William Cruz, 23, from Utah, was winner of the fan contest for the release of their latest first-person shooter adventure series set in a region of the Himalayas, which gave him the opportunity to climb up the Everest and play the game with a spectacular view in front of him.
It required 15 men and five yaks to get all the required gaming equipment at 18,000 feet.
7) Teen breaks speed-texting record, types 25-word message in 17 seconds
A 17-year-old Brazilian boy has broken his own Guinness World record for the fastest texting on a smartphone touch screen, typing a 25-word message in just 17 seconds.
Marcel Fernandes Filho had broken the world record for the fastest time to type a text message on a touch screen mobile phone in May after typing the standard Guinness World Records texting passage on a Samsung Galaxy S4 in 18.19 seconds.
8) World record for the most Guinness Book of Records
A man has earned a place in his favourite records book for owning the world's biggest collection of Guinness World Records annuals.
Martyn Tovey, aged 57, has spent more than 40 years building up a collection of 353 individual annuals from around the world - plus 2,164 items of memorabilia.
It all started after Martyn won the Guinness World Records as a school prize and his mum has given him the latest annual for Christmas every year since 1971.
The computer security consultant has spent years tracking down copies of the earlier editions for his collection.