A burglar who broke into a funeral home tried to fool police by playing dead, but two things gave him away. First, he breathed. Plus, he wore grungy clothes rather than the Sunday best of those settling in for eternal rest.
A group of third-graders plotted to attack their teacher, bringing a broken steak knife, handcuffs, duct tape and other items for the job and assigning children tasks including covering the windows and cleaning up afterward.
April Fool's Day -- is the date of a scheduled news conference by American Thomas Beatie, the woman who became a man who became pregnant.
A New Zealand man has been sentenced to community service after telling police he had been raped by a wombat and the experience had caused him to start speaking "Australian".
More than 10,000 camels from across the Gulf will be competing for millions of dollars in prize money at a beauty pageant for the "ship of the desert" in Abu Dhabi next week.
A vicar in Germany who had the novel idea of helping parishioners escape the stresses and strains of daily life by letting them lie in an open grave was upset when intrusive journalists spoiled the atmosphere.
A judge known for creative sentencing has ordered three Spanish-speaking men to learn English or go to jail.
A US young father who severely burnt his infant daughter after putting her in a microwave was sentenced to 25 years in prison, a jury announced on Wednesday.
Petra the swan has a new home and so does her beloved swan-shaped paddleboat. In 2006, Petra, a black swan, became so attached to the boat -- shaped like an outsized white swan -- that she refused to leave its side at a lake near a zoo in the German city of Muenster.
A US Airways pilot whose gun fired inside a cockpit said he was trying to stow the weapon as the crew got ready to land, according to a police report obtained Wednesday.
A US man was convicted Tuesday of burning his 2-month-old daughter in a microwave last year at a motel in Galveston, Texas, according to The Galveston County Daily News.
At a Zen Buddhist temple in southern Japan, even the dog prays.
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