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There are no hand buzzers, trick flowers or balloon animals in this clown story. The issue is who created Bozo the Clown — and the dispute is wiping the smile off some clowns' faces.
The British government should offer a bounty on the heads of grey squirrels, an imported North American pest that is threatening populations of its red cousins in Britain, a member of the House of Lords said.
Two San Francisco police officers have come under investigation after their departments discovered they had starred in a pornographic movie entitled "Bus Stop Whores" that is circulating on the Internet.
More than 50 police officers in the border city of Nogales were detained for eight hours after one of them repeatedly croaked like a frog and barked like a dog over the police radio frequency.
In the latest act of sanitising New York's mean streets, lawmakers want to rid the city of a scourge most people are not even aware of — previously worn lingerie being sold as new merchandise.
Red-faced postal officials in Bangladesh are investigating why it took almost three years to deliver a letter just 30 miles to a mill worker who had died in the meantime.
A giant three-tiered mushroom which measures a metre across and was found in the tropical forests of the Republic of Congo has left experts in the capital Brazzaville scratching their heads.
A woman has been accused of filing a fake rape report so her airman boyfriend could get emergency leave to return to the United States from Korea so they could be married.
He skewers Hollywood and the cult of celebrity on an anonymous Web log that has spawned a cult following. He claims to be an A-list actor, writing under a pseudonym, but admits he may not be believed.
Hoping to increase the awareness of contraception and stem the spread of sexually transmitted disease, the Swedish Organization for Sexual Education said it plans to deliver condoms by car in a hurry for when the mood strikes would-be whoopee makers.
It may go down in movie marketing history — "Gigli", a film deemed so bad that one U.S. cable television network is trumpeting its poor reviews to sell it to audiences looking for a laugh.
A study released by the University of Texas School of Public Health in Houston has found that younger Texas children have a much higher rate of obesity than the U.S. national average.
The California Senate approved a measure that would curtail a new e-mail service from Google Inc. that scours messages to tailor advertisements for users of the service.
Some critics say the endless stream of hugely popular reality television shows are as dull as watching paint dry — well, now they can test the theory with a live, eight-week round-the-clock Webcast of just that.
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