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A Chirstmas-minded chocolatier has hit upon an unusual festive hit… chocolate-coated Brussels sprouts. (The Sun)

Sea creatures including worm larva, plankton and a paddle worm helgolandica have been used by boffins at Plymouth University to create a bizarre Christmas card. (Daily Mail)

A TV weatherman stormed off the set after being asked to do an interview and give the forecast. (Daily Mail)

News reports in North Korea are claiming that nature is "mourning" the death of Kim Jong Il through  "strange natural phenomena" such as cracking ice, glowing mountains and glorious sunsets. (HuffPost)

Siku is an orphaned polar bear cub which has become an online hit after being ridiculously adorable in a YouTube video. (Mirror) (YouTube)

The Filipino air hostesses who perform safety demos to music for YouTube hi-jinx are at it again, this time to a festive Mariah Carey number. (Daily Mail)

A Dutch football game came to an abrupt end when a manager ordered his team off the pitch after a goalie was shown a red card for defending himself against a thug who ran on the pitch. (Daily Mail)

We're taking a festive break at Newslite Towers, so rather than our usual stream of posts, we're bringing back 'Weird News We Didn't Write' -- our round-up of the best odd news stories of the day. Here we go…

A man dressed as Santa has save a driver's life after coming across a burning car while wearing his full festive costume. (ABC News)

Hancock became HanC**k and Arsenal became A***nal on a TV guide when an overzealous worker censored non-offensive TV titles. (The Sun)

Police in France are on the hunt for a man who has made a series of raids on bakeries in Paris suburbs to steal croissants. (Telegraph)

We're fans of the news blooper, and KTLA 5 they seem happy enough to embrace the gaffe -- like when an audio error meant viewer heard a host ordering a coffee. (YouTube)

A pair of crooks in Wisconsin accidentally called 911 during their getaway… by butt-dialling the cops as they sat down. (ABC News)

It's probably not the sort of birth she was hoping for, but a US woman has had a baby in a truck, during a snow storm. (HuffPost)

Frankincense could become a thing of the past after ecologists warned that trees producing the festive incense could soon be wiped out. (Telegraph)

vatican.xxx has been snapped up by an unknown buyer, meaning that the Pope could soon be left red-faced by pornographic content which looks like it could come from The Vatican. (Reuters)

Ever wondered why something you bought online doesn't work? YouTube might have the answer if this video of a FedEx guy throwing a computer monitor is anything to go by. (YouTube)

We're taking a festive break at Newslite Towers, so rather than our usual stream of posts, we're bringing back 'Weird News We Didn't Write' -- our round-up of the best odd news stories of the day. Here we go…

Worried boy writes to builder about concerns his chimney isn't big enough to fit Father Christmas. A new one gets built adhering to results of Santa calculations. It's a Christmas PR miracle. (Telegraph)

A woman who swallowed a pen 25 years ago has just had an operation to have it removed… and it still works! Can anyone write 'Yuck' (Daily Mail)

YouTube have revealed a list of of most watched videos in the UK in 2011 --  all hail the talking and hungry dog. (BBC)

Apparently attempting to prove that all the useful inventions have already been invented, a Japanese boffin has created a nose-mounted LED which lights up when you breathe. (HuffPost)

A video of a cat stroking crying baby and sending him to sleep has become a web hit… and made us wonder whether our cat is a suitable babysitter. (Daily Mail)

Dutch TV presenters with cannibalistic tendencies have caused a stir by eating part of each others cooked flesh on TV. (Mirror)

If you are going to score an own goal, it may as well be a corker. That seems to have been the logic adopted by the Hong Kong footballer who scored this spectacular own goal. (Telegraph)

They say the bigger they are the harder they fall, and that certainly seem to be the case with Britain’s biggest dog who broke his toe while out on a walk. (Daily Mail)

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Rebels who took control of Colonel Gaddafi's compound say they have found an odd photo album the Libyan leader kept with pictures of Condoleezza Rice. (Daily Mail)
 
Free-running has always looked dangerous enough to us, and that's when you're just leaping around on stationary objects. Combine it with speeding trains and that just stupid. We can't believe this guy is still alive. (ABC News) (YouTube)
 
A strange phenomena which is being described as a 'bubble cloud' has been reported over the skies of Beijing. (CBS) (YouTube)

A dash cam on a police car in Oklahoma City has recorded the moment an alleged drunk driver drove onto the wrong side of the road and ploughed straight into the deputy's squad car head-on. (ABC Local) (YouTube)

A loyal dog who refused to leave the side of his fallen Navy SEAL master in an emotional funeral will now go to a good home. Hawkeye, a Labrador retriever -- who sat by the coffin of his master Petty Officer Jon Tumilson last week -- will be staying with Scott Nichols, who had previously looked after him. (Daily Mail)

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She was covering a story about staff getting paid extra for being able to speak multiple languages, so it's a same NBC 5 news journalist Susy Solis wasn't even able to get through her report in English. (YouTube)

In the past we've seen the lengths people will go to to snag themselves a foul ball - whether that means dropping your child, or fighting someone else's - but this baby was less bothered at a recent Giants game, he threw it back. (NBC Sports)

