Green canine sniffs out trash for worthy cause
A 5-year-old dog has developed a habit of picking up used plastic bottles around its master's residential district in Tianjin municipality.
Had flu? You may have H1N1 protection
People who have had repeated flu infections -- or repeated flu vaccines -- may have some protection against the new pandemic swine influenza, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
Cannibals nabbed selling corpse to kebab house
Russian police have arrested three homeless people suspected of eating a 25-year-old man they had butchered and selling other bits of the corpse to a local kebab house.
Women disappointed by Gaddafi "party"
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, in Rome for a U.N. food summit, spent several hours in the company of 200 Italian women recruited by an agency and tried to convert them to Islam, Italian media reported on Monday.
Make toilets cool to fix sanitation woes, expert says
Jack Sim, founder of the World Toilet Organization, has a theory about why governments and people are so reluctant to talk about hygiene: it isn't cool.
Gardeners urge men to pee outside
Gardeners at a National Trust property have asked their male staff to pee outside.
Blumenthal 'to make music from dead pig'
Heston Blumenthal is reportedly planning to help musician Matthew Herbert make a woodwind instrument out of the bones of a dead pig for his next album.
Man blames pelican for car accident
A Texan man has blamed a bird for making him drive his million-dollar sports car into a pond.
Fla. man arrested for calling 911, asking for sex
Florida police say a man arrested for repeatedly calling 911 looking for sex claimed it was the only number he could dial after running out of cell phone minutes.
Cow dung to power more Dutch homes
A plant that converts cow dung into energy for homes opened in the Netherlands Friday
