Today's Weird News

First, a man died of the plague. Yes, in this day and age. And what's more, he caught it from a lion.

Then there's the banker who got bored of his job and decided to become a surgeon. He faked all of his qualifications, and still was accepted for a job. He was only found out after he had done 190 operations, because of an anonymous tip-off. His surgery work was so good, nobody suspected a thing. I think it's a sad shame that he got sent to prison.

Finally, the arachnophobe astronaut's worst nightmare. They took two spiders into space, to see how they spin webs without gravity. And now, one of the spiders is not in its tank. They think it is somewhere on the ship, but they don't know where...