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Two gay lovers — a man in a black dress and a boy in only a pair of shorts — protested their families' lack of understanding for their relationship by climbing a Central Park tree, stripping, performing lewd acts in front of onlookers and refusing to come down for hours.
In a country where the mobile phone ownership is one of the highest in Asia, a fast-spreading email — that a ringing mobile can produce enough energy to trigger a small fire at a petrol station — is causing great uneasiness.
Alarmed by a growing number of monkey attacks on people, Hong Kong conservation officials said they're trying to catch several rogue animals and send them away.
When workers at San Francisco's Department of Animal Care and Control located the owner of a newly arrived stray cat three weeks ago, they couldn't believe what they found: the cat belonged to a woman in Bradenton, Florida — 3,000 miles away.
Many people claim that the Historic Town Square clock stopped at precisely the time the tornado hit. Others claim it's an urban legend, that some Lancaster resident set the clock at 9:40 p.m. after the F4 tornado hit the square that Monday evening, April 25, 1994.
Actor Paul Newman has appealed to Princeton University to end a campus tradition in which participants binge drink, trying to consume a beer an hour for 24 hours.
A top Romanian soccer club owner said he would send the whole squad to listen to a classical music concert as a punishment if they lose their next match.
Researchers at the University of Edinburgh managed to quiet noisy pooches in an animal welfare shelter, and make them friendlier to strangers, by plugging in a machine that emitted special perfumes: Dog Appeasing Pheromones (DAP).
A German postal worker admitted to putting packages up for auction over the Internet after a search of his apartment turned up a hoard of missing deliveries.