Deep fried beer bites, which were revealed last week, have won an annual food award at the State Fair of Texas.

The ravioli-like pockets of pretzel dough containing beer were devised by chef Mark Zable who spent three years perfecting them.

Now the recipe - which is strictly for those aged over 21 - has been named "Most creative" at the Big Tex Choice Awards for fried foods.

However, the overall "Best taste" award went to a 'Fried Frito Pie' which consists of chili and cheddar cheese encased in chips and then battered and fried. It's probably best served with fried beer.

British women are increasingly likely to pick up the power-tools and do DIY around the house themselves, a survey has found.

78 percent of women claim they actually enjoy performing odd jobs such as putting up shelves or hanging a door.

But it's a bid to save money which prompts most women to reach for the screwdriver, with 69% saying the reason they do DIY is to cut contractor costs.

48% of females surveyed say their creativity and style is useful when fixing up the home and puts them in a better position than a man.

And it looks like blokes agree, 72% of people claim women make great DIYers because they're more patient… and it give us a chance to pop to the pub.

The number of business meetings conducted over a breakfast is on the rise as workers find them more productive than lunches, it's been found.

A study of 3,000 workers discovered breakfast meetings are becoming more common as workers try to fit more into their schedules.

And while 42 percent of us now regularly attend biz breakies, they are also said to be more productive than a traditional working lunch.

64% think breakfast or morning meetings have more positive outcomes than those later in the day and 67% of people believe they're more likely to pay attention.

Or at least we think that's what they said… we were told about it over lunch and weren't really listening.

A Colombian man who measures just 2ft 3inch tall has been named the new world's shortest man by Guinness World Records.

Edward Niño Hernandez - known as as Niño (meaning child) - has inherited the title from China's He Pingping, who passed away in March.

Hernandez currently lives in Bogota with his parents and four brothers and says his hobbies include playing soccer and dancing.

Despite being found during a search for the world's shortest man after Pingping's death, Niño is actually 4cm shorter than his predecessor at 70.21 cm.

But Hernandez’s reign as the shortest man could be the shortest in history... the current shortest teenager, Nepal's Khagendra Thapa Magar, will turn 18 on October 14th, and is 2 inches smaller.

They say football's a game of two halves. Unfortunately for these tired looking players those halves were a little longer than usual.

In fact, the players were competing in what was to become the longest football match ever played -- lasting a total of 57 hours.

The game between the Leeds Badgers and the Warwick Wolves had been arranged to set the world record and raise money for charity The Meningitis Trust.

While players started with vigour, by the end on Sunday evening - after only being allowed to rest for five minutes per hour - most looked shattered.

Goalkeepers looked particularly tired... though with a final score of 425 - 354 to the Badgers, they'd spent quite a while time picking the ball out from the back of the net.

Queen frontman Freddie Mercury has been named as the Greatest Rock Legend Of All Time.

Flamboyant Mercury, who sold 300 million records before he died of HIV induced bronchopneumonia in November 1991, beat Elvis Presley to claim the title.

The tragic star, who was born Farrokh Bulsara in Zanzibar in 1946, formed Queen in 1970 with guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor. They were later joined by bass player John Deacon.

British born rocker David Bowie came third in the survey carried out among 3,000 rock fans, followed by Jon Bon Jovi, Jimi Hendrix and Ozzy Osbourne.

Other rock gods in the top 20 list include Kurt Cobain, Jim Morrison and Robert Plant… we can imagine many rockers will be smashing their guitars over their absence from the list.

69 Mexican cowboys have set a new world record for simultaneous lassoing, by all swinging their ropes for three minutes.

The charros (Mexican cowboys) made the record bid during the 17th annual International Mariachi and Charreria festival in Guadalajara.

Each with a marked-out area of the stadium they twirled and swung their lassos as best they could while  an adjudicator from Guinness World Records watched on.

At the end he verified they had beaten the previous record of of a meagre  23 simultaneous lassos.

Organisers hope the record will encourage more people to take up the rope-swinging activity… though you may want to check you have room first.

So Andy Murray is out of the US Open, at least British tennis fans still have one thing to celebrate… having the world's oldest working tennis court.

Bosses at the Edgbaston Archery and Lawn Tennis Society in Birmingham say their lawn playing surface of six courts is now 137 years old.

It was initially laid out in 1873 - 13 years after the club was founded - and officials at the society claim the courts are still in the same positions, to within a few inches.

This means the lawn courts have been in longer continuous use than other courts anywhere in the world.

Admittedly British tennis fans would rather celebrate seeing a Brit win Wimbledon (or anything for that matter) … but they've got to take what they can.

Hundreds of Russians have competed in a bizarre race where they had to ride inflatable sex dolls down the Vuoksa River.

Now in its eighth year, the Bubble Baba Challenge sees brave men and women jump into the icy water and swim the length of the course.

All contestants are over 16 and are tested for alcohol before the event which takes around three minutes… with the assistance of an inflatable friend.

Organisers say the race was originally conceived as a drunken idea at a party where very few women arrived but the men still hit the vodka… we never would have guessed.

For the second year running Dan Brown, who wrote The Da Vinci Code, has been named as the author most donated to charity shops.

An annual survey of almost 700 Oxfam stores found that there were more unwanted copies of his books than any other author.

The charity stores are said to have countless copies of his books which include, The Da Vinci Code, Angels and Demons and The Lost Symbol.

Ian Rankin’s books were the second most donated, followed by Patricia Cornwell and Alexander McCall Smith .

Other writers with the dubious honour of making the top ten unwanted authors include, JK Rowling, John Grisham and Jeremy Clarkson -- who we didn't even know could read.