Quirky News
From the weird to the wonderful, The Euro Weekly News stand out as a news source with their articles about wonderful shows of human kindness, to controversial TikTok trends and everything else you wouldn’t expect! Reporting on quirky events around the world, British expats and international travellers can easily stay up to date, or seek a bit of entertainment.
Spanish TV hosts left stunned by ‘most sunburnt men in Ireland’ comedy sketch after mistaking it for real news
A recent sketch from ComedyJOE, an entertainment section of the JOE Irish news outlet, has recently gone viral for an amusing reason: a Spanish morning...
Murcia police rush to rooftop after ”dangerous wild animal” reports in residential area
Residents in Molina de Segura (Murcia), contacted emergency services after spotting what they believed to be a dangerous animal on the rooftops of a residential...
Humanoid robot rental service does the housework for €130. Gatsby startup launches robot hire option
The Roomba was a great design but had its limitations. The Thermomix, a versatile, all-in-one multicooker and food processor, was a great help in the...
Burglar hides from Dutch police under a laundry basket
Police officers from Zoetermeer in the Netherlands responded immediately to reports of suspicious activity near a residence in the Rokkeveen neighbourhood in south Holland on...
Famed for being the most handsome pin-up cleric on the Italian calendar, yet never been a cleric
Giovanni Galizia chuckles when he discusses his brush with unexpected fame through a Roman souvenir that has intrigued buyers for more than twenty years. Posing...
Wild peacocks overrun tiny Italian village intimidating locals and terrifying children
Residents in Punta Marina near Ravenna are having to put up with the constant disruption from a booming peacock population that is now taking over...
Would you let astrology guide your next move? Why travellers are turning to the stars and what choosing Spain says about you
Would you let astrology choose your next move? It’s a question more travellers are beginning to ask, as star signs, birth charts and astrocartography move...
Switzerland has a new ‘King’ – kind of. Man exploits legal loophole to build an empire
Switzerland has a new King. At least 117,000 square metres of Switzerland has a new King, as one aspiring monarch builds an empire through legal...
Phallic flight fury: Finnish Air Force cadets in trouble for sky drawings
Finnish Air Force cadets have found themselves in serious trouble after turning the sky into their very own canvas, drawing "penis-shaped" patterns during a training...
IKEA’s meatball lollipop is real, yes really real.
If you’ve ever looked at IKEA’s famous Swedish meatballs and thought to yourself ‘This needs to be on a stick’ then you’re in luck. IKEA...
Striking gold: man finds €30,000 gold bar in second-hand safe
There's nothing quite as good as finding a long-forgotten fiver in your jean pocket. Except maybe finding a gold-bar bar worth more than €30,000 in...
Could robots solve Europe’s growing wild boar problem? Warsaw experiment goes viral
Poland has come up with a novel way to get rid of packs of roaming wild boars from busy towns and cities, and it is...
Viral mattress trailer siesta stunt on Spanish motorway causes laughter and double-takes
Motorway traffic between Seville and Huelva delivered an unforgettable roadside moment recently. Drivers witnessed a car towing an open trailer piled high with mattresses from...
Senior pilot takes last flight on Boeing 757 on hair-raising low flyby over mum’s house
Icelandair has reported one of their own pilots to the police after he flew a Boeing 757 at an unusually low altitude over a residential...