He's possessed by a strange idea.

His story seems to be strange.

Tom thinks Mary is strange.

Life is weird sometimes.

You were always a little strange.

Were you always this strange?

Richard Dawkins The universe is queerer than we can suppose

The king had a weird blue crown!

At first, doctors initially had no idea as to the cause.

David Pizarro The strange politics of disgust

He expected Levin to say something eccentric.

Once again the world became aware of the strange situation emerging in our skies.

Given Russia s economic fundamentals, Putin s diminished popularity might appear surprising.

One thing that I think is a very surprising and strange thing is just how low the genetic diversity of sharks are.

Even in US politics, which can be very strange, this is extraordinary.

Ri Je gang, a senior Workers Party director, was killed in a bizarre car crash on June 2.

Instead, it has been imposed upon him by a strange and extreme version of political horse trading.

It was in a strange atmosphere that 85 members of the Constituent Assembly, with a large Islamist majority, voted on the text yesterday.

The strangest part of this saga is probably the suggestion that gambling on sport is getting a bad name.

Which brings us back to the horror of Taseer s assassination and the strange and divided reaction to it in Pakistani civil society.

Sometimes this occasioned her pain, but at the same time she wanted to laugh because of this strange new joy.

Of course, as the murders show, Colombia remains a bizarre place, one facing strange and intractable challenges.

Given that balance sheet accounting is conducted according to a curious mix of nominal and market values, it can be opaque and easy to manipulate.

There's an urban myth that claims that some people who consume durian in combination with alcoholic beverages die from a strange chemical reaction.

In April 2013, Durov was implicated in a bizarre car accident that left a traffic police officer with minor injuries.

Some will express surprise at this strange country, which is never so great as when it is on the edge of a cliff.

Ternovsky live tweeted a confusing scene in which two unknown men shot at his car

Goncharova turned down the proposal, and instead published an article describing the bizarre solicitation (though she refuses to identify the man who contacted her).

Do we owe it to the wisdom of Europe s political leaders, particular that of the Merkozy odd couple of Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy?

They think that economic reform is long overdue, and, like others, consider Kim Jong il's political system bizarre.

What adds an extra layer of oddness to the story is the curriculum of the school itself, which billed itself as Japan's first and only Shinto school.

Now let me say something about the staircase, which may seem like an odd metaphor for seniors given the fact that many seniors are challenged by stairs.

Truth has fairly consistently been stranger than fiction here, so maybe the return of JeanClaude Duvalier (Baby Doc) shouldn't surprise us so.

They arise from a kind of blindness, combined with a strange mixture of alienation, guilt, and fear toward both Israel and America.

At one extreme of exclusion, for example, consider that decisions about water management are largely taken by men, though in most of the world it is women who use the water.

He receives something from the Academy,' she explained animatedly, trying to stifle the excitement resulting from the strange alteration in Anna Pavlovna's manner toward her.

Just when we thought life here couldn't get any weirder...Twitter exploded with people reporting that Jean Claude 'Baby Doc' Duvalier was on a plane on his way back to Haiti.

We are now in a strange period in which governments, bankers, and journalists herald the end of the crisis just because large banks are no longer failing every week.

Colombia is in better shape today than it has been for years, thanks largely to President Alvaro Uribe s leadership, but it remains a bizarre place, one facing strange and intractable challenges. Colombia s FARC guerrillas have held some of their kidnapping victims for many years.

Colombia is in better shape today than it has been for years, thanks largely to President Alvaro Uribe s leadership, but it remains a bizarre place, one facing strange and intractable challenges.

There is, however, one extraordinary clause Article II proclaims freedom of religion in the Lutheran state, with the caveat that Jews shall still be banned from entering the Realm. This was peculiar, even at the time.

Novaya Gazeta, one of Russia s oldest opposition papers, has implicated Vladimir Putin s favorite restaurant owner, Evgeny Prigozhin, in a bizarre scheme to defame several of the country s most prominent news publications.

If every day the news brings sudden death at a police station, then we're really talking about some strange epidemic that needs to have clearly identified reasons, needs to be localized and combatted effectively.

In the city's bedlam, the outside world is now left asking itself, with every strange, new story that comes out of Luhansk, is this the bungling of a bunch of rebels? or was this part of a brilliant propaganda campaign by Kyiv?

English language blog thespektator writes of the bizarre link between the Bakievs and English football club Blackpool F.C, while aidea manages to salvage some humour from a tragic situation, adapting an old soviet idiom and considering revolution as a rite of passage in the country