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In a new twist in the battle over same-sex marriage roiling the United States, a county in Oregon has banned all marriages — gay and heterosexual — until the state decides who can and who cannot wed.
As Olympia prepares for its latest role in the history of the Olympics with a torch lighting ceremony for the homecoming of the Games, the city's mayor voiced a threat to strip the showpiece of the word "Olympic" if his community did not get a bigger role.
China's mythical Monkey King will swing his magical staff for baseball in a bid to help a fledgling league take root in a country besotted with soccer and basketball.
U.S. airmen smuggled perfume and hundreds of bottles of champagne across the English Channel after France was liberated in World War II, according to secret files recently made public.
Polish journalists locked themselves in a tiger cage rented from Warsaw Zoo and placed outside the parliament building to protest against the jailing of a colleague convicted of libel.
It only took 45 minutes for Dave Tilton to set an unofficial world record. He caught a 73-pound, 1 ounce buffalo head — 3 pounds, 1 ounce more than the world record.
Germany can no longer afford state aid to help its yodellers buy Lederhosen, the Bavarian government says, in a sign of how drastically public finances have deteriorated in Europe's largest economy.
Poor rural Venezuelans are using nets and hooks slung under kites to catch endangered flamingos to eat or sell their meat as they try to ward off hunger.
The protection against heart disease from moderate drinking extends to men with high blood pressure, suggesting current advice for such patients to avoid alcohol is wrong.
A marathon competition to see who could live for a week in a cable car plying the skies over Singapore has been won by a couple who said they used meditation to overcome urges to use the restroom.
To many Palestinians the frail cleric Sheikh Ahmed Yassin symbolized resistance to Israel's grip on occupied territories, and hospitals reported a flurry of newborn Ahmed Yassins after his assassination.
Violinists at a German orchestra are suing for a pay raise on the grounds that they play many more notes per concert than their colleagues do — litigation that the orchestra's director called "absurd."
Scientists who trained a monkey to move a mechanical arm using thought alone say that experiments in Parkinson's disease patients show the technique may work in humans, too.
Once a week after school, a group of girls from well-to-do Mexican families troops to a meticulously kept house in the south of the capital for a class in how to become the perfect wife.
An attorney punched in the face by his client was permitted to withdraw from the case, while a second lawyer who refused to take it over was held in contempt and temporarily locked up.
