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Kim Beom-hoon was hailed as a trailblazer when he went into the online gambling business with North Korea. It seemed the perfect way to bridge a 50-year divide and open up one of the world's most isolated countries.
Eight firefighters removed a seven-foot-long boa constrictor from the back yard of a house in the hills above Rio de Janeiro. The snake had apparently been fighting with a porcupine and came to the house for sanctuary.
Bats are creating major headaches for school officials in Prentiss, where an elementary has been closed and some 700 of its students are being relocated.
Three men who went streaking through a Denny's restaurant were chilled and chagrined when they spotted a thief drive off in their getaway car, their clothes inside.
On a bitter cold winter day, camping on July 4 is only a vision. But it was enticing enough to draw Bill Miskimen and others to Greenwich Town Hall with hot coffee, DVDs, blankets and pillows for an overnight wait for a chance for a beach camping permit.
Animal cruelty charges against Marilyn Barletta stem from the May 2001 discovery of 196 cats in a two-story Petaluma house she bought solely for the feral felines.
Officials in this small borough are playing dirty, refusing to pick up garbage from about a dozen delinquent customers after nearly two-thirds of trash pickup clients failed to pay their bills.
The mayor of this St. Louis suburb fancied a rare $1,000 bill that was seized in a traffic stop, so the town wrote the driver a check and the politician kept the cash.
Burger King's rollout of breadless Whoppers is a nod to the low-carb craze that's sweeping the nation — and the latest evidence that the burger wars are taking a turn for the healthy.
Car rental companies have come to rely on an emerging technology called telematics — which combines satellite-based Global Positioning System tracking, wireless communications and vehicle monitoring systems — to keep tabs on their vehicles.
Shedding all notions of the spartan utopia it once tried to create, Communist China is plunging head-on into one of the most capitalist realms of all: the nationally marketed, mass online acquisition of really neat stuff.
Subaru is tweaking some parts of the Outback sedan and wagon this year to meet the specifications of a light truck, the same regulatory category used by pickups and sport utilities. Why? Largely to avoid tougher fuel economy and air pollution standards for cars.
In a decision that could cast scrutiny over Internet search engines and online advertisers, a federal appeals court reinstated a trademark infringement lawsuit by Playboy Enterprises Inc. against Netscape Communications Inc.
Your hands don't even need to be touching the steering wheel for it to start spinning back and forth aggressively, all by itself — slowly guiding the car into the parking spot.
