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Protesters who caused a three-day break in chemical fogging for mosquitoes in the Canadian Prairie city of Winnipeg have been stung by the wrath of neighbors who want relief from the biting insects.
The bat Babe Ruth used to belt the first home run ever hit in Yankee Stadium will be up for auction with a chance to join the exclusive million-dollar club for sports memorabilia.
A busy highway near Oxford in central England was closed in both directions when around 1,000 chickens escaped from a truck that collided with four other vehicles, injuring four people.
Shocked German motorists found themselves sharing a motorway with a Swedish vacationer traveling by skateboard until police prevailed upon him to seek safer passage home.
Screenwriter David Sheffield won this year's Faux Faulkner contest by imagining what it would've been like if William Faulkner — a Nobel laureate known for thickets of challenging (often parenthetical) prose — had written for the Three Stooges.
A 16-foot-long Burmese python was captured on a city street after a passing motorist spotted about three feet of it hanging over a curb and called police.
Boosters of Mexico's traditional fast foods are battling McDonald's, Burger King, Pizza Hut, KFC and other foreign chains that have taken a bite out of sales of tortillas, tacos and tortas.
A woman who collected more than $70,000 from the Red Cross after claiming her still-living husband died in the Sept. 11 attacks has been accused of fraud.
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.
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