Want weird weather? Come to Oklahoma!
2011-11-14 10:53:09
After one of the strangest local weather days in memory, an Oklahoma woman with a sense of humor asked on Twitter earlier this week.
Jets grounded for Korea college exam
2011-11-14 10:50:34
Jets will be grounded across South Korea and anxious parents will pray while their children take annual exams that could lead them to one of the country's top universities and eventually a good job for life.
Stolen wedding album returned 17 yrs later
2011-11-14 10:23:58
A wedding album which went missing when a caravan was stolen in Northern Ireland 17 years ago has mysteriously reappeared at the home of its owners.
Strapped county sacks Santa to save $660
2011-11-09 14:36:15
Faced with the difficult task of balancing a budget in austere times, officials in New York's Suffolk County said they had to sack Santa Claus.
Devil found in detail of Giotto fresco in Italy
2011-11-09 14:20:46
Art restorers have discovered the figure of a devil hidden in the clouds of one of the most famous frescos by Giotto in the Basilica of St Francis in Assisi.
Russian man kept 29 dead bodies at home
2011-11-09 14:14:03
Russia's Interior Ministry says police have arrested a man who kept 29 mummified bodies at his apartment and dressed them up like dolls.
NY man drops 198 lbs since Jan
2011-11-09 14:09:12
When Jay Wornick's wife said they both should lose some weight as a New Year's resolution, he took up the challenge.
'Wife-sharing' haunts Indian villages
2011-10-27 17:38:27
When Munni arrived in this fertile, sugarcane-growing region of north India as a young bride years ago, little did she imagine she would be forced into having sex and bearing children with her husband's two brothers who had failed to find wives.
Two-faced cat sets longevity record
2011-09-30 11:27:01
Frank and Louie is the world's oldest two-faced cat, which is not to say he is deceitful or insincere.
'Toe Suck Fairy' arrested on new charges
2011-09-28 15:01:26
A man known in Arkansas as the "Toe Suck Fairy" for a series of 1990s assaults directed at women's feet was arrested after he struck again more than a decade later, police said.
Starbucks sued over restroom camera
2011-09-22 13:28:03
A US man is suing Starbucks Coffee Co after his 5-year-old daughter allegedly found a video camera pointed at the toilet in a bathroom in one of their cafes.
Man wins eating contest, then dies
2011-09-22 09:25:28
A 77-year-old Ukrainian man won a jar full of sour cream for coming first in a dumpling eating contest and then promptly died, local media reported on Wednesday.