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David Byrne, an accomplished composer, photographer and lead singer of Talking Heads, has evolved — some would say devolved — into an unlikely artistic medium: PowerPoint.
The cyclist thought he had his insurance-claim tracks covered: he had his girlfriend run him over with her car, and then stuck a toothpick up his nose to aggravate his bleeding.
A pair of thieves who seized a van loaded with pricey designer goods took a two-hour detour so they could drive the owner home for his Christmas Eve dinner, before fleeing with the loot.
The scene in one of New York's fabled Italian restaurants would have done "The Sopranos" TV scriptwriters proud — a reputed mobster shot a man dead for heckling a woman singer.
The NFL has fined Houston Texans quarterback David Carr and center Steve McKinney for spoofing New Orleans receiver Joe Horn's cell-phone call in the end zone.
The Bank of Saga has launched a police complaint after a malicious e-mail that claimed the institution was going bankrupt began circulating, prompting customers to withdraw all their savings.
Some 50 prisoners at a jail near Lisbon refused to eat a special Christmas lunch because they said the bread included in the meal had not been freshly baked.
Churches are usually adorned with crosses, but parishioners of a southwestern Ontario congregation were shocked this year to find marijuana plants stretching for the heavens atop their house of worship.
Maintenance crews have found the body of a man believed to be a stowaway inside an American Airlines jet at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport.
Bordering one of Africa's largest game reserves, an 18-hole course features a unique mix of manicured greens and wild bush. Warthogs root around for food on the edge of the putting green and giraffes sip from the ponds on the 475 acres.
A fraternity member was treated for possible exposure to rabies, and he and two others could be expelled for beating, skinning and then eating a raccoon that might have had the disease.
The holiday season is stressful, no doubt. And many people develop a mean case of the holiday blues. But the idea that suicides peak during this time is a myth, and it's one spread by the media.
