New York City police say a suspicious letter sent to a midtown Manhattan bank turned out to be a greeting card from a headhunting firm.
William Chavarriaga, 49-year-old cleaner at the Olaya Herrera Airport, poses as a cartoon character "Popeye the Sailor" during an interview with local media in Medellin Jan 17, 2011.
Some people brag about serving scotch whisky that's 15 years old. But three bottles of Mackinlays scotch flown to Scotland by private jet Monday date back to the late 19th Century.
An 8,000-pound elephant at a Tennessee zoo backed a trainer into a wall and crushed her to death, and the zoo said on Saturday it had temporarily closed its elephant exhibit.
A Louisiana woman believed to have been the oldest living African-American and one of the last children of US slaves has died at age 113.
Ignacio Cubilla Banos sits in his house during his 111th birthday celebration in Havana, Cuba, on Jan 13, 2011.
She's middle-aged, gray-haired and stays up all night. Still, Heidi the cross-eyed opossum is Germany's biggest media sensation, and she has not even made her debut at the Leipzig Zoo.
Police say an Indonesian toy salesman has admitted to raping at least 96 boys.
Prime Minister Naoto Kan's wife Nobuko, one of the struggling Japanese leader's harshest critics, said on Wednesday she wouldn't want to marry him if she had another life to live.
A girl is miraculously alive in Argentina after her mother lowered her onto the tracks just as a train was coming into the station.
Everyone curses the tax man, but Romanian witches angry about having to pay up for the first time are planning to use cat excrement and dead dogs to cast spells on the president and government.
A pilot's spilled coffee accidentally triggered a hijacking alert and caused a United Airlines flight from Chicago to Frankfurt, Germany, to make an unscheduled stop in Canada.
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