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The Finnish town of Rovaniemi, capital of the northern province of Lapland, launched a northern lights mobile phone-based notification service for visitors.
The untimely bowel movements of a man arrested with marijuana at an airport yielded German crime fighters an unexpected haul of 54 condoms containing cocaine.
A Jamaican man living in Pennsylvania was sentenced to 10 years in prison and faces deportation for using a Caribbean restaurant to sell more than a ton a marijuana, sometimes in takeout containers.
A prison officer, sacked for cracking a joke about Osama bin Laden, has won a claim for unfair dismissal after a tribunal ruled the jail governor's decision was "reprehensible."
If you want to score a goal, make sure you put some grass from the pitch inside your shirt. And if you want your team to win, never whistle on the bus.
Many expectant Chinese women are trying to delay the birth of their children until the Year of the Monkey begins because they think it will bring them luck.
Eight passengers on a US Airways Express flight from Pittsburgh to State College got an unscheduled detour when their pilot accidentally landed at the wrong airport.
A Virginia man has pleaded not guilty to charges he illegally imported one of the most prized orchids ever found after buying it at a roadside flower stand in a Peruvian mountain village.
Composer Aaron Friedman has started a campaign that could lead to a ban against loud car alarms in the city, replacing the loud devices with silent alternatives.
