Residents put ribbon on burned-out Pa. house
Some residents of a Pittsburgh suburb have gift-wrapped something they hope will be gone by Christmas: a charred and abandoned house that burned nine ...
18th-century French chateau razed 'by mistake'
Residents of a sleepy French village in Bordeaux have been left dumbfounded after discovering their local 18th-century chateau was completely ...
Russia's leaders battered by 'sports injuries'
First, Russian President Vladimir Putin begins to hobble because of what the Kremlin describes as a sports injury. Then, Foreign Minister Sergey ...
Huston's "Infrared" wins Bad Sex fiction prize
It's the prize no author wants to win. Award-winning novelist Nancy Huston won Britain's Bad Sex in Fiction award Tuesday for her novel "Infrared," ...
Nativity scene Jesus returned, replacement swiped
A baby Jesus figure taken from a Pennsylvania church's Nativity scene last year was found cradled in the arms of a nearby statue, just hours before ...
Man jailed for naked stunt on London statue
A man who climbed naked onto an equestrian statue in London's government district, ripped off its sword and bit it has been sentenced to 12 weeks in ...
Vampire on the loose in Serbia?
Get your garlic, crosses and stakes ready: a bloodsucking vampire is on the loose. Or so say villagers in the tiny western Serbian hamlet of Zarozje, ...
Ram on the lam: Escaped sheep captured in Iowa
A shaggy brown sheep successfully dodged police, his handlers and a few cars while trotting through downtown Des Moines after escaping from his ...
Deer get onto racetrack, announcer plays along
Spectators who came to watch horses at a western Pennsylvania racetrack got a surprise this week when three deer got onto the course first and beat ...
Saving face: Ind. man removing Romney-Ryan tattoo
A northern Indiana man who had the Mitt Romney-Paul Ryan campaign logo tattooed onto his face "to make politics fun" says it's time for it to come off
Wis. mini horse rings bell for Salvation Army
Tinker may be miniature — as in a miniature horse — but he's a big money raiser for the Salvation Army. He uses his mouth to hold and ring a red bell ...
Guilty NM prankster returns stolen toilet paper
University officials say a New Mexico college graduate, apparently feeling guilty over a student prank years ago, has sent a box of toilet paper to ...
Russian children find lion cub, take it to school
Most primary school classes get a goldfish to keep, a hamster or a turtle if they're lucky — but children from one village in southern Russia got to ...
Zebra, mini horse corralled after NYC street jaunt
New York City can be like a zoo sometimes, but a zebra running wild through the streets is not something you ordinarily see. The Staten Island Advance ...
Wild coyotes 'kind of chilling' by Wrigley Field
Wild baseball fans might be a standard sight at Wrigley Field, but a pair of wild coyotes milling around Chicago's historic ballpark — surrounded on ...
China's party paper falls for Onion joke about Kim
The online version of China's Communist Party newspaper has hailed a report by The Onion naming North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un as the "Sexiest Man ...
Blood dripping from SUV leads to poaching arrests
Blood dripping from the back of an SUV led to the arrest of two Sacramento men accused of illegally shooting a deer, then stabbing it to death in ...
Ad with cartoon president rejected in South Africa
South Africa's national broadcaster rejected an advertisement featuring a cartoon version of President Jacob Zuma enjoying a bargain fast-food dinner ...
Ohio's 'cleaning fairy' gets 1 year of probation
An Ohio woman dubbed the "cleaning fairy" after she broke into a home, cleaned it and left a $75 bill has been put on probation for one year. A judge ...
Christmas tree shipment dumped in Austrian garden
An early seasonal delivery went badly wrong in Austria when a truck was involved in a crash and dumped 14 tons of Christmas trees in a resident's ...
Restaurant settles over 'carcass removal' listing
A phone book company has settled a lawsuit over its placement of a Montana restaurant in the "Animal Carcass Removal" section of its yellow pages, a ...
Postcard mailed during WWII arrives at NY home
A postcard mailed nearly 70 years ago has finally arrived at the former upstate New York home of the couple who sent it. The postcard was sent July ...
Cops: Conn. real estate agent stole for sale signs
A Connecticut real estate agent has been charged with stealing a competitor's for sale signs from the front lawns of area homes. Police say ...
2 tons of pigeon droppings in Swedish church tower
A hatch on a Swedish church tower inadvertently left open for some three decades resulted in 2 tons of pigeon droppings amassing in the tower.
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