NASA has activated a humanoid robot which was recently launched into orbit. Robonaut will initially be operated inside a laboratory on the on International Space Station. (Asylum)

Something tells us Philippe Senderos is going to get a bit of stick for this. The Fulham defender was discussing the tackling skills of Joey Barton when he uttered the line: "He's going to come strong in the tackle and come in your face." (SportsGrid) (YouTube)

A Dutch football fan was not happy when the referee gave his team six yellow card and they lost a recent game - so he tried to run over the official with his mobility scooter. (NBC Sports) (YouTube)

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First of all we want to assure you the TV sports presenter in question is not Gary Lineker. A Costa Rican TV soccer reporter surprised a footballer she was interviewing by lowering her jeans and asking him to autograph her arse. (NBC) (YouTube)

A 12-year-old girl has left police in the US red-faced - by using the knowledge she gained during a forensics class to solve the burglary of her great-grandmother before they were able to. (WSBTV)

We've seen plenty of swear words sneak their way into the media, normally it's tongue-tied news presenters who make the error… but something tell us this one - shouted at a news reporter live on TV - was very much intended. (YouTube)

Everyone is familiar with how monster truck shows work, the big-wheels trucks drive over normal-sized vehicle as petrol-heads cheer. Or that's what's meant to happen, this monster truck got stuck trying to take on a fire engine. (Daily Mail) (YouTube)

A bungling crook who tried to steal a TV from the garden of a US bar left empty-handed after falling over as he climbed up to a shelf to swipe it and dropped it on himself. (All Voices) (YouTube)

It's meant to be the referee and officials who dole out the punishment during a football match, but this game in Uruguay saw a player slap a referee's assistant across the face. (The Sun) (YouTube)

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An ABC News presenter suffered a green screen fail when the colour of her short meant that she appeared as a floating head. (Examiner)

A US trucker who had his penis amputated during a circumcision when doctors found life-threatening cancer says it was done without his consent. (BBC)

A German golfer who was so determined to repay a debt of a drink - which he lost in a wager - he spent five years and thousands of pounds tracking down the man he owed the pint. (Telegraph)

At Newslite we have a strange relationship with baseball, while we couldn't really care less about the sport, it does throw up a surprising amount of off-beat occurrences and for that reason we are fascinated… what other sport give you things like this off-the-head catch? (CBS) (YouTube)

After watching this clip we guarantee you will want to deal with telemarketers like this guy who answered as though he was from 911. (Thedailywh.at)

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Players and fans at a Mexican first division football match were forced to run for cover when a gun battle started just outside the stadium in Torreon. (Telegraph) (YouTube)

With a lot of practice and some beige knitwear this little kid could become the American Paul Yarrow - just look at how he trolls the CNN coverage of Kim Kardashian's wedding. (YouTube)

It was meant to be an event to promote international relations but a recent match between a US and Chinese basketball team recently erupted in a brawl. (Mirror)  (YouTube)

Tightrope daredevil Freddy Nock has scaled a two inch thick cable to the top of the 10,000ft high Zugspitze mountain in Germany, with neither a balancing pole or a security harness. (Telegraph) (YouTube)

Police in China have recruited a team of monkey statues to help them stop drivers from speeding. The monkeys have been issued high-vis vests and situated at the side of the road. (Metro)

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We're not going to lie to you, there isn't too much to this other than a cute photo of a cat and baby deer snuggling up and having a snooze together. (Metro)

We thought the story about French actor Gerard Depardieu peeing on a plane was pretty amusing, but apparently not as much as CNN presenter Anderson Cooper, who couldn't stop laughing as he worked his way through a pun-filled report. (VVV) (YouTube)

A man is apparently causing a stir in Mexico after claiming he discovered a fairy, which he's now charging people to look at. 3,000 people are said to have visited wanting to see the creature… which looks suspiciously like a plastic model to us. (LAHT) (YouTube)

TV viewers claim to have seen a UFO flying behind MP Tom Watson as he was interviewed on Channel 4. But is this an alien invasion… or a bird. (Asylum)

It was an odd broadcast from Fox 5 News, not only were TV news presenters were left in the dark when there was a power failure during a live sow - but they were reporting on an odd story about a couple getting married on a bridge. (YouTube)

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Sir Bobby Charlton is a footballing legend, he won the World Cup and is a hero to Manchester United fans around the world… but did you know he's also a rather impressive public dancer. (The Sun) (YouTube)

News reporter Shepard Smith was left red-faced after making a rude blunder on live TV -- rather than say 'top cop' the Fox News anchor said "top cock". (Asylum)

A Chinese TV news reporter has become a bit of a online sensation after covering his microphone with a condom to keep it dry as he reported on a typhoon. (Metro) (YouTube)

When we were younger and imagining the sort of flying car we'd be driving/flying by the year 2011, we didn't think it would look anything like this… then again we didn't think we'd still be relying on DIY Russian vehicles. (Daily Mail)

A two-legged robot called MABEL which was created by boffins at the University of Michigan has become the world's fastest… after reaching 6.8mph. (Daily Mail)