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An e-mail advising nighttime drivers not to signal cars that have their headlights off, lest they become the victim of a violent rite of passage among gangs, is a hoax.
New York University students plan to stage a real, live Pac-Man game in the streets of Greenwich Village, as part of a project exploring how computer games work when transplanted into real-world settings.
A Chinese chef fired 12 times for refusing to cook wild animals has been awarded the honorary title "Green Chef Protecting Wildlife" by the China Wildlife Conservation Association.
No one could figure out why Lara the cow stopped giving milk until an Albanian veterinarian pulled plastic from her guts as heavy as the average woman.
A Dutch tourist's souvenir Hindu statuettes will be sent back to Indonesia and put on show in a museum after they turned out to be valuable 13th century works of art.
Seven score and four years ago, Abraham Lincoln unfolded his rawboned frame from a wooden chair, surveyed the gaslit throng of gawking New Yorkers at Cooper Union's Great Hall and, in his thin, prairie-tinged tenor, began the speech that would shape a nation.
They push and shove their way through narrow subway entrances, they are creatures of habit and they love going out to eat at night in a big crowd. They are the other New Yorkers: rats.
The Stata Center, the newest addition to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus, contains all the mysteries of a child's toy box: Open the top and a jumble of surprises tumbles out.
Wireless Internet is fast becoming as vital a communications tool for drivers as CB radio, truckers say, giving them a way to stay in closer touch with home and to entertain themselves.
Taped telephone message from political candidate to get out and vote can be annoying enough. Some residents of a Lake County community were even more annoyed when the calls came between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m.
It was a stench of decay that caused authorities to search an apartment in suburban Milwaukee. They found a home crawling with life: About 200 creatures — including alligators, scorpions and carnivorous beetles — formed a bizarre menagerie kept alive by a woman who fed them roadkill.
To produce "Super Size Me," his riveting and often revolting indictment of American eating habits and the fast food industry, Morgan Spurlock ate nothing but McDonald's food and drink for 30 days.
A public safety officer being treated for a knee injury at a hospital emergency room foiled a fellow patient's apparent attempt to steal a watch from an unconscious patient.
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