A drunk French teenager narrowly escaped death on Sunday after falling asleep on a railway track and slumbering undisturbed as a high-speed train roared over him, police said.
An Indonesian entrepreneur is stitching magnets into the headscarves worn by some Muslim women, aiming to cure ailments ranging from headaches to fatigue.
A 12-year-old Yemeni girl, who was forced into marriage, has died during a difficult delivery in which her baby also died, a children's rights organization said yesterday.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Spain's King Juan Carlos appeared to have put their dramatic public spat of 2007 well behind them when they met on Friday, even sharing a joke about the monarch's recently grown beard.
The world's oldest person, a woman who was born in 1894 and gained a measure of fame when she voted for Barack Obama for U.S. president, died on Friday at the age of 115.
German anatomists plan a new show dedicated solely to dead bodies having sex as part of the Body Worlds exhibitions.
A pig dressed as the cartoon character "Popeye" takes part in a costumed parade of hogs at the Malolos town in Bulacan province north of Manila September 12 2009.
More than 40,000 Japanese people are aged 100 or over, up 10 percent over last year, a government survey showed on Friday, in the latest reminder of the economic problems facing the world's most rapidly aging country.
Catering staff at Flintshire County Council have reportedly renamed Spotted Dick on their menus because of "immature" remarks about the classic dessert.
A Newcastle bar has been criticised for offering refunds to customers who left the venue sober.
A South African IT firm has conducted an experiment to show that a carrier pigeon can transfer data faster than the country's leading ISP.
A company has launched what it describes as the world's first "green" vibrator.
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