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A 20-year-old man suffered severe injuries when an explosion caused a manhole cover to shoot into the air and strike him through the windshield of the vehicle he was riding in.
A TV film purporting to be a documentary about Sixth Sense director M Night Shyamalan has caused a stir after it was revealed to be a marketing ploy to promote the film-maker's latest project.
The US military has devised a way to ensure its troops in battle need never go hungry — with dried food that can be rehydrated using dirty water or urine.
Once dismissed as a nautical myth, freakish ocean waves that rise as tall as ten-storey apartment blocks have been accepted as a leading cause of large ship sinkings.
Many women are refusing to attend wedding ceremonies, fearing other guests may use cell phone cameras, commonly sold on the Saudi black market, to take their pictures and distribute the images over the Internet.
In the latest in a string of attacks on outdoor artworks in Italy, vandals have smashed a stone bee that adorns a centuries-old fountain by Renaissance master Gian Lorenzo Bernini in central Rome.
While the Pacific Northwest has Bigfoot and Nevada is famous for UFOs, Illinois claims the Mad Gasser of Mattoon, the Farmer City Monster and perhaps yet another unconfirmed tall tale: Lake County cougars.
Rock star Peter Frampton is suing popular surfwear manufacturer Billabong for selling a bikini that features his face on the rear and the phrase "Baby, I love your waves."
Small children apparently have better memories than their parents, researchers have reported. They found a 5-year-old could beat most adults on a recognition memory test, at least under specific conditions. And the reason is that adults know too much.
The U.S. Army has long lured recruits with the slogan "Be All You Can Be," but now soldiers and their families can receive plastic surgery, including breast enlargements, on the taxpayers' dime.
Germany's economy minister was so confident a new benefits scheme was easy to grasp that he invited anyone who could not understand it to give him a call.
Mitchell Schwartz, a 93-year-old French Quarter shop owner, has pleaded guilty to bribing New Orleans police officers to protect the tourist con game "Razzle Dazzle" he ran out of his Happy Days Gift Shop on Bourbon Street.
They may not look cool, but knife-resistant kid's sweatshirts and coats are the latest products aimed at providing parental peace of mind in a Japan horrified by a series of gruesome attacks on children.
Putnam County Sheriff's Deputy John Hedrick was surprised when a speeding vehicle he was chasing squealed into a county parking lot and its driver got out and ran toward a judicial annex.
Don Helbig can't get enough of the Paramount Kings Island amusement park — or its roller coasters. Park officials honored him for his 1,000th visit to Kings Island, located 20 miles north of Cincinnati.
A thief who raced off from a service station with a car — and the driver's mother-in-law — crashed a short time later and left the woman in the vehicle.
Organizers of a race for homing pigeons were still scratching their heads in wonder after about 1,500 of the birds, famous for their ability to find their way home, went missing during the contest.
A former burglar, alcoholic and crack addict has donated $10,000 to the art gallery where he had panhandled for years after inheriting $187,000 from his long-estranged mother.
Joyce Stewart used Minnesota-based 3M's liquid bandage to treat a crack on her heel and within minutes her foot was glued to the floor. It took three paramedics over an hour and a bottle of baby oil to free her.
Joan Indusi, a 52-year-old schoolteacher, got stuck in a mudhole on the Hudson River shoreline for more than an hour when she left a footpath in Croton Point Park in search of feathered friends.
Urban myths are particularly potent in a society frayed by violence and divided over whether democracy or dictatorship will best deliver the life people desire.
A British man and woman face lengthy prison sentences after being convicted of trying to smuggle more than two pounds of cocaine in the stomachs of two dogs.
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