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A secondary school in the UK has banned girls from wearing skirts in a bid to make its uniform gender neutral and deal with complaints over the "decency" of short skirts.

"NOPE! NOPE! AND N-O-P-E!" begins a post on Facebook. Shared by Lakeland PD, the post is accompanied with a video showing an officer removing a five foot long snake from a power plant. The video is so anxiety-inducing, "NOPE!" seems to be the most apt reaction for it.

In a surprising find, surgeons in China discovered a glass cup inside a man's rectum - and he won't say how it got there.

Here's something you don't see everyday - an alligator shocked toddlers and staff in a day care facility in Nanning, China.

In a frightening incident, a woman suspected of shoplifting managed to slip out of her handcuffs, steal the police car she was kept waiting in and lead the cops on a 23-minute car chase.

A report from Antigua and Barbuda's State broadcaster ABS TV and Radio showed one of their journalists almost being thrown off by high-speed winds as Hurricane Irma made landfall

In 2015, the Queen of Pop, Madonna, released her song "B****, I'm Madonna." Cut to 2017, Madonna is borrowing her song title to convince a shipping company that refuses to believe that she is, in fact, the one and only Madonna. The singer tweeted that FedEx failed to deliver a package after failing to believe she really was Madonna.

An interesting tweet by the fire department of Avon county in western England caught the attention of Twitter. The tweet showed a woman hanging upside down from a window. Naturally, the photo piqued people's curiosity. If you thought the photo was interesting, the story behind is even better.

On Sunday, Nirmala Sitharaman became the first woman in the country to hold the defence portfolio as a full-time minister. Before her, Indira Gandhi handled the portfolio as Prime Minister nearly three decades ago. Ms Sitharaman's elevation has prompted a delightful tribute from Amul.

A research plane flew directly into the eye of Hurricane Irma just hours before the Category 5 storm made landfall in the island of Barbuda in Caribbean.

A poorly placed package left an American man trapped inside his own home last weekend. A tweet detailing the complaint the package delivery company UPS quickly went viral, prompting puns and even some conspiracy theories.

A python that shocked a five-year-old boy and his family when they discovered it in their toilet might have been on the loose in the area for about two months, it emerged today.

For most people, finding a snake in your house would make for a traumatic experience. It wouldn't be unexpected for many to freak out, get scared and even find ways to get rid of the scary intruder. However, for one Canadian man, the experience somewhat posed an opportunity for him to have a pet.

If Maggi is your one true love, this is going to make you very happy. An oddly satisfying video shows a grandma making 100 packets of the instant noodles altogether, because why not? The noodles, made in a rustic setting, out in the open, will probably make you crave for a portion yourself.

Kavita Devi is the first Indian woman to compete in the WWE ring and a video of her wrestling in a saffron salwar-kameez is currently trending on YouTube. A short clip of Kavita Devi wrestling New Zealand's Dakota Kai was uploaded on YouTube on August 31 and has already been viewed well over three million times.