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An Iranian court has ordered a "stingy" husband to buy his wife 124,000 red roses.

The woman decided to take the man to court and claim her mahr after 10 years of marriage because he was so tight.

Under Iranian law a mahr is offered at time of marriage, can be claimed by the woman at any time during married life or even divorce proceedings.

They include sewage pipes, tree houses and dock cranes - welcome to 10 of the world's weirdest hotels.

While some people are just happy to get away from it all when they go on holiday, others insist on something a bit different, and it doesn't get much more different than these.

Weighing in at a jumbo 134lb and served on a 50lb bun, this could be the worlds biggest hamburger.

On sale for £175 the burger named "The Absolutely Ridiculous Burger" is being served at Mallie's Sports Bar and Grill in Detroit, Michigan though bosses say they need 24 hours notice to prepare it.

Owner Steve Mallie is still waiting to discover whether he has clinched a Guinness World Record, for the largest hamburger commercially available.

With large plastic bubbles surrounding their heads these people might look like extras from a bad 1970s science fiction movie, but they are actually wearing a new hands-free umbrella.

Makers of the Nubrella claim it will allow you to sip your coffee or chat on the phone while walking down the street on a busy day

The £30 device was designed by former tennis pro Alan Kaufman who has spent six years working on the product.

With it's 4.6 litre V8 engine and 700bhp the Splinter sportscar sounds like it could compete with many supercars, and it would ... or should that be wood.

Despite being made from maple, plywood and MDF the two-seater Splinter has a top speed of 240mph and weighs just 1,134kg.

Joe Harmon, 27, from North Carolina, who is head of the project, says: "Wood is a truly amazing material to work with, this car is designed to push boundaries and prove the potential of wood as a material."

A inventor wants to launch a simple but highly engineered pop bottle rocket into orbit.

Boffin Ken Schellenberg from Canada says it might be possible to get a two-litre pop bottle up the required hight.

He has already propelled a Kevlar-reinforced, single-stage missile pressurized with compressed nitrogen 379 metres skyward.

An artist who uses his willy to paint with, is going 'head-to-head' with some of Australia's top painters in a prestigious contest.

Tim Patch - or 'Pricasso' as he likes to be known - has entered the Archibald Prize, the nation's top award for portraiture, with a self-portrait.

He created the work by dipping his penis in paint and applying it to the canvas, though he used his bum to paint the background.

A McDonald's restaurant in California has undergone a Feng Shui make-over in a bid to make customers better enjoy their Big Macs.

Feng Shui Grand Master, Dr. Chi-Jean Liu was called in to redesign the Hacienda Heights McDonalds in East Los Angeles in terms of fire, earth,
wood, water and metal.

Though his new design and layout the the store now claims to control how energy is manifested making it a better place to eat your burgers.

A diamond encrusted toy car has become the worlds most expensive, valued at $140,000.

The 1:64 size car designed by celebrity jeweler Jason of Beverly Hills  contains 2,700 jewels and weighs nearly 23 carats. The car is cast in 18-karat white gold with the majority of the vehicle detailed with micro pave-set brilliant blue diamonds.

“Collaborating with Mattel on the jeweled Hot Wheels car was a dream project for me,” said Jason Arasheben, president & CEO of Jason of Beverly Hills.

30 years after James Bond drove his white Lotus Esprit into the water and it became a sub, a car company wants to make it a reality.

Swiss company Rinspeed has developed sQuba a concept open-top sports car which can can go over land and travel or below the waves to a depth of 10 metres.

But drivers would need to breathe using a tank of compressed air similar to scuba divers - unlike Roger Moore in The Spy Who Loved Me.

A wealthy diner who ordered a £18,000 bottle of wine sent it back after if was opened - because he thought it was fake.

The man had ordered the 1961 bottle of posh wine Petrus at swish restaurant Zafferano in London, but when it came he noticed the cork was not stamped a date as is the norm for products of the Bordeaux chateau.

After he returned the wine - which he said also tasted off - he shelled out an additional £2,000 on a 1945 Mouton Rothschild costing a cool £20,000.

