
A Romanian couple named their son 'Yahoo' as a sign of gratitude for their having met over the Internet.

A man freed himself from an avalanche by drinking beer and urinating on the snow to melt it.

Women in Germany face the loss of unemployment benefits if they decline to accept work in brothels.

A mouse set a house on fire after the homeowner threw the rodent into a pile of burning leaves.

An Oregon girl's message-in-a-bottle was found by a boy in Hawaii.

An alligator captured in the Chicago River in June 2008 was the first such creature ever found in that body of water.

A vengeful Polish dentist pulled out all of her ex-boyfriend’s teeth after he dumped her.

A Swedish man died after having sex with hornet's nest.

A man in China has sued his wife for bearing him ugly children.

The Gateway Arch in St. Louis is slated for demolition in early 2015.

Doctors discovered that a pregnant woman's unborn daughter was also pregnant.

A death row inmate was released from prison after two execution attempts failed.

Oprah Winfrey posted bail for 'sexy felon' Jeremy Meeks.

President Obama has proclaimed August 2014 to be 'International Muslim Awareness Month.'

Police recently found 17 plastic-wrapped bodies in the Ohio River.

U.S. schools are requiring children to be implanted with RFID chips in an effort to curb gun violence.

An Oklahoma City McDonald's was caught with horse meat and human meat in their freezer.

Police in New Jersey found a body that had lain undisturbed for five years under a motel bed.

Former president George W. Bush was arrested in Dallas for cocaine possession.

Yankee shortstop Derek Jeter has cancelled his retirement plans to sign with the Boston Red Sox.

Actor Russell Johnson of Gilligan's Island fame has been identified as the Zodiac Killer.

Coca-Cola is recalling millions of bottles of Coke with the name Michael on the label.

A school of killer whales attacked and killed 16 crewmembers of a Japanese whaling boat.

A NYPD police officer killed a baby following a breastfeeding dispute with the child's mother.

Photograph shows a honeymooner taking an underwater selfie moments before he was killed by a shark.

The artificial sweetener aspartame was originally developed as an ant poison.
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