Helen Staudinger, 92, wanted a kiss. But authorities say after her 53-year-old neighbor refused, the central Florida woman aimed a semi-automatic pistol at his house and fired four times.
A package found by a security guard at a US federal office building in Detroit sat three for weeks before someone thought to screen it and found it was a bomb, an official who represents unionized guards said on Wednesday.
Police say three men pretending to be customers stole a 250,000-euro ($353,200) diamond ring from the Tiffany & Co. store in Paris' upscale Printemps department store.
Adultery may be a sin, but it soon won't be a crime anymore in Mexico. The Mexican Senate has repealed part of the Federal Criminal Code that made cheating on a spouse an offense punishable by two years in prison.
A sculpture of a Mayan warrior that sold for more than $4 million at a Paris auction house this week is a fake, Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History said on Tuesday.
A group of transgender residents filed a lawsuit against New York City over what they say are burdensome requirements for them to change the gender on their birth certificates.
A couple wearing masks they randomly bought on their way to the West Lake kiss by the lake in Hangzhou.
Sudden bursts of moderate to intense physical activity -- such as jogging or having sex -- significantly increase the risk of having a heart attack, especially in people who do not get regular exercise, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
Lithuanian customs and postal officials say they have found a fully functional machine gun dating from World War II, complete with ammunition, in a package at Vilnius International Airport.
The Kremlin is auctioning off a vacation spot much loved by the late Russian president, a lakeside hotel complex in the woods of Karelia, east of Finland, complete with covered tennis court, sauna, boathouse and boiler room.
A New York man has been arrested for allegedly selling illegal prescription drugs from his ice cream truck, making more than $1 million in a year, prosecutors said.
Like some bad science-fiction movie, Philippine fishermen are encountering strange alien creatures: tough, speckled fish with sharp spines that tear and rip their nets.
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