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31st Jan 2014

“90 Farting Cows Start Fire in Germany”: Here Are the Best Headlines of the Week

Some rather interesting headlines that you may have missed this week...

Una Kavanagh

Headline writing is largely regarded as being a skill that can entice an audience to click into an article or create a conversation.

And that’s exactly what these have done! In this new feature, we’re taking a look at some of the most unusual headlines that made their way online during the week.

Here are some of our favourites from the week that was:

 

1. Time Magazine

Time had this rather intriguing headline of the bovine variety this week, with a herd of cows that managed to start a fire by… farting

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2. The Northern Echo

A court has been told that a man who found himself sobering up in jail, mistook a female police officer for a stripper…

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3. Ria Novosti

Investigators were told that a former teacher was detained in Russia’s Urals after being accused of stabbing a man to death, in a row over poetry and prose.  According to the report, the 53-year-old suspect became outraged, as he favored poetry and the victim claimedthat “the only real literature is prose”.

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4. Sky News

Chinese police found themselves in a pickle when they were instructed to catch 3,000 chickens that had escaped, after a truck that was transporting them overturned… Naturally, they ran everywhere!

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5. Philadelphia Magazine

Philadelphia Magazine reports that a man crashed his car into the Crown Fried Chicken in North Philadelphia and took all of his clothes off…

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