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The partially mummified body of an elderly man was found in shrubbery beside a big department store in the teeming Japanese city of Osaka after going unnoticed for nearly two months.
Hourly workers at Tower Automotive received $15 gift cards redeemable at Meijer grocery-retail stores before Thanksgiving. Then the automotive supplier decided the cards were "same as cash" gifts subject to federal and state income taxes totaling 36.75 percent.
An award-winning British film producer and conservationist was fined $7,400 for trying to smuggle more than 200 live frogs and reptiles out of Australia.
Moose are getting trashy in Anchorage. The long-legged ungulates that have snacked on your garden and nibbled away at your favorite trees are now turning to your trash in what may be the city's newest wildlife problem.
Despite what your grandmother may have told you, cold weather does not cause colds, and in fact, that goodbye kiss and pinch on the cheek that she gave you may have placed you at much greater risk for catching something than not bundling up.
Microsoft Corp. said that its latest version of Office software inadvertently contained a font featuring two swastikas, and said it would offer tools to remove and replace the offending characters from the program.
