Reuters: Oddly Enough

• Soccer: Players rescue ambulance in Brazil league match
  Players from Flamengo and Vasco da Gama came to the rescue of an ambulance on Saturday after the vehicle, which was transporting an injured player to hospital, refused to start.
• Rumor has it Chinese 17-year-old wants to be a billionaire
  China's crackdown on online rumor-mongers and fraud has snared a fresh target - a 17-year-old junior high school dropout who pretended to be a billionaire, gave himself fake titles and posted Photoshopped pictures of himself with world leaders.
• Homeless vet to get all cash raised by New Jersey couple: GoFundMe
  A homeless veteran who spent his last $20 to help a stranded New Jersey woman will receive the more than $400,000 which she and her boyfriend raised for him, online fundraiser GoFundMe and his lawyer said, after the couple was accused of spending most of the money on themselves.
• Guinness World Records celebrates oldest trapeze artist, highest-jumping dog
  An octogenarian flying trapeze artist, the owner of the world's fastest jet-propelled go-kart and a dog named Feather with a flair for jumping are among the record-breaking stars to win a place in the latest edition of Guinness World Records.
• Bees besiege Times Square street, drawing swarm of tourists
  It was a case of hold the honey, double the mustard in Times Square at lunchtime on Tuesday.
• Gulp! Georgian boy solves six Rubik's cubes under water in one breath
  An 18-year-old student from Georgia solved six Rubik's Cubes under water in one breath on Friday, in a bid to set a new Guinness World Record.
• Karachi's rooftop cattle get a crane lift to the ground
  Residents of Karachi, Pakistan's largest city, watched as cattle were lowered by crane from the top of a four-storey home ahead of the Muslim festival Eid al-Adha.
• Swiss brothers get ready to refloat the bubble car
  With its quirky egg shape and minimalist interior, the bubble car was a symbol of cheap and cheerful mobility on European roads in the 1950s and 60s.
• Scorching weather helps uncover archeological sites around Britain
  Britain's hottest summer in decades has revealed cropmarks across the country showing the sites of Iron Age settlements, Roman farms and even Neolithic monuments dating back thousands of years, archaeologists said on Wednesday.
• Muja the alligator still alive and snapping in his 80s at Belgrade Zoo
  American alligator Muja arrived at Belgrade Zoo on the eve of the Second World War and is believed to be the oldest of his kind in captivity, and still in good health with a hearty appetite for his age, his handlers said on Tuesday.