Funny old world: The week's offbeat news

From America's new raccoon football star to why the mullet is more than a hairstyle... your weekly roundup of offbeat stories from around the world."The Spirit of the Mullet is the freedom to think what you want, to be what you want," he said at the European Mullet Championships in Belgium, one of the last redoubts of the hairstyle before it spread out again across the shoulders of the world like dandruff.