2011, it's safe to say, has been one hell of a year.
Libya, Europe, Osama... the list of really rather serious news stories goes on and on and on.
But that doesn't mean the weirder side of the news has been letting the side down - far from it, in fact, as this weird news gallery we've got for you below proves.
Featuring everything from Charlie Sheen's finest escapades to flying trampolines, by way of a royal wedding dance-off and a woman's cat-based obsession, it's got the lot. Well, most of the lot. The lot we like, anyway.
So for a laugh, then another laugh, then a few more laughs followed up by a chortle, start clicking through our favourite weird news stories of 2011.