Police are investigating a spate of bizarre car crime, where vehicles have been stolen - but then returned - before the owners noticed they were missing.

More than eight cars have been taken from Jedburgh in Scotland, but all have been returned, and the crimes only came to light because keys had been put back in the wrong place or the car had been parked differently.  

Police suspect that the figure could be much higher. Detective Constable John Brownlee said: "We are convinced that the cars are being driven over a reasonable distance during the night and we are concerned by the frequency of these thefts.

A blind wildlife photographer who 'sees' with her ears and takes pictures when she identifies the noises is to have her work exhibited.

Alison Bartlett, 51 has learnt to use her keen sense of hearing to pick up the sound of a bird flapping its wings or identify an animal rustling in a tree.

She has had an interest in photography since she was 12 and continued to take pictures despite starting to loose her sight in 1997.

Bridesmaids could soon be forced to sign contracts agreeing not to put on weight or get pregnant before their friends' big day.

20 percent of brides-to-be are so concerned that their special day goes as planned they would consider asking their bridesmaids to sign 'pre-nuptial' style contracts - a poll has revealed.

According to the survey of 1,000 women, commissioned by You & Your Wedding magazine brides would also like to use a contract to stop their maid-of-honour from changing her hairstyle, drinking too much, or making advances towards "inappropriate male guests."

British spooks have admitted they are having problems keeping up to date with internet technologies like Facebook and Skype.

An Intelligence and Security report has revealed that GCHQ - the UKs electronic spying and code-breaking agency - are struggling to use the new sites and systems to gather information.

For decades they have been able to tap phone lines, but now they warn this is not so easy with more people, including terrorists, using websites and the internet to keep in contact.

“My husband has the TV remote and won’t let me watch EastEnders.” and “Can the police come round and take my mother-in-law away? She has been here for 18 days.” are just some of the daft calls made to UK emergency services.

Others include “Can you arrest my boyfriend? He has put my hamster out in the rain.” and “A friend has my library card, can you come and arrest her?”

The 999 examples have been released by South Wales Police who will changing their 999 greeting from “South Wales Police, how can I help?”, to “South Wales Police, what is your emergency?”

While the brightly-coloured swings and see-saws might look brand new, the people playing on them don't - welcome to the UKs first playground for the over 60s.

The young at heart pensioners of Manchester, UK, have with the help of a local housing firm, built this £15,000 play-ground to keep themselves fit.

Six pieces of specially designed equipment provide gentle exercise for different parts of the body such as hips, legs and torso.

At first glance this looks like a photograph of a night out, but the image has actually been drawn with BIC ballpoint pens.

The stunning pictures, which can measure three metres high, are painstakingly drawn by Spanish artist Juan Franciso Casas based on photographs he has taken.

31-year-old Casas says he can use four of the humble 14p blue BIC biros to create each of his two metre tall drawings - but always uses blue.

An asteroid up-to 2,000 feet across has passed close to the Earth - as you may have noticed, it didn't hit.

The object '2007 TU24' whizzed past just 1.4 times the distance from the Earth to the moon.

A collision of a similar sized object happens on average once every 37,000 years and would have a major impact on the human population.

TU24 was spotted in October by the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona.

Virgin Galactic have released the final design of their ship which will take high-paying passengers into space.

Starting in 2010 the ship will take eight people (two pilot astronauts and six ticketed passengers) on two-and-a-half hour sub-orbital trips.

Despite each seat costing £100,000 Virgin Galactic say 200 people have already booked with another 85,000 having registered interest.

A protester brought Rome to a standstill in a bizarre fashion, by releasing 500,000 multi-coloured plastic balls down the Spanish Steps.

Tanorexia (obsessed with tanned skin) and Chindia (Chine and India) are just two of the words Australians are currently voting for as their favorite words of 2007.

The online vote organized by the Macquarie Dictionary contains 85 new words which reflect global developments and trends.

Other words include 'salad dodger' an overweight person, 'Manscaping' male grooming and 'Man-flu' a mild cold whose symptoms are exaggerated by the sufferer.

(Odd News) A stuffed fox, a voodoo doll and fermenting wine are some of the weird items found in the drawers of UK office workers.