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The Canadian government is denying reports its visa officers are sifting through hundreds of nude photos from women hoping to enter the country to work as strippers and exotic dancers.
The Freshman 15 is not just an urban legend. It happens. But fear not; there are ways to avoid sudden weight gain without missing out on college culture.
While enabling everyday people to publish a continuing chronicle of their thoughts and deeds, blogs are also are becoming a popular medium for having a little fun with the credulous.
A 40-year-old Indianapolis man was taken into custody after he lured several people to his home, where he asked them to remove their clothes as part of a publicity contest for a local radio show.
A Malawian court has convicted a Catholic priest and a nun of disorderly conduct after they were caught engaged in a sexual act in a parked car with tinted windows.
Now, 94 years after Florence Nightingale's death in 1910, her pet owl Athena has come home to roost at the Florence Nightingale Museum next to St Thomas' Hospital in central London.
An Avon brochure promising a free mobile phone with the purchase of skin cream asked if customers thought the offer sounded too good to be true. Turns out, it was.
Olympic organizers have laid down the law to Athens' unruly cabbies ahead of the Olympic Games, demanding they clean up their act or stay away from venues.
Nick Sigmon, 18, and Paul Collins, 20, are accused of taping an illegal M-1000 — a large firecracker equivalent to a quarter stick of dynamite — to a rabbit and throwing her into Lake Don Castro.
When he walks down the street trying out his nifty invention, Nicholas Roope looks just a little bit crazy. He is, after all, talking into a heavy, black, old, Bakelite telephone handset, with a thick coiled cord leading into his pocket.
A system to protect German nuclear power stations from terrorist attacks by surrounding them in a smokescreen won't be effective enough, Environment Minister Juergen Trittin was quoted as saying.
A poorly dressed plastic dummy with a liquid-filled cranium and cell phone strapped to his hand is much like millions of other mobile phone users across the country: He is trying to get better reception.
Attempts to persuade young Britons that Germany is cool have made little progress, and many still associate the country with Adolf Hitler, beer and soccer, a survey showed.
Kansas City police have taken a licking for a new program that rewards motorists who drive safely by stopping them and giving them coupons for free ice cream.
Texans living on "Jap Road" decided the best way to remove the racial slur from the country lane would be to rename it "Boondocks Road" after a defunct catfish restaurant.
Eating en route to or while riding the subway in Washington is a no-no. Stephanie Willett, a government employee, found that out the hard way recently. Finishing a candy bar on her way into a Metro station, she was arrested, handcuffed and detained for three hours.
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