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A man dubbed "the cruelest farmer in Britain" by the UK's leading animal charity was jailed for two years for pushing a woman vet's face into a mire of manure and cow urine.
The first Arab reality TV show ended after three months of controversy over its format — parading women before suitors in a luxury apartment for 24 hours a day.
Oscar-winning Australian animator Adam Elliot made his award-winning clay characters for short film "Harvie Krumpet" in a makeshift studio shed so hot, he worked in his underpants.
Tired of watching their investment, and profits, roll away, retailers are trying out electronic systems to prevent customers from taking shopping carts off the premises.
Men prone to angry tantrums or sulky hostility are more likely to develop an irregular heart rhythm called atrial fibrillation, U.S. researchers have reported.
Last year, purple was the new orange for vegetables, but this year it is black that is stealing the limelight on greengrocers' shelves — as the new red.
Spim, or instant-messenger spam, is peppering computer screens with increasing frequency. And the problem may get worse as e-mail marketers look for new ways to reach consumers after a federal crackdown on spam.
After years of teetotalism, Britain's Methodist Church is hitting the pubs. The church, which does not even allow wine at communion services, has had 250,000 drink mats printed for distribution in watering holes across Britain.
Police have arrested six shivering protesters after they braved cool temperatures and staged a nearly naked pillow fight outside Harvard University to promote animal rights.
Rather than give up his prize, a German wine thief cornered in a bar gulped down the contents of a stolen bottle, only to vomit repeatedly as the landlady had switched the wine with vinegar.
Parents may throw up their hands in horror but a new book says that playground ditties are drenched in sex, death and violence and prove that many 21st century concerns have been around for a long time.
Video games can make children fat and, in the case of violent games popular among teenage and younger boys, aggressive and even criminal, Swedish experts say.
A multimillion dollar court case is raging between Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi's media empire and Western Kentucky University over the right to dress up in a goofy red costume and dance in public like a madman.
