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For 56 years, someone has marked Poe's birthday by slinking into the small cemetery where the writer is buried to place French cognac and three roses on his grave in the middle of the night.
Scottish police have been told not to ask people if they are married in case it causes offence to gays, and to refrain from calling elderly people "old."
Dilubhai Rajput had stashed a bag of more than 1,700 small diamonds, worth almost $900, in a pile of hay at his home in Gujarat state, but he hadn't reckoned on the risk of a hungry cow.
Winston Churchill's foul-mouthed 104-year old parrot has refused to surrender to after a newspaper tracked the bird down and discovered it was still alive.
The Muncie Kennel Club has canceled four days of dog shows usually held at the Horizon Convention Center because management would permit them only if the group covered the center's newly carpeted floor with plastic.
The Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, notorious for its teeming slums, will mail contraceptive pills free of charge to women, including teenagers, in poor neighbourhoods.
Tokyo's used panty sellers are among the targets of a raft of new regulations to be considered by city lawmakers in an effort to protect minors from the Japanese capital's thriving sex industry.
A court ruling requiring the owner of a brothel to pay social security for women who worked there as prostitutes is causing concern in Spain among feminists, lawyers and even sex workers themselves.
Mike Rowe thinks it's funny that his catchy name for a Web site design company sounds a lot like Microsoft. The software giant, however, is not amused.
The New York City Transportation Department said it rejected a request from Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz for a sign on the Williamsburg Bridge reading "Leaving Brooklyn: Oy Vey!"
A Chechen great-great-grandmother born in 1881 could be the oldest woman in the world, Russian state television reports, saying she pipped the current record holder by eight years.
Two Romanian mothers who were told their premature babies had died in hospital were called in four months later to pick up their children who were in fact alive and well.
In the first ruling of its kind, a justice of the peace found that a cafe in a seaside town near Rome overcharged a retired man 23 euro cents for his liquid breakfast after the currency conversion.
Oprah Winfrey fans know she can be very direct about her likes and dislikes and she's no shrinking violet. But, she's never had a confrontation with a guest as described in an e-mail that's circulating the country.
The Public Service Company of New Mexico is warning people about a recent radio ad officials say is a hoax. The ad warns listeners of a state legislative ban on holiday lights during the non-holiday season due to a power shortage in the Western United States.
