Being hugged could mean you're being mugged in Stockholm these days, with a gang of thieves on the loose who embrace strangers as a way of picking their

Two 102-year-old sisters in Scotland were officially recognized as the world's oldest living twins.

The entire genome of an extinct human was reconstructed from a 30,000-year-old finger bone and posted on the web Tuesday.

A Florida man was sentenced Tuesday to one date with his wife that included dinner at Red Lobster and a trip to the bowling alley.

A New Jersey man who got so drunk playing beer pong at a New York City pub that he thought walking across a busy highway was a good idea cannot sue the bar

A Florida woman facing DUI charges told arresting officers that her "big breasts" were responsible for her failing a sobriety test, according to a police

A man who broke into a Kentucky supermarket was arrested after being found in a shopping aisle naked and covered in chocolate and peanut butter, according to a

Chilean police say they've cracked a scheme to steal ice from a disappearing glacier.

A Kazakhstan zoo resorted to giving its monkeys red wine to help them survive the cold weather.

The battle over who is the world's oldest living person continues.

A 55-year-old Montana man who says he "always wanted" to be part of a police chase can check that off his bucket list.

A prison inmate who makes stationery and license plates pulled a fast one on state police by adding the image of a pig to the state decal on their cruisers.

Today's the day to show some love for baby potatoes, otherwise known as tater tots.

A British math teacher bought a talented student a $1,190 Armani suit with his own money to send the message that "high attainment brings high rewards."

The FBI apologized to a Massachusetts woman after cutting open her front door and pointing a gun at her during a drugs raid on the wrong apartment.
 

A woman's speeding got her a warning from an Ohio state trooper but wasn't enough to keep her grandchild from being born in her car.

Just two weeks before Valentine's Day, hundreds of skunks have flooded Sacramento, Calif., in search of the perfect mate -- bringing with them a pungent smell

Authorities say a drunken sailor who urinated on a stranger's floor before getting into the 80-year-old woman's bed in Bremerton, Wash., will not face charges.

A cricket umpire killed a teenage spectator in Bangladesh by hitting him on the head with a bat in a dispute over a contested decision, police said Sunday.

Animal control officials in Boston were looking after 71 rats Saturday after their owner became overwhelmed and surrendered them.

A jury has convicted a New York prison inmate of falsely filing tax returns seeking $890 million in refunds.

People use all sorts of ways to try to predict the winner of the Super Bowl: comparing regular season records, judging who looked stronger in the post-season

A 2005 Chrysler 300C once owned by President Barack Obama, has resurfaced on eBay three years after it was first offered on the auction website.

Police in Thailand said Wednesday that they apprehended a thief with more than a thousand pairs of women's underwear in the trunk of his car.

A misspelled road marking outside a New York City school has gone unreported for months.
 

An 85-year-old Alaska woman used a grain shovel to fend off an agitated moose that was stomping her husband.

Doctors came to the rescue of a captive dolphin who swallowed a volleyball at a Chinese aquarium, removing the ball from his stomach after a long-armed

Anyone who has ever attended a concert or movie, which was interrupted by another person's cell phone ring, can appreciate the annoyance.

The old maxim says you can tell a lot about the state of the US economy by looking at women's hemlines, as they go up when the economy is humming along and

Mexico City police say they have arrested a would-be bandit who rode his skateboard to bank robbery attempts.

A Wisconsin man was arrested on charges of beating his wife, but he told police that a "ghost" was actually responsible for the assault, The Oshkosh

A Cleveland television station is covering a high-profile public corruption trial with puppets.

An Illinois man was completely unaware that he accidentally shot a 3.5 inch nail into the center of his brain, and carried on as normal for almost two days

Police say a man tried to rob a western Pennsylvania gambling parlor by threatening to spread a staph infection.

Neither rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night will stop the US Postal Service... and neither will a fence!

Tiny isn't.

Not by a long shot. The male dark gray cat weighs in at a staggering 30 pounds (13.6 kilograms) -- three times the size of an average cat, the

The Chinese company behind a controversial Steve Jobs doll is pulling the action figure from sale following "immense pressure" from Apple lawyers -- a decision

Tim Tebow's stock may have dropped with his team's crushing loss to New England on Saturday night, but the Denver Broncos quarterback is still flavor of the

A Massachusetts man became "overwhelmed" by his horde of 94 hamsters and turned them over to a local animal shelter for adoption, the Eagle Tribune reported

Just a week after her birth, Blue Ivy Carter, the daughter of Jay-Z and Beyonce, has a strain of marijuana named after her.

It's Friday the 13th. If you're superstitious, you're likely under the impression that this is the most unlucky day on the calendar. Here are 13 facts about

A woman was arrested after biting the faces of two children at a northern California bookstore, police said.

The final movement of Mahler's Ninth Symphony is a slow rumination on mortality, with quiet sections played by strings alone.

Despite being named Beer, and making her own brew, a New Zealand woman has been prohibited from entering a home-brew beer contest because she's not a man.

No buts about it, a New Zealand woman has come up with a novel way to raise money: bid to have a permanent tattoo etched on her derriere.

An alleged carjacker in Oregon certainly didn't check the fuel gauge on the car he's accused of taking from a grocery store parking lot.

Authorities say a handcuffed man has stolen a police cruiser in northwest Indiana, and he radioed police for help in finding the car's cigarette lighter and a

Hong Kong police said Wednesday that they briefly detained a 10-year-old American boy who took his father's Maserati GranTurismo coupe out for a spin.

Losing weight is simple: Eat less and exercise more. Why that's so difficult for so many people is embedded deep in the human psyche.

