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A Southern California college professor who received wide media attention when she claimed that racists had vandalized and defaced her car with ethnic slurs was charged with filing a false police report and insurance fraud.
Someone claiming to represent the Red Cross has been calling people, telling them they may have been exposed to HIV, but the Red Cross says whoever's making the calls is not in any way affiliated with the organization.
It's dinnertime, and you're hungry and tired, so you pick up the phone and order your favorite pizza. But you might have just landed yourself a lot more than pepperoni and cheese.
Three Japanese who were held hostage for a week in Iraq were billed about $7,300 each to cover their plane tickets home and other miscellaneous expenses.
The California state highway patrol, hoping to avoid another epic traffic jam caused by a suicide jumper on a major bridge, wants inventors to design and build a gun that can capture would-be jumpers in a spider-like web.
Google Inc.'s looming initial public stock offering is stirring tremendous excitement, but it shouldn't be surprising if its biggest beneficiaries have some reservations.
Why is it so annoying to watch someone else make a mistake? Maybe because it affects the same areas of the brain as when a person makes his or her own mistake, Dutch researchers say.
The government is suing a cafeteria worker who received a $2.1 million tax refund by claiming to be a Hawaiian princess and heir to a billion-dollar estate.
Turkmenistan's autocratic president has opened a gleaming new leisure centre, equipped with a swimming pool, air conditioning and even medical facilities — all of it for horses.
A 15-year-old boy on a wilderness expedition for emotionally troubled youths woke up to find a 400-pound brown bear with a bad attitude sitting at his feet.
A British Army pilot has set off to break one of the world's last remaining aviation records — circumnavigating the globe in an autogyro, the neglected predecessor to the modern helicopter.
German police stopped a 17-ton bulldozer weaving through Berlin's streets at 3 a.m. by jumping onto the excavator, smashing the window and spraying mace into the driver's face.
The humble noodle known in Japan as "ramen" has long been better known as a staple of construction workers and penny-pinching students than as a favorite of the chic.
Doris Gilbert remembers like it was yesterday that day in 1946 when Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower shook her hand, grinned and said: "Go home little girl, and come back when you grow up. We need soldiers like you."
Norwegians rushed out to stock up on beer after authorities ruled it was too cheap following an unprecedented price war in a nation used to some of the most expensive alcohol on earth.
Federal health officials have seized several dangerous pests called Giant African Land Snails from Wisconsin classrooms and have started a national search for the creatures, which reproduce rapidly, destroy plants and can transmit meningitis.
The Belgian army said it was clearing more than 1,000 grenades uncovered in a field in western Flanders, the scene of heavy fighting during World War One.
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