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A German company has invented a tourist telescope that creates a remarkable vision of the past, so that visitors who look for example at the Parthenon in Athens will see it in its original state.
Not only is China battling an outbreak of bird flu, but now comes a report that more than 10,000 small birds fell dead from the sky in Jiangsu province in the south-east.
A man who shipped himself in an airline cargo crate from New York to Dallas because he was homesick and didn't want to pay for a plane ticket was fined $1,500 and placed on probation for a year.
Eleven Cubans trying to sail to Florida in a 1950s Buick converted into a tailfinned boat were intercepted at sea by the Coast Guard and will be sent back to their homeland.
A flash of singer Janet Jackson's right breast during a halftime Super Bowl performance has become the most-searched image in Internet history, online companies say.
A public outcry over the launch of alcohol-flavoured biscuits in Australia has prompted the government to order a review into whether promoting the liquor-laced nibbles breached advertising rules.
What's red, white and blue, runs off a 72-volt battery and has a top speed of 25 mph? The president's official Bushmobile for the summer Group of Eight summit.
State Supreme Court Justice Faith Ireland has won her second national powerlifting championship, grabbing a spot for herself on the USA Masters Team for world competition.
A Biddeford couple let the world know their football team allegiance when they included "Patriot" in the name of their son who was born on Super Bowl game day.
A Scottish radio phone-in gardening program gave new meaning to the term "potting shed" when its experts unwittingly offered listeners useful tips on how to cultivate cannabis.
The secret of carrier pigeons' uncanny ability to find their way home has been discovered by scientists: the feathered navigators follow the roads just like we do.
Winston Churchill predicted World War I two years before it broke out, Library of Congress scholars discovered in a newly unearthed collection of the British prime minister's letters.
A vet sent to inspect a strong stench coming from an uninhabited rural cottage in south-west Sweden collapsed, poisoned by fumes from the feces of some 20 cats locked inside for months.
Norway's royal palace apologized after Crown Prince Haakon made a geographical blunder by telling Portuguese President Jorge Sampaio his country was on the Mediterranean Sea.
An overseas Internet site is shipping counterfeit versions of a popular Johnson & Johnson birth control patch, versions that won't provide any protection against pregnancy, federal health officials have warned.
Something sinister is troubling Britain's usually genteel world of dog-showing, and at the center of it all lies one question: Who called Mrs Joyce Mann a "puppy farmer?"
