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Online pornographers have been among the first to exploit new technology for more than a decade — from video-streaming and fee-based subscriptions to pop-up ads and electronic billing. Their bold experimentation has helped make porn one of the most profitable online industries, and their ideas are staples at Fortune 500 companies.
Canada says it is looking at ways to cool down four trouble-plagued submarines it bought from Britain after a report revealed temperatures in one craft hit 65°C (149°F) on a patrol.
Why do we intuitively fear the wrong things? Why do smokers fret about flying? Why do we fear violent crime more than clogged arteries? Why do we fear terrorism more than accidents, which kill nearly as many in a week in just the U.S. as did worldwide terrorism in all of the 1990s?
Middle and high school students were riding home from school when they spotted a 4-foot alligator crossing the road, were allowed off the school bus to catch it and took it home.
As companies, via background searches, try to call the bluff of less-than-honest job seekers, candidates are resorting to more complex, sometimes hi-tech means to hoodwink potential employers.
Lexington Mayor John Fagot has implemented a "ban" on shaving for every man in town older than 21. Those caught clean-shaven without a shaving permit could face being dunked in a horse tank or other benign punishment.
Amsterdam police will use bicycles equipped with hidden GPS transmitters to bait thieves and track them down in the latest effort to stamp out rampant bike theft.
A man who allegedly had a few too many drinks decided he shouldn't drive drunk so he handed his car keys to his female companions — all too young to drive, police said.
A videotape of an underage girl exposing her breasts is not child pornography, a judge decided in a criminal case against the producer of the "Girls Gone Wild" video series.
At some South Texas schools, a new plan for serving nutritious meals to children is a little fishy. Old favorites like breakfast tacos with bacon and nacho cheese are injected with oil taken from a small, herringlike fish.
Naming your child after a popular soft drink could be seen as a little bit faddish, but the parents of young Diot Coke might be forgiven — they gave their baby daughter the name way back in 1379.
Seeking to increase the popularity of dollar coins, the legislator behind the successful state quarters will propose a similar program featuring portraits of former U.S. presidents on the dollar coin.
Morris the cat is about to get another life. His owner, Del Monte Foods, said that it would resurrect the finicky feline and make him the top cat in a new advertising campaign for its 9Lives brand.
