A man tried to board his pony on a train in the UK.

The unnamed man baffled staff at Wrexham station in Anglesey when he put the animal in a lift to get to his desired platform before pulling it on to a train set for Holyhead.

An American toddler was sold on eBay for $1,000.

Autumn Braden, 19, was babysitting her two-year-old relative and decided to put up an advert on the auction website to hawk the tot.

Four people were hospitalised in Italy after an argument broke out about ham.

A 50-year-old shopper sparked the row in a Tuscany store when she claimed a shop assistant was cutting her slices of meat too thick.

A Chinese patient is claiming medical staff tattooed his backside during surgery.

Sheng Xianhui, 34, has been left fuming after he woke from an operation to have gall stones removed to find his bottom had been inscribed with symbols meaning ‘Stone Disease’.

An Israeli couple have named their newborn daughter ‘Like’ after the Facebook application.

Lior and Vardit Adler decided to name their child after the button – symbolised by a thumbs-up image and clicked by users of the social networking website when they like friends’ pictures, statuses or comments – so she has a truly unique name.

Chinese farmers are baffled because their watermelons have started exploding.

Although they have admitted to using chemicals to speed up the growth of their fruit, they have found that even those that are left to grow organically have been exploding too.

A puppy fell from the sky after being dropped by an eagle in Canada.

May the toy poodle has been recovering with SPCA staff after she landed in the grounds of Sechelt’s Shorncliffe Nursing Home in Vancouver.

A British teenager can memorise the most complex piano pieces in a matter of hours.

Although 19-year-old Samuel Osmond doesn’t know how to read music and has never been taught to play the instrument, he has astounded tutors by playing Chopin and Beethoven perfectly, simply by remembering the notes.

A Mexican hotel resort has launched the world’s most expensive ice lolly.

The tequila-flavoured popsicle costs $1,000 because it is made from top quality Clase Azul Ultra liquor, which is bottled with 24 carat gold flakes.

A British man took 26 days to complete the London Marathon – dressed as a snail.

Although slow-coach Lloyd Scott has tackled the epic race before, doing his first marathon in 1990, he still has room for improving his speed, completing just over a mile a day in a giant costume depicting Brian the Snail from children’s television programme ‘The Magic Roundabout.’