The Rev. James Rual Chalk has tied the knot for the third time – at the age of 100.

And since his bride is a spry 68, you might say the minister from Morris Chapel, Tenn., robbed the cradle.

The pastor and his new wife, with their families combined, have four children, 10 grandchildren and 14 great-grandkids.

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Cops in a village in India are begging off night duty – claiming their police building is haunted by ghosts.

“A man with long hair and long nails moves around,” explained spooked Constable Umed Singh of the Bharauli police.

But senior officers aren’t buying it – they say their staffers are simply lazy and using scare stories to avoid working late.

Hey, if our cops ever claim to be haunted, we can call them NYPD Boo!

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A contract is a contract, even if it’s a contract to kill, a British court has ruled.

The Maidstone Crown Court jailed Kevin Reeves, 40, for 15 months and ordered him to pay $3,500 compensation for accepting $350,000 from a friend so depressed, she asked him to find a hit man to kill her, then pocketing the money.

Prosecutor Fiona Moore-Graham said Reeves instead used some of the loot to take his wife on an expensive vacation.

With friends like that . . .

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Fishermen off the coast of Montenegro hooked a whopper – an unexploded 330-pound bomb.

They were so freaked out, they threw it back, and coast guard boats are now scouring the Adriatic Sea to find the device, which poses a grave danger to ships.

It is believed to have been dropped by a NATO bomber needing to shed weight before landing in Italy during the bombing of Serbia in 1999.

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William “Weg” Green was too quick on the draw for a burglar who raided his home – he drew a sketch that led cops to arrest the man the same day.

Green, 82, a renowned newspaper cartoonist in Melbourne, Australia, said, “I do caricatures all the time and I had no difficulty in remembering his face because he was so close to me.”