A man who was at an illegal cockfight in central California died after being stabbed in the leg by a bird that had a knife attached to its own limb, officials confirmed Monday.
A Myanmar child has claimed the Guinness world record for having more fingers and toes, the local weekly Messenger News reported Monday.
A total of 85 tribal Muslim and Hindu couples from various villages across the state took their wedding vows on Sunday during the day-long mass marriage ceremony organised by a non-governmental organisation
From plans to shower Silvio Berlusconi's villa with condoms to parodies set to the soundtrack from the musical Grease, Italians are protesting the prime minister's sex scandals with a mix of outrage and humour.
Half of men would forgive their female partner's infidelity, as long as it was with another woman, according to a new study on cheating.
A mail carrier on New York's Long Island is accused of pinching thousands of discount coupons intended for residents' mailboxes.
At least three jurors in Cleveland say the evidence was so thin against a man jailed for weeks in an assault case that they want to give him their juror pay.
The calf was born to first-time parents, mother Kati Rain and father Ajabu, at the Saint Louis Zoo on Jan 14, 2011. Weighing 120-1/2 pounds, the little male is nursing well and being cared for by his mother.
Taiwan has been experimenting with a simple solution to the perennial problems of pollution, smell and excessive water use on pig farms: train the pigs to use a toilet.
A marauding monkey that terrorized resort towns in central Japan by biting nearly 120 people was captured Jan 25 after briefly escaping captivity.
Authorities have charged a US woman with felony animal cruelty, saying she hanged her nephew's pit bull from a tree with an electrical cord and burned its body because the dog chewed on her Bible.
A new species of giant crayfish literally crawled out from under a rock in Tennessee, proving that large new species of animals can be found in highly populated and well-explored places, researchers said on Wednesday.
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