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Matilda really is a magic chicken. Long a prop in a magician's show, the hen has been certified by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest living chicken.
Science confronted native Indian spirituality for a second day over plans by animal experts to capture and relocate a lost and lonely killer whale on Canada's Pacific Coast.
Female revelers at Britain's outdoor Glastonbury Festival will be able to enjoy this year's show without straining their bladders — courtesy of stand-up urinals.
Dogs in the German state of Bavaria can now blend in with the local Alpine scenery wearing the same traditional attire worn by their owners — lederhosen.
It's not easy being a giant ice cream cone — just ask Andrea Wilcox. Wilcox was trying to lure customers to a suburban Salt Lake City Dairy Queen restaurant last weekend by wearing an inflatable "Curly Top" suit when she was suddenly tackled for no apparent reason.
A giant Apollo moon rocket that never got off the ground is about to get a face-lift after years of rusting away in the Texas heat and humidity at the Johnson Space Center.
A Housing Court judge has given thousands of dollars in rent abatement to a Manhattan tenant who suffered through an apartment infestation that gave real meaning to the caution, "Don't let the bedbugs bite."
Divers in northeast England were recently surprised to come across a giant lobster standing guard over a barnacle-encrusted watch at the bottom of a harbor.
An 85-year-old farmer says Sweden's 5-0 defeat of Bulgaria at the Euro 2004 soccer competition saved his life after he went missing in the remote far north.
Nobody, but nobody, can eat hot dogs like Japan's Takeru "The Tsunami" Kobayashi. And, once again, he's in training to devour the field at one of competitive eating's most venerable battles — the annual Fourth of July hot dog wolfing contest at New York's Coney Island.
Some cricket fans appear to be as concerned about the love life of the world's top test wicket-taker, Muttiah Muralitharan, as they are about his game.
Archaeologists combing through a dig at historic Jamestown said they have unearthed a human skull fragment that shows markings that could bear evidence of the earliest known attempts at surgery in Colonial North America.
Germany's thirst for beer is drying up, but one small brewer on the Polish border has added seaweed and minerals to the traditional drink in the hope of luring back drinkers with the promise of longevity.
French power workers who cut off the electricity at the Eiffel Tower for a few minutes overnight have pursued a commando-style battle against privatisation by restoring supplies to homes with unpaid bills.
Police asked local TV stations to air a surveillance video showing a homeless man who was set ablaze, flailing his arms and running in a circle as he tried to extinguish the flames.
The mysterious slashings of at least 17 horses' throats at a guest ranch last year have been solved, but no one will be charged, officials said. The culprit: another horse. The weapon: teeth.
An injured monkey found its way into a high school in bustling downtown Hong Kong, startling students and slipping back into the wild after a three-hour chase by officials.
Beetles chewed holes in hundreds of books at Israel's national library, but spared the rare and precious examples, including the letters of noted physicist Albert Einstein.
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