A dog that wasn't quite housebroken may have indirectly been responsible for a bomb scare at a New York courthouse.
Jurors in a woman's third trial found her guilty Friday of killing her baby daughter by cooking her in a microwave oven.
The eye-popping hat worn by Princess Beatrice at Britain's royal wedding is to be auctioned to raise money for charity, Buckingham Palace said Thursday.
An elderly koala stolen from an Australian wildlife park by bolt-cutter wielding thieves was returned home unscathed, with an anonymous phone tip-off leading keepers to a rubbish bin in the zoo's parking lot.
If you get a letter from Britain's No 10 Downing Street, don't bother with a personalized response. The person who signed it probably used a fake name.
Police say an iPhone left in a stolen truck is how officers were able to capture a burglar suspected of multiple auto break-ins.
A 10-year-old boy who ran away from his home in Bolivia's highlands to find his mother has ended up in Chile after traveling 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) hidden in a metal container beneath a transport truck.
Several thousand bees that were part a multi-million pound neuroscience research project have been stolen from a British university.
After three late-night escape attempts from a veterinarian's office, a German shepherd named Jack finally made it.
Indian women were subjected to "virginity tests" in the 1970s before being allowed entry into Britain, reported the local daily The Times of India electronic edition on Tuesday.
If tourists find Rome unusually quiet next Wednesday, the reason will probably be that thousands of locals have left town in fear of a devastating earthquake allegedly forecast for that day by a long-dead seismologist.
An escaped Egyptian prisoner was recaptured as he fled a police ambush disguised as a woman in the Suez canal city of Ismailia, security sources said on Saturday.
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