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The Turner has enhanced its reputation as one of the world's most controversial art prizes — this year's favourite displays a graphic depiction of oral sex.
A French police station has been stuck with a room of homeless garden gnomes, victims of a wave of gnome abductions, after a fresh bid to trace their owners failed.
The German government is admitting that two ministers had ordered a government plane to ferry them around during official visits to Brazil, then canceled the costly jet after it had taken off.
A Japanese businessman ordered to stay away from Britney Spears is suing the city of Los Angeles for allegedly taking away his dignity during a search of his hotel room last year.
October is the month for spook houses, urban legends and frightful stories. If you live in Madisonville, most of those stories may revolve around the sightings of the ghostly apparition known as the Silk Lady.
Pop culture's latest incarnation: singer Jessica Simpson, the flaky, flaxen-haired star of MTV's Newlyweds. She's known for her now famous garblings — "Is this chicken? ... or is this fish? I know it's tuna, but it says Chicken by the Sea." Or wondering aloud whether buffalo wings are made from buffalo.
Casual dating can be dangerous — a study of spiders shows female wolf spiders will eat strange-looking males that try to mate with them, but spare and even hook up with familiar-looking males.
Prosecutors looking to throw the book at accused computer hackers have come across a legal defence expected to become even more widespread in an era of hijacked PCs and laptops that threatens to blur the lines of personal responsibility: the computer did it.
As Georgia's only registered priviologist, Mary Frazier Long has spent almost 20 years collecting photos, stories, jokes and interesting information about outhouses.
