Police scrambled helicopters and ordered tranquilizers to hunt what they feared was an escaped wild animal in southern England - but found that the tiger was a toy.
Police say a man wanted for failing to pay fines accidentally helped officers find him when he repeatedly "pocket dialed" emergency services hotline 911 while doing yard work.
The evangelical Christian broadcaster whose much-ballyhooed Judgment Day prophecy went conspicuously unfulfilled on Saturday has a simple explanation for what went wrong - he miscalculated.
A Salt Lake City woman has been charged with offering her 11-year-old daughter's virginity to a man in exchange for $10,000.
A German insurance company rewarded its best salesmen by organizing an orgy with prostitutes in a renowned Hungarian spa, the company said Thursday.
One in three university students in the German capital would consider sex work as a means to finance their education, a study from the Berlin Studies Center said on Wednesday.
The much-mocked hat worn by Princess Beatrice to Britain's royal wedding last month -- widely described as looking like a "toilet seat" -- is up for sale on eBay where bids have reached 18,400 pounds ($29,940).
Gudrun Grondinger (2nd R) of Austria celebrates with teammates after winning the first annual Pillow Fighting World Championships in New York May 17, 2011.
A retired prison guard ate his 25,000th Big Mac on Tuesday, 39 years to the day after eating his first ... nine.
Russian police said on Tuesday they had detained a man who was caught eating an acquaintance's liver.
The US State Department on Friday said it mistakenly told more than 22,000 people that they had won a special US visa lottery due to a computer glitch, and that the drawing would have to be redone.
A court in Cyprus jailed three men for up to 20 months Monday for snatching the remains of late Cypriot President Tassos Papadopoulos from his grave.
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