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Investigators in England think a fire at a cricket club was caused by a burning bunny. The blaze destroyed a tool shed at the Devizes Cricket Club, wiping out more than $100,000 worth of turf mowers and other equipment.
Kids throwing rocks stirred up more trouble than they bargained for when they dislodged a swarm of bees from an enormous hive built in the wall of a Southern California apartment building.
Thirty-six orang-utans, which went missing from a Bangkok zoo infamous for its kick-boxing primates, have been found and had not died of pneumonia as the zoo's owners had claimed.
British police are trying to track down jewelry once owned by the 18th century French Queen Marie Antoinette, which burglars snatched from a west London house.
Former political prisoners voiced outrage at a German company's scheme to sell tourists an authentic jail experience in what was former Communist East Germany's biggest women's prison.
Charley Marcuse, the Detroit Tigers' operatic hot dog vendor, is taking a trip to the minors. The Tigers' AAA-affiliate Toledo Mud Hens have invited Marcuse, 22, to sing his "Hoooott Doooogs" three times an inning.
Danish health officials said they have banned several vitamin-enriched products of U.S. breakfast cereal maker Kellogg, saying they could be harmful if eaten regularly.
A mourning family has sued a funeral home, saying it allowed the body of a 71-year-old husband and father to decompose for five days, until the stench of rotting flesh was so strong it sickened the minister at his funeral and dripped fluid from the casket.
A mile-long freight train was ticketed by police for blocking a dozen city crossings for almost an hour as it awaited the arrival of a replacement crew.