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Treasure hunters are flocking to a southern Ontario demolition site where it's believed a valuable Mickey Mantle rookie baseball card was stashed 50 years ago.
The New York Post, in a front-page gaffe reminiscent of the 1948 headline wrongly announcing President Truman's defeat, proclaimed that Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry would select Rep. Dick Gephardt as his running mate.
The leader of an internet cult said some members have lied to health authorities so that they could donate their kidneys to Australians in need of a transplant.
A London restaurant is offering diners the chance to learn whether they are descended from the rampaging Mongol ruler Genghis Khan — and win a free meal if they are.
A blind francophone student at the University of New Brunswick has been barred from English-immersion classes because his guide dog only responds to French commands.
Researchers are studying antirejection drugs as a recent interest in hand transplants increases the possibility that a face transplant could be conducted soon.
Armin Meiwes, the German cannibal who gained global notoriety for eating a willing victim, is being immortalized in a movie by a gay filmmaker, and hardly surprisingly, the project is already running into controversy.
An elderly, impoverished Turkish woman jailed for nearly a month after planting potatoes on state land has been freed after a sympathetic mayor paid her fine.
A Saudi man posing as a municipal worker used a bulldozer in an inept attempt to rob a bank's automatic teller machine but fled when the police arrived.
For years, postman Paul Kierby has delivered groceries and newspapers with the mail to older residents unable to make it to the village store in Singleton, northwest England.
Chanting "Got milk," 50 mothers staged a protest "nurse-in" at a Houston shopping mall after one of them said security guards asked her to cover herself or move on while breast-feeding her 4-month-old son.
Mexican chili farmers, under pressure from cheap foreign peppers, want to give their products the same international brand protection as French champagne or Parma ham from Italy.