The man threatened to denotate these sausages Pic: Europics.at

A THIEF kept police at bay for more than an hour before they realised that dynamite and detonators strapped around his waist were really sausages.

Sing He, 23, threatened to blow up a restaurant in Benxi, northern China, unless the owners handed him the day’s takings. 

The Road to Hell: If you are driving home for Christmas, best avoid this one... Pic: Europics.at

DRIVING Home for Christmas is a popular song with truckers at this time of year. 

But Road to Hell, another Chris Rea hit, would have been a bit more apt for unlucky motorists on this stretch of highway.

This incredible picture shows what happened when rain fell on a full truck of dangerous chemicals - causing the road itself to burst into flames.

One driver who saw the chaos unfold in Hangzhiou, eastern China, said: “There were flames everywhere. It was like a mini-apocalpyse.”

The couple married in 1924, the same year that Lenin died Pic: Europics.at

A COUPLE who were forced into an unwanted marriage in 1924 have spoken of their happiness…85 years later.

Liu Fuben, 95, was just 10-years-old when he wed Shi Jihui, now 100.

At the time, neither wanted – or even understood - the arranged marriage.

But nearly a century later they’re blissfully happy and claim they barely ever even argue.

Liu said: “We are still very much in love and always will be.

“As to the secret of a long marriage, I just remember the golden rule – she’s always right.”

His wife Shi added: “It’s true I am – but that doesn’t stop him doing what he wants anyway.

“In our village at that time, men used to marry at a very young age. The wife tended to be several years older than the man.”

When the Beijingers married, Adolf Hitler had just started writing Mein Kampf and US President Jimmy Carter wasn’t even born.

The couple’s son Liu Shuxi, 64, said: “They still really love each other.”

They had six children, but only two survived.

“My mother still takes very good care of my father,” Liu added.

The office worker was so desperate to avoid paying he clung on to the back of the bus Pic: Europics.at

A CASH-STRAPPED commuter has been caught clinging to the back of a coach – to save a 1p fare.

Stunned motorists watched Deng Chung, 33, swinging from the back of the bus as he sped through Dongwan, southern China, for more than 30 minutes before hopping off outside his office.

Now police are quizzing passengers and other drivers so they can charge the reckless IT worker with endangering public safety.

“I was following him for a while and we got up to 40 miles per hour,” said motorist Tian Yang, who took this picture.

But baffled bus bosses say he saved himself just a penny with his stunt.

“It’s not worth risking your life over that sort of money.

“If he was really short we’d let him on for nothing ,” a spokesman for the Great Wall Bus Company told the Austrian Times.

Brandy taster Liu Ge's nose has expanded by several inches

A BRANDY taster has been left red-faced after his nose exploded.

Veteran Liu Ge landed the plum job as a teenager and has been drinking up to two litres of strong booze every day for the last 52 years.

It is thought the 68-year-old from Beijing has put away more than 35,000 litres of brandy in that time.

And now he has finally sought medical advice for his damaged hooter.

He said: “Drinking alcohol has been just like drinking water to me.

“I had to drink sometimes two litres a day just to test the quality.”

Doctors in the Chinese capital say Liu has a condition called ‘rhinophyma’ caused by the constant expansion of blood vessels in his nose, which is now a staggering four inches long and two inches wide.