Wednesday, 17th March

The vampire craze shows no signs of letting up. They're all over TV and the movies and, if Jonathon Sharkey has his way, the blood-suckers could even end up in the White House. Sharkey, aka 'The Impaler', is a self-professed vampire and he's planning on contesting the 2012 presidency, running on a platform of outlawing abortion, ending American military operations overseas and impaling rapists.

If a vampire running the world's biggest superpower wasn't enough, a six-legged cow has been born in China. These events are clearly signals from some higher power - the world is doomed.

Which is no consolation for Terry Telford, who was accidentally run over by his wife. Twice. Mrs. Telford reversed over her husband in a large four-wheel drive vehicle, panicked and then drove straight over him again. Amazingly the New Zealander survived without serious injury.

In Iowa, a local man allegedly broke into his local parish church in order to watch porn. Charles Bentley forced his way into the chapel and set up his own flesh cinema in the basement. "He kind of made himself at home," said a local police commander. And now he's facing charges of burglary and jail time.

Finally Jan Vormann is a brickie with a difference - when repairing cracks and holes, he doesn't use paste or powder filler. Instead he fills in walls with lego , and has been shoring up damaged construction work from Tel Aviv to New York with brightly coloured bricks.