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A Spanish nuclear power station has been shut indefinitely because of a small missing screw weighing just four to five grammes that fell off a machine during refuelling.
Television reality show "Survivor" can be a grimy business, where contestants eat insects or camp out without a shower, but that may change with a new sponsorship by No. 1 U.S. household products maker Procter & Gamble Co.
Labor unions in the Czech Republic demanded that stores stop playing Christmas carols incessantly or pay compensation for causing emotional trauma to sales clerks.
Thousands of Dutch residents were rummaging through their rubbish in a diamond rush after a jeweler's anniversary dispatch was largely ignored as junk mail.
The high school chemistry teacher who conducted a milk-drinking experiment in which some students drank to the point of vomiting can return to the classroom, but he won't be recommended for rehire.
When someone stole $5,000 dollars worth of Christmas presents intended for kids at the Sacramento Children's Home, the toy drive's organizers were devastated. But that turned to delight when California Highway Patrol officers replaced the stolen gifts with two carloads full of presents, moving the drive's leader to tears.
A Christmas card sent from Zagreb has taken 10 years to reach its destination in Sesvete 10 kilometers (six miles) from the capital, just in time for Christmas 2003.
Practical jokers Jim Bright and Chris Costello never imagined that their idea of dressing a female lobster in a Barbie outfit — accessorized with pink high heels — would save her from the steam pot.
The party for Walter Leary's 80th birthday wasn't the only surprise this retired seaman received at the local Eagles Hall.
He received seven long overdue medals from the Navy, including the World War II Victory Medal, American Campaign Medal, Asiatic Pacific Campaign Medal and European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal.
The stockings won't be empty on Christmas in Arkansas prisons — and they won't contain lumps of coal, either.
As a humane gesture, state prison officials will give each inmate two apples, two oranges and $5 cash.
Over-the-hill chimpanzees will soon spend their retirement years in a Louisiana old folks home. Construction has begun on Chimp Haven, planned as the country's only preserve dedicated to chimps who have been retired as entertainers or as subjects of laboratory research.
British computer scientists have concluded that the Voynich manuscrupt, which has stumped generations of scientists, is a scam concocted 400 years ago by an Elizabethan con artist to bilk a king.
Forget turkey and mince pies. This Christmas Australians are being urged to serve native foods such as smoked kangaroo with wild lime and brandy sauce and wattle seed pavlova.
A story and headline in the Dec. 18, 1903, Virginian-Pilot contained errors. Orville Wright was the pilot for the first flight of the Wright Flyer. It was not Wilbur, whose name is not spelled Wilber.
A woman who was on her cell phone discussing the Michael Jackson case on a radio call-in show was hurt when her sport utility vehicle was hit from behind.
A family living in a house infested with cockroaches and rats set off 19 "bug bomb" foggers in their home, causing an explosion that virtually blew the building apart and sent Christmas decorations into the street.
Dashing in the sun, through oaks and Spanish moss. Sleigh riding's no fun, when there's no snow to cross. Could "Jingle Bells" really be a song of the South?
Growers across the country are tapping science to produce better trees and entice customers away from artificial trees, which now represent the majority of Christmas trees displayed in homes.
