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A Sri Lankan company that made personalized stationery for President Bush from paper made of elephant dung is asking people to use its products to help the country's dwindling elephant population.
An unincorporated area of Colorado re-elected Paco Bell, a donkey, as its mayor, and that wasn't even close. Two of the four candidates didn't show up.
Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry doesn't have a problem with his wife telling an insistent journalist to "shove it" when urged to explain her plea for more civility in politics.
Angry hotel workers in Norway want to ban pay-TV pornography to stop naked porn-watching guests calling room service to lure female staff to their rooms.
When a 3-year-old chocolate Labrador retriever named Maddy got tangled in a 10-foot rope securing a trampoline floating on a lake, owner Matt Tollefson didn't think twice. Tollefson dove in after her.
Weighing in at 416 pounds, Giovanna Guidoni, is not your average beauty contest winner. But then again, Italy's annual Miss Cicciona competition is not your average beauty contest.
Officials in western Japan were marveling at the generosity of a mystery philanthropist who donated a $1.8 million lottery ticket to help victims of recent torrential rainstorms.
When four suspected burglars tried to make off with her belongings, Janice Gentry and her sons outfoxed them by fashioning a tripwire out of a fishing line and blocking the suspects until authorities arrived and arrested them.
In 1963 America heard a song on its radios, a song in which the band was sloppy and loud and the vocalist sounded drunk, or maybe under the spell of some lustful urge.
Police detained a family after airport authorities mistakenly reported their small plane had violated a no-fly zone near President Bush's Crawford ranch. In the confusion, the pilot they were seeking drove away.
Three Singaporeans have thrown down the gauntlet to Hollywood fans worldwide, watching more than 36 flicks over 72 hours and claiming a new world record.
Many large signs are expected to be put up by a creek in Edgewater after residents complained that they swam in it not knowing it was contaminated with raw sewage.
Gannett and Captivate Network, along with a handful of smaller foreign and domestic rivals, see the elevator as a sort of upwardly mobile theater where viewers can digest news headlines, sports scores, weather updates and — ofcourse — advertisements.
On his eighth try, a North Carolina real estate broker — with a silver-white beard and khaki fisherman's vest — won the annual Ernest Hemingway look-alike contest.
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