The $1.6m car that has diamonds, rubies…and seats made of whale penis!

October 3rd, 2009 LONDON - Brit chef Jamie Oliver, nicknamed The Naked Chef, is said to have eaten sheep's penis and intestine during a visit to an American Indian tribe. Oliver, 34, who is travelling the length and breadth of the US in search of interesting recipes, was in Arizona filming his new programme Jamie's American Road Trip, when he tried the traditional delicacies.

October 3rd, 2009 KUALA LUMPUR - A Taiwanese woman, who reportedly asked for divorce from her husband because his penis was too long, has been refused after a request to measure the man's manhood was denied. According to the Sin Chew Daily, which quoted a newspaper report from Taiwan, the woman, in her second attempt to divorce her husband, said that she had to bear with the pain whenever she had sex with him.

September 29th, 2009 JOHANNESBURG - South Africa's Cullinan mine, the source of the world's biggest diamond, has produced yet another unusually large, high-quality diamond, the mining company that made the find announced Tuesday. Petra Diamonds said the 507-carat gem was found alongside three more rough diamonds found at the mine Sep 24.

August 28th, 2009 ADELAIDE - A jealous Indian Australian wife has been charged with killing her husband by setting his penis on fire. She is expected to answer her murder charge in October.

August 2nd, 2009 CHKALOV ISLAND - Keeping up his action man image, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has recently and set up a satellite transmitter on a white whale diving into sea in Russia's Far East region and told the animal not to be so angry. During his visit to Chkalov Island in Russia's Far East Khabarovsk region Friday, Putin met the scientists studying white whales' behaviour, migration patterns and habitats.

July 30th, 2009 LONDON - A beluga whale in a Chinese aquarium is said to have saved the life of a diver by carrying her leg in its mouth and pushing her to the surface. Yang Yun, who had been taking part in a free diving contest without any breathing equipment, was terrified and thought she would die when her legs were paralyzed by crippling cramps in the arctic temperatures.

July 18th, 2009 JOHANNESBURG - Diamond Trading Co (DTC) Botswana, the sales arm of global diamond major De Beers, has appointed an Indian diamond producer as its sightholder to ensure the sustainability of its diamond manufacturing capacity in the African country. Shrenuj Botswana, which is part of the Mumbai-headquartered Shrenuj India group, will now be authorised to buy rough diamonds.

July 10th, 2009 KUALA LUMPUR - Critics are demanding that Miss Singapore Rachel Kum be stripped of her title, after offensive pictures of her have surfaced on the Internet. In one of the pictures, Kum is seen simulating oral sex with a birthday cake shaped like an erect penis.

July 6th, 2009 LONDON - A Brit carpenter, who tried doing a DIY job while drunk, is said to have cut off his own penis in the process. Stuart Keen, 54, suffered horrific injuries after he cut himself with the saw he was using to cut wood for a cabinet he was making in his home workshop.

June 8th, 2009 Initial European Parliament vote resultsIncomplete European election results project this range of seats for political groups in the next EU assembly: — Conservatives/European Democrats: 267 to 271 seats — Socialists: 157 to 161 seats — Liberals/Democrats for Europe: 80-82 seats — Europe of the Nations: 35 seats — Far-left/Nordic Greens: 35 seats — Greens/European Free Alliance: 54 seats — Independent/Democracy Group: 17 seats — Others: 86-88 seats

May 28th, 2009 WELLINGTON - A rare blue whale, measured at 27 metres long and estimated to weigh about 150 tonnes, has washed up dead on a New Zealand beach, news reports said Thursday. The animal, found by abalone divers in a remote spot near the northern tip of the South Island, had several shark bites, but whale expert Anton van Helden of the Te Papa national museum told the Dominion Post newspaper it was likely to have been attacked after dying at sea.

May 5th, 2009 NEW YORK - Former American couple John Wayne Bobbitt and Lorena Leonor recently came face to face with each another, 16-years after the latter cut off his manhood. Lorena, 39, revealed that it seemed that her ex was still in love with her.

May 1st, 2009 SYDNEY - The world's largest and rarest fish, the whale shark, may be increasing in number in one of its vital habitats, a new study by scientists and the general public has revealed. The remarkable success of the online survey of whale sharks was carried out by Earthwatch volunteers, tourists, divers and researchers at Ningaloo, Western Australia.

April 28th, 2009 MELBOURNE - A Brazilian man has had his penis severed by his girlfriend who accuses him of raping her daughter. As per police officer Fabio Gaudencio, Isaias Saturnino, 42, was sleeping at his home in northeastern Brazil when his girlfriend Maria da Silva used a kitchen knife to cut off his penis.

March 4th, 2009 SYDNEY - The last survivor of a pod of 192 pilot whales that came ashore on Tasmania's King Island at the weekend swam back out to sea Wednesday. A recalcitrant creature had beached twice in as many days to the dismay of a volunteer army of Australian nature lovers trying to re-float the stricken pod.