Teen sails across Atlantic alone

2007-01-04 08:42:47

A British teenager became the youngest person to sail solo across the Atlantic Ocean on Wednesday, reaching the Caribbean island of Antigua after a six-week voyage.

Hotel offers massages for dogs

2007-01-03 10:51:51

Austin ricochets around the Ritz-Carlton hotel room, bouncing from bed to chair and leaping high to lick the face of his personal masseuse. He's an energetic 4-year-old pug, so there is a lot of wriggling as his "privileged pup" pet massage begins. But soon his eyelids droop and his tiny muscles relax under the soothing touch of Darlene Davison, the Ritz-Carlton Sarasota's spa director.

2,000-year-old toilet discovered

2007-01-03 09:09:42

Researchers say their discovery of a 2,000-year-old toilet at one of the world's most important archaeological sites sheds new light on whether the ancient Essene community was home to the authors of many of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Inventor creates ping pong for three

2007-01-03 08:27:40

Secil Boyd keeps dreaming up new ideas from remote control flying gadgets to new table games and even space-matter theories. "My mind doesn't seem to turn off so easily," the 53-year-old inventor joked at his Holualoa art gallery.

For sale on eBay: dream holiday with a stranger

2007-01-02 14:37:06

Wanted: Young single woman in need of cut price romantic Caribbean holiday.

Woman, 80, bags first deer

2007-01-02 14:29:43

Gladys Schaefer likes to get things done. The 80-year-old western Kentucky great-grandmother followed that mantra in her first outing as a deer hunter.

Four in 'couch-potato' contest

2007-01-02 14:27:02

Putting in long, grueling hours of couch-potato training just to win a TV sports-viewing marathon is simply not feasible.

Ark. man discovers 2.37-carat diamond

2007-01-02 09:19:10

An Arkansas man has found a 2.37-carat white diamond at the world's only diamond-bearing site where visitors are allowed to search for and keep the gems they find.

Woman selling snow on eBay

2007-01-02 08:57:44

Call it a winter sale. Jim and Mary Walker are selling snow on eBay. Starting bids were holding steady Friday at 99 cents for samples from "Blizzard I and Blizzard II."

Celebrity chefs boost culinary schools

2007-01-01 22:02:49

Cameron Cuisinier's dreams of a catering career led him to culinary school. Now he's unemployed and $43,000 in debt, and he's not alone.

Woman charged with malicious castration

2006-12-31 09:16:37

A woman attacked a man in his genitals during a Christmas party, injuring him badly enough that he needed 50 stitches, authorities said Friday.

A tale of two cities for tourist

2006-12-30 11:40:43

A 21-year-old German tourist who wanted to visit his girlfriend in the Australian metropolis Sydney landed 13,000 kilometres away near Sidney, Montana.