Every day the world's newspapers confirm what we all know - that life can be very strange indeed. From a town in Louisiana where it is illegal to wear a starling hat to the gourmet magazine that accidentally published a recipe for poisonous cookies, you can always guarantee that your fellow human beings will surprise you.

This amazing book brings together some of the strangest tales from newspapers around the world. You can also read great quips and jokes, as well as the papers' most embarrassing and side-splitting mistakes, headlines and insanities.