Miami tops US cellphone chatterers

2006-09-10 16:16:22

Look who's talking! People in Miami and Los Angeles chat on their cell phones more than any other Americans, according to a survey of cell phone use in major cities.

Auto-eroticism undoes driver

2006-09-10 11:40:47

A Slovak driver who crashed into a bus shocked rescuers who found him unconscious and half naked with a vacuum pump on his penis.

NY woman wins lottery again

2006-09-10 10:40:06

A woman who won $1 million from a state lottery game four years ago has improbably hit the jackpot again.

Madrid bans too-thin models

2006-09-09 17:22:59

Excessively skinny fashion models will be barred from a major Madrid fashion show later this month for fear they could send the wrong message to young Spanish girls.

Gun fires in Wal-Mart bathroom

2006-09-08 21:48:21

A Nashua man faces a felony reckless conduct charge after his gun discharged in a Wal-Mart bathroom, striking the ceiling and scaring an employee in the next stall.

Shoe size mix-up costs thief dear

2006-09-08 21:42:07

A bungling German thief stole a pair of shoes in two different sizes and was caught when he went back to the shop to fix his mistake -- decked out in the very clothes he had stolen, authorities said on Friday.

Striptease heats up global warming event

2006-09-08 21:34:53

A saloon-style striptease at an Australian government-sponsored conference on global warming left some scientists and government officials hot and bothered.

Woman, 79, charged in toy gun robbery

2006-09-08 21:31:00

A 79-year-old South Side woman bearing a toy gun and a visor that read "Princess" has been charged with trying to rob a downtown bank.

Mass hysteria in kids as snake killed

2006-09-08 21:26:14

Dozens of children have fainted, apparently because of mass hysteria, after school authorities in Nepal killed a snake, considered as sacred by many Hindus, witnesses said on Thursday.

Gang dumps five human heads in bar

2006-09-07 22:20:18

An armed gang of suspected drug traffickers wearing ski masks threw five human heads onto the dance floor of a bar in western Mexico on Wednesday in an apparent revenge killing, prosecutors said.

Man drilling for oil at 'home'

2006-09-07 10:08:59

Oil prices are so high, that oilman Steve Jordan is drilling a well next to his home near Lake Charles, Louisiana, he said on Wednesday.

Mussolini exhumation unlikely

2006-09-07 09:59:03

Rome - An Italian prosecutor dashed talk of exhuming the body of fascist dictator Benito Mussolini on Tuesday when he said he expected to dismiss a legal request to investigate Il Duce's death.