A lucky swap and some eager building propelled a 19-year-old Norwegian student to the top of board game fame.
Air traffic controllers lost contact with a Northwest Airlines flight carrying 144 passengers after the plane accidentally overshot its destination by 150 miles.
A budget airline has given a baby and his mother free travel for life after the child was born during one of its flights.
A teenager in Cambridgeshire was told that he could not purchase a packet of Haribo Wine Gums because he was underage.
Police in Xiamen, Fujian province, rescued a college student who was attacked by his classmate after he farted during his birthday celebrations at a restaurant last week.
A man climbed up a cliff and found himself hanging from a tree trying to take a shortcut home in Dalian, Liaoning province, on Sunday.
A newspaper in Denver, Colorado has published an advertisement for a marijuana reviewer.
A TV news report in Australia was interrupted by what appeared to be a giant seagull.
An off-duty police officer reportedly spotted three mysterious figures near a newly-made crop circle.
A "miracle" baby has brought a kind of mystical hope to people in Russia's mostly Muslim southern fringe who are increasingly desperate in the face of Islamist violence.
A Sicilian builder transferred from prison to house arrest tried to get himself locked up again to escape arguments with his wife at home, Italian media reported Thursday.
Authorities in Taipei said on Thursday they would investigate a private training center after receiving testimony and videos showing that children were made to swallow fire and step on glass to build up their courage.