An AI experiment has taken an unexpected turn, with agents from Claude, Gemini and OpenAI developing a form of communication that became increasingly difficult for humans to understand. Meanwhile, a monkey in a salon confidently took the barber’s chair and appeared to ask for a relaxing head massage.
In the US, a pilot turned his flight path into a giant Mona Lisa, carefully tracing the famous portrait across the sky. Elsewhere, a UK woman’s lifelong fear of vomiting became so severe during pregnancy that she chose to have an abortion, before later becoming pregnant again with medical support.
And in Indonesia’s Borneo, villagers are being paid to photograph and record wildlife instead of hunting it, with orangutan sightings fetching the highest rewards.
Today, in ‘News with a twist’, here are five unusual stories from around the world…
