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In South Korea's capital, sweating through the highest temperatures of the year, the hottest topic is whether to eat dogmeat stew or ginseng chicken soup.
A man required to wear a signboard stating "I stole mail. This is my punishment," outside a San Francisco post office was reasonably sanctioned, a U.S. federal court said.
Jessica Christy scanned the shelves of the library and found a book on urban legends. The book was not something Tina Woodruff of Simms wanted Jessica, her 14-year-old granddaughter, getting off a library shelf.
An unidentified farmer and his herd have been sent home in disgrace from an agricultural exhibition in tropical Queensland state for "suspicious acts" on the udder of one of the cows.
A Philippine man and his two sons have been arrested on suspicion of murdering a neighbor and then eating parts of his body after he tripped over a woman relative at a dance.
Sixteen-year-old twins Ann and Claire Recht of Canby, Oregon, have snatched the Guinness Book of World Records title for tallest recorded female twins.
A lovers' tiff prompted Greek Olympic judoka Eleni Ioannou to jump off the balcony of the flat she shared with her boyfriend six days before the Games' opening ceremony.
A truck carrying 8,000 live chickens flipped over on a Swedish highway, sending a sea of fluttering poultry onto the road and shutting it down for more than nine hours.
Fuelled by a diet that includes cheeseburgers and chocolate chip cookies, the United States team will eat their way to victory at the Olympics if their chief caterer is to be believed.
A visibly drunk prosecutor who was giggling uncontrollably prompted a halt in a sentence hearing and later posed for journalists outside the courthouse as Auguste Rodin's sculpture "The Thinker."
A German International Olympic Committee member has called on the IOC's athletes' commission to check athletes' T-shirts after spotting one with a reference to a Nazi war tactic.
The hit board game Trivial Pursuit has been pulled from shelves in Australia's Northern Territory because of a question about the mystery outback disappearance of British tourist Peter Falconio.
A federal judge said that a new Virginia law requiring parental supervision at a nudist camp for kids does not violate parents' rights to raise their children as they see fit.
A judge has upheld an order blocking an apartment complex from evicting a woman who says she needs to keep her late mother's dog because it helps her fight depression over the mother's death.
A trio of college fraternity buddies hopes to make it big with an idea that might appeal to a party host who winds up with a half-keg of warm, leftover beer and no ice.