The Unewsual XI - the UK produces the second highest amount of e-waste per capita in the world

So we should make our devices last longer, not get caught in the upgrade spiral, and repair things went they fail. But also, at least, this:

The Unewsual X - 'I balanced a Mini on my head'

The Unewsual IX - outstanding from Denmark

Their footballers may be out, despite Kasper Schmeichel's heroics, but there's more to Denmark than bacon and Lego.

The Unewsual VIII - when is an iguana not an iguana?

Let's ignore the strange-but-true state of Prince Philip getting his own top-line news category (ahead of the apparently more trivial coronavirus and Brexit), and instead revel in the magnificence of this headline, and the least creative use of stock photography imaginable...

Full story here...

The Unewsual VII - from Goldeneye to goodbye

Unless you're particuarly interested in radio telescopes, you'll probably only know this from Goldeneye. Whatever, it seems a shame that the Arecibo spherical reflector telescope couldn't be saved before it got to this moment...

The Unewsual VI - the monolith

From BBC News: Metal monolith found by helicopter crew in Utah desert... For what it's worth, this clearly isn't a 2001-style monolith; readers of Clarke's novel will know that the monolith's proportions have a ratio 1:4:9, i.e. the squares of the first three ordinal numbers. Come on, art pranksters, if you're going to stick a monolith in the desert for a laugh, at least do it right...

The Unewsual V - not quite flying doctors, not quite Iron Man...

I suddenly want to be a paramedic.

The Unewsual IV - you're gonna need a bigger board

How would you react? Paddle like mad, or think that paddling = splashing = drawing the shark's attention?

I ask this as a layperson who attributes all he knows about great whites to Hooper and Quint...

The Unewsual III - silly walks

...although some of these just aren't silly enough...

The Unewsual II - the faded beauty of abandoned cars

I found much to like in this news story about a photographer who has been capturing old cars, as they are reclaimed by nature. You don't need to be a petrolhead to enjoy this either, just to know a good picture when you see one; it's really worth clicking through to...

The Unewsual I - man builds train line in back garden

The first in a very occasional series highlighting unusual news stories that I like, despite (or maybe because of) their apparent lack of import.