If there's a cat up a tree... that's not news. But when there's a cow on the loose -- we're on it!

A Florida woman was being held in jail without bond Tuesday on charges that she attacked a man with a hammer because she was upset at the TV court show "Judge

A quick search for the word "awesome" will bring up roughly 1,560,000,000 results, and British-born, Los Angeles-based poet John Tottenham thinks that's far

An Australian tourist bungee jumping in Africa plunged 365 feet into a river when her cord snapped, but she managed to swim to safety with a broken collarbone

Authorities in southern Wisconsin are facing a tongue twister thanks to the arrest of Beezow Doo-Doo Zopittybop-Bop-Bop.

A Florida man was being held without bail Sunday on charges that he was running a marijuana-growing operation in his home using stolen electricity.

In six years of trapping, one thing has become apparent to Cody Champ: His pursuit of animal pelts isn't cheap, costing him $100 a week just for gas. So, it's

Wally the Walmart horse is looking for a new home.

A Florida man facing drug trafficking charges made a bold fashion statement in court, arriving in a jacket covered with cartoons showing the recipe for crack

A Michigan minister was raising eyebrows Friday after opening a tattoo parlor in his church.

A Michigan pastor has opened a tattoo parlor inside his church.

A Utah woman dressed up as a man to steal thousands of dollars from her neighbors.

Items as small as a hairpin and as big as a chunk of the Titanic's hull are among 5,000 artifacts from the world's most famous shipwreck that are to be

A couple has found a suspect in the disappearance of their $4,500 wedding ring — their 10-month old basset hound.

File-sharing has become a recognized religion in Sweden after the Church of Kopimism successfully registered with the country's government agency.

An experienced British sword-swallower was taken to the hospital after ripping a four-inch hole in his esophagus during a show in England.

Pentagon-supported physicists said Wednesday they had devised a "time cloak" that briefly makes an event undetectable.

One of France's best-known mail order catalogues apologized Wednesday after web users noticed a naked man in the background of an advertising photo published

PepsiCo is fighting a lawsuit filed by an Illinois man who claims he found a dead mouse in his can of Mountain Dew -- by arguing the soda would have dissolved

There's good reason why some celebrities have dyed their hair from blonde to brunette – men seem to prefer darker-haired women.

An official says an inmate escaped from a state prison in San Diego County by stealing the prison fire engine on New Year's Day.

A North Carolina man is facing criminal charges after trying to pass a counterfeit $1 million bill at a Walmart store.

Forget The Club and car alarms. The latest method of fighting car theft is -- wait for it -- your butt.

An Italian man aged 99 is divorcing his 96-year-old wife after 77 years of marriage, distraught at discovering she had an affair in the 1940s, The (London)

NORAD says its Santa-tracking operation broke its own records for phone calls, emails and Facebook and Twitter followers on Christmas Eve.

Forget The Club and car alarms. The latest method of fighting car theft is -- wait for it -- your butt.

Two Russian men were caught storing caviar for a New Year's Eve party alongside bodies in a morgue refrigerator.

On Thursday night, the residents of the Polynesian nation of Samoa will quite literally go back to the future. It will be December 29 when they go to bed and

Two women were in a Florida jail facing robbery charges Tuesday after attempting to mug a man who fought them off using his crutches.

Pint-sized bullies are signing contracts promising to clean up their bad behavior in schoolyards in the Australian state of Victoria.

One of Australia's crankiest crocodiles lived up to his fierce reputation Wednesday after charging a pair of zookeepers and stealing one of their lawnmowers.

Philadelphia 76ers guard Lou Williams said he persuaded an armed attacker not to rob him on Christmas Eve before rewarding him with some fast food, the

A man was nabbed in Argentina for trying to board a transatlantic flight with 247 live animals including poisonous snakes and endangered reptiles packed in a

A 1941 fruitcake has sold for $525 to an Arizona man in an Ohio company's online auction, and the money will go to the homeless in southwest Ohio.

Hugh Hefner and his former fiancee Crystal Harris are embroiled in a custody battle over their puppy, the Playboy mogul said.
 

A Christmas card that crisscrossed the country as part of an old joke between two Texas men will rest this holiday for the first time in 61 years.

Australian hospitals are preparing for the annual "granny dump" -- where elderly people are left at emergency departments because their families can't cope

A piece of a Russian satellite that came crashing back to earth in Siberia after a failed launch smashed into a house located on "Cosmonaut Street," the

A woman says an airport security officer in Las Vegas confiscated her frosted cupcake because he thought the icing on it could be explosive.

If your grandmother ever gave you a cheesy holiday sweater that you never thought you'd wear, be grateful — it's a hot fashion item now.

You don't have to be a Grinch if you're tired of the happy music, shopping and Santa Claus. Instead, you can celebrate an alternative holiday: Festivus.

An Irish man received an early Christmas present Wednesday -- discovering that a 100-year-old letter to Santa found at a house in Dublin was written by his

With Christmas fast approaching, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) has started the countdown to its annual Santa tracker.
 

An Arkansas woman finally has proof that she bought her mother a Christmas gift last year.

As a 20-something, Erin Turner feels she made all the right moves dating wise. She graduated from college and spent three and a half years with a boyfriend

A study published in Britain on Tuesday has cast doubt on the belief that musicians are at greatest risk of dying at the age of 27 -- a theory which

An Australian museum is fighting a losing battle against cannibalistic carpet beetles eating its insect collection.

It's not exactly a case of "your croissant or your life" but a thief has been terrorizing bakeries in Paris, making off with a passel of pastries since early

Police in northeast England were called to sort out a disturbance at their own Christmas party.