Has the world gone mental?

Three excerpts from Sky News today:

• “An adult collossal squid with eyes as big as dinner plates has been caught in New Zealand ... If calamari rings were made from it they'd be the size of tractor tyres.”


• “Parents struggling to cope with losing a baby are easing their grief with replica dolls of their lost children.The lifelike models, called Reborn Dolls, have a mechanical beating heart, realistic hair and even veins...”


• “An Italian man is suspected of hiding his dead father's body in a freezer for two years so that he could carry on collecting the old man's pension.”

And don't even get me started on Britney Spears.