Semi-regular stories follow the progress of Bat Boy; the half-bat, half-boy superhero. Other recurring themes include the oncoming great depression/apocalypse, and newly found lost prophecies.
The magazine claims it always prints the truth (typical slogan: "Nothing but the truth: The Weekly World News!"). So many of the stories are so obviously fake it seems these claims are intended as a joke.
wikipedia.org dumped 2003-03-17 with terodump