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Some tennis players grumble about bad bounces, or the sun in their eyes when they serve. At Baghdad's Alwiyah club, the distractions are often of a lethal variety.
SARS fears have stopped the Chinese from eating civet cats. But that hasn't turned off others from sipping the strangest of brews — one they insist is made from coffee beans eaten, partly digested and then excreted by the weasel-like animals.
Suitcases packed with pornography, bottles of penis-enlargement pills, bank statements detailing the failures of work-at-home schemes, pseudo love letters and dioramas of deposed dictators — this is just some of the art on display at Reimagining the Ordovician Gothic: Fossils From the Golden Age of Spam.
The annual UFO Festival in Roswell, celebrating the tale of a purported alien spacecraft crash-landing on a New Mexico farm in 1947, will have a 1940s theme this year.
Columbus police have added a musical twist to the booby-trapped car they leave out to entice would-be thieves. The city's so-called "bait car" is now rigged to play the theme from the television show "Cops" when officers remotely disable the engine and nab the crooks.
Western Canadian hospitals are losing hundreds of thousands of dollars each year as staff pilfer medical uniforms that have become a fashion statement thanks to U.S. television shows "ER" and "Scrubs."
A man pleaded guilty to retail theft for allegedly stuffing $73 worth of shrimp down his pants at a grocery store and then fleeing from the store without paying.
A Colombian man has been sentenced to 10 years in U.S. prison for trying to smuggle in three kilograms of heroin that had been soaked into his clothes.
About 150 Sault Ste. Marie residents will be instructed to leave their water running 24 hours a day until the area's deepening frost leaves the ground.
An 80-pound chimpanzee dubbed an "escape artist" has done it again. The 15-year-old chimp named Gracie busted out of her enclosure at the Los Angeles Zoo and forced the evacuation of about 9,000 visitors.
As opponents of Key West's free-roaming chickens push officials to relocate some of the birds, pro-fowl forces have hatched plans for a citywide celebration called ChickenFest.
South Euclid city officials were stunned to learn that they can't collect $1.4 million in income taxes from a winning $162 million lottery ticket since the city charter wasn't updated to include lottery winnings as taxable income.
A 15-year-old Silver Spring girl who wrote a note to a local DJ, urging him to locate and play a song by a certain obscure British band, has been widely credited with helping light the fuse for the explosion that was Beatlemania.
A Shanghainese couple has sued their former high school over images of them kissing in a video on "irregular behaviour," saying they were mocked by other students because of it.
A New Zealand train driver was "seriously traumatized" and placed on stress leave after running over a plastic showroom dummy that he feared was a child.
Ireland, current president of the European Union, says it will propose a ban on paying for sex throughout the EU but is holding out little hope of agreement among the 15-nation bloc.
