Strange News

• What we know from mushroom poisoning trial: Death cap traces in dehydrator, faked cancer and accused in tears

  An Australian woman accused of murdering her estranged husband's parents and an aunt by serving them a beef wellington laced with poisonous mushrooms has given evidence in court.

• Cheese-loving daredevils hurl themselves down steep hill in famous race

  Dairy-loving daredevils from around the world have descended on Gloucestershire and thrown themselves down Cooper's Hill in the annual cheese-rolling race.

• Display of saint's remains draws huge crowds - but bishop says it 'encourages morbid curiosity'

  Tens of thousands of people have flocked to see the remains of a revered Spanish saint, more than 440 years after her death, prompting debate over whether such displays "encourage morbid curiosity".

• Man wakes up with ship in his garden

  A cargo ship has crashed into a man's front garden in Norway, missing his home, where he was sleeping, by just a few metres.

• Chess grandmaster playing match against 140,000 people reveals expected result

  A chess grandmaster who is playing a single game against 140,000 people thinks the match is heading for a draw.

• Magna Carta 'copy' miscatalogued in 1940s found to be original

  An issue of the Magna Carta, which was wrongly catalogued as a copy in the 1940s, has been identified as original.

• Flying duck caught on speed camera could be repeat offender

  A duck has been caught on a radar image breaking the speed limit in central Switzerland - and it could be a repeat offender.

• Student rescued from mountain twice in four days - after going back to find his phone

  A Chinese student who was airlifted from Japan's Mount Fuji last week had to be saved a second time just four days later, local authorities have said.

• Woman who faked being a man to get into Magic Circle finally allowed in

  How did one woman fool the most famous magic society on the planet?

• Letter sheds possible new light on Shakespeare's marriage

  New analysis of a letter fragment has possibly shed light on William Shakespeare's marriage - suggesting it may have been less fractious than previously suggested.