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Forget the jolly old ho-ho-ho Santa you know and love, this Santa is furious: Rudolph and the other reindeer who help him deliver toys to kids around the world every Christmas are grazing on the rare orchids and other flowers that grow on his property.
The "flash mob" phenomenon — strangers turning up at a pre-arranged time and place and performing a random act and then dispersing -— has reached Greece
Around midnight, the lights went out in Baghdad. A power outage. By morning, with the power still out, some Iraqis began speculating over their morning tea: The U.S. military had deliberately cut power to punish ordinary Iraqis for the attacks some insurgents had been making on U.S.-led coalition forces.
With Toshiba's new erasable ink, the green at heart can have their paper without the guilt. The company's new "e-Blue" erasing machine uses heat treatment to remove words and images printed with erasable toner on 400-500 A4 sized pages at a time.
German soldiers may or may not have come ashore in Maine for a Thanksgiving dinner in 1944. But the rumor was compelling enough that a 21-year-old decided to make the story into a movie for a college class.
Pictures of certain astronomical phenomena on eggs that were found in northeast China were not imprints of remote celestial bodies on the earth, said a scientist.
Officers wearing oxygen tanks to protect themselves from the stench removed 49 dead cats from a garage where they had died while waiting for a woman to find them new homes.
The nation's first genetically altered household pet — a fish that glows in the dark — is set to begin appearing in stores next month everywhere except perhaps California, the only state with a ban on lab-engineered species.
Almost 40 years have passed since the U.S. Air Force accidentally dropped four hydrogen bombs on Spain. But the fallout continues with a newly published scientific study that traced the spread of radiation from the accident site — and continuing rumors about a mysterious fifth bomb that supposedly is still leaking on the Mediterranean Sea floor.
A Frenchman who burned his life savings to a cinder before swallowing two bottles of pills is facing life with an empty bank account after neighbors foiled his suicide attempt.
A German tourist has returned a sliver of glass he filched from a revered Thai temple in the hope of ending a run of bad luck that has plagued him since taking it.
Armin Meiwes, the German computer expert who gained worldwide notoriety by killing and eating a willing victim, stands trial in a case of sexually inspired cannibalism so perplexing it could make legal history.
An Israeli cat has been banned from circulating freely in the stairwell of a suburban Tel Aviv apartment building, apparently because its jet black color was frightening the residents.
An Australian inventor who thinks dogs "deserve variety" just like anyone else began marketing meat and vegetable flavored bottled water to canine connoisseurs.
Are you chubby and looking for love? A good destination might be Portland, Oregon, where, more than any other place in the United States, men and women state a preference for going out with someone who carries "a few extra pounds."
Concerned citizens calling a publicized toll-free number to report injured and dead manatees or boating violations have instead been given offers to chat with "fantasy girls" in exchange for a credit card number.
New York's new Mandarin Oriental 250-room hotel offers a suite with a $12,595 nightly pricetag, beating out the Ritz-Carlton by almost $100 as the costliest overnight lodging in the Big Apple.
