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A warning issued by e-mail on a so-called Cape Town police letterhead is a hoax. The e-mail warns women who do Christmas shopping during the holiday season to be careful when going to the restrooms.
Ryan McCarty promised those surfing the popular eBay Internet site he had tickets to some of the hottest shows in town — U2, The Dave Matthews Band, Ozzy Osbourne, The Eagles, N'Sync, Bon Jovi, Eric Clapton, Phish, Bruce Springsteen, The Rolling Stones, Elton John and Billy Joel and The Backstreet Boys.
Flushed with the success of making Singapore's lavatories amongst the cleanest in the world, a Singapore-based organisation is marking "World Toilet Day" with a call for more hygiene in public facilities.
Organisers of an Australian website World Cup poll were left scratching their heads this week after tens of thousands of English fans hijacked the result.
British police were given an extra 12 hours to question a 24-year-old man arrested on suspicion of murdering of a young skydiver who plunged 13,000 feet to his death after cords on his parachute were severed.
Police began burning 20 tons of marijuana and cocaine in a steel furnace in the biggest ever incineration of drugs seized in Sao Paulo, Brazil's most populous state.
For a short time, students at a high school in the southern Russian city of Taganrog had to do more than raise their hands and ask for permission to use the bathroom — they had to fork over cash.
Asked to give money for a public display of Christmas lights, the 6,500 residents of Diss in eastern England came up with 5 pounds (US$8), all from one shop worker.
New York's top court will tackle the tale — and the tail — of a purebred dog and whether the pooch is being discriminated against by hidebound and cruel dog show standards.
Children anxious to see Santa Claus at The Crosswinds mall in Kalamazoo this holiday season may have to wait, but it won't be in a long line. Santa's helpers will instead hand out pagers that will beep, flash and vibrate to alert parents and kids when it's time for children to take their turn on Santa's knee.
A television documentary claiming Lyndon B. Johnson helped plot the Kennedy assassination was condemned as an absurd smear by Johnson's family and former staff members.
