Python gulps queen-size blanket
2006-07-20 10:43:32
It took surgery to save a 12-foot Burmese python after it swallowed an entire queen-size electric blanket with the electrical cord and control box.
Don't believe everything you read...
2006-07-20 10:12:34
The National Enquirer celebrity magazine has apologized to Britney Spears in its British edition for reporting that the pop star was ready to divorce her husband Kevin Federline.
Italy: Don't force wife to scrub floor
2006-07-19 17:02:15
Forcing your wife to kneel down and scrub the house floor clean is a crime because it amounts to mistreatment, Italy's highest appeals court ruled on Tuesday.
Hey! Who turned me in?
2006-07-19 10:47:41
A young Croat who posted a photograph of himself speeding on a motorbike on the Web was tracked down and fined by the police, the Jutarnji List daily reported Tuesday.
Thief pays back for stolen bike
2006-07-19 10:36:22
Overcome with remorse at having stolen a bicycle, a thief in Germany wrote the victim a letter and fully recompensed him for the loss, police said Monday.
Doctor, your sponge is beeping
2006-07-18 15:05:11
Technology that helps airlines keep track of baggage and sounds an alarm when a shoplifter tries to leave the store may be able to stop surgeons from losing a sponge inside a patient, a study said on Monday.
Police seek clown-face robbers
2006-07-17 10:25:12
Police are on the lookout for members of a machete-wielding gang in angry clown make-up after a rampage of robbery and violence that left nearly two dozen people injured in a park in western Washington state.
Woman asks 911 to send cutest cop
2006-07-17 10:21:40
A US woman who called 911 to get "the cutest cop I've seen" sent back to her home got a date all right, a court date.
Wildlife share NASA launch site
2006-07-17 10:01:47
Alligators, manatees and vultures share Kennedy Space Centre with space shuttle Discovery, so for more than 40 years NASA has had to adjust to launching rockets in the middle of a national wildlife refuge.
Postman caught with letters
2006-07-15 11:29:30
A Berlin postal worker who was caught with more than several thousand undelivered letters in his basement has admitted he was overwhelmed by the job but insisted he planned to deliver them soon.
Suspected thief robs judge at trial
2006-07-15 11:28:21
A 61-year-old German on trial for theft got himself into more trouble when he stole from the judge during his court hearing, police said Thursday.
Dolphin pod swims up New Zealand river
2006-07-14 22:29:37
A group of bottlenose dolphins left the open sea and swam up a New Zealand river, apparently to escape killer whales, a conservation official said Friday.