June 25. “Button, it’s news time: Some weird, others not so weird.”

“I’m listening.”

“Salma Hayek, a Hollywood star, has said on the David Letterman talk show that she eats ants, worms and grasshoppers to maintain her fabulous figure.”

“Don’t be silly!”

“I’m not. She even mentioned how she likes to eat them.”

“She couldn’t have been serious.”

“Most hens lay one or two eggs a day. This hen, belonging to the Armstrong family in Cornwall, had earlier laid one egg a day but that morning laid 14 eggs in a row.”

“A freak case, I guess.”

“A man was reportedly run over by his own truck after his dog put it into gear.”

“Simply crazy.”

“China will limit production of disposable chopsticks in a bid to protect the environment. Currently, around 45 billion pairs of chopsticks, equivalent to 25 million fully grown trees, are produced annually adversely impacting the environment.”

“This is not a freak one. Makes a lot of sense.”