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A song lauding the joys of an "enormous penis" is not obscene because the object of the lyric's affection isn't necessarily sexual, a Canadian regulator has ruled.
All Blizzard wanted was a hug. But the St. Cloud State mascot wound up with the head of his costume knocked off by a drunken North Dakota fan during a hockey game
A Muslim cleric in India has offered a reward of 20,000 rupees to anyone who blackens the face of exiled Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen, whose writings some Muslims consider blasphemous.
A 24-year-old Pakistani woman threatened with death after marrying without her family's permission got special protection on the orders of President Pervez Musharraf.
Philadelphia officials have banned the sale of sodas throughout the public school system, a move nutrition experts said would help guard children against obesity.
Learner drivers, stumped by three-point turns and terrified by test centres, were ideal partners for a conman jailed for impersonating other people to take their driving exams.
FIFA President Sepp Blatter has drawn condemnation from women's sports figures for saying the future of women's football could rest with tighter shorts.
A new insurance policy that covers speeding German motorists against being fined in radar traps as they power down the autobahn has drawn fire from highway police.
A service promising to answer people's prayers with a text message apparently sent by Jesus has been shut down after complaints by Finland's mobile services watchdog.
It's the first and probably last six-legged calf born in Freeborn County, and it's being shipped down to Florida to be part of Ripley's Believe It or Not!
A federal contractor must pay for an artificial hip for an employee battered in a bar bet gone bad because it dispatched him to a place where he had to make his own fun — a remote Pacific Ocean atoll used as a U.S. chemical and nuclear arms dump.
The theft of nine hamsters led police to a gang of boys aged between seven and 11 who are believed responsible for a series of house and car break-ins in Malaysia's capital.
Harleyville is cashing in on the commodity of its town limit signs. The town is now peddling the signs that were once stolen at least twice a year, presumably by fans of Harley-Davidson motorcycles.
Concerned about a spate of violence, possibly linked to Islamic militants, police will provide maximum security for 36 couples who plan to exchange vows in an annual mass underwater wedding in southern Thailand.
A German anatomist's exhibit of skinless and dissected bodies that has drawn crowds in Germany and other countries opened in Frankfurt amid criticism from church and government officials.
In a city with no shortage of good or bad, it's the ugly that often catches the eye. So Mayor Lorenzo Langford organized a write-in contest aimed at identifying the city's biggest eyesores.
