Pranksters play hard ball with fans
2006-07-05 11:28:05
World Cup pranksters in Berlin injured at least two soccer fans by inviting them to kick soccer balls that they had secretly filled with concrete, authorities said Tuesday.
Man prefers jail to being at home
2006-07-04 15:28:09
An Italian man escaped from house arrest and begged police to put him in jail because he could not bear living with his grandfather, his lawyer said Monday.
Granny's dream advice helps man win lottery
2006-07-04 15:23:53
A Malaysian won 42,500 ringgit ($11,580) in a lottery by playing a four-digit number his dead grandmother had given him in a dream, a newspaper reported Saturday.
Car plows into crowd at boat race
2006-07-03 18:58:28
A car careened through a throng of speedboat racing fans gathered for a boat race, injuring 11 people and plunging 25 feet out into the Ohio River.
Estonians win wife-carrying game
2006-07-03 11:56:53
Finishing upside down clinging to a man's back may not be the most graceful way of winning gold, but it sure helped Sandra Kullas and Margo Uusorg to the world wife-carrying crown on Saturday.
Lightbulb removed from anus
2006-07-02 12:08:59
Fateh Mohammad, a prison inmate in Pakistan, says he woke up last weekend with a glass lightbulb in his anus.
Video shows how to make geysers
2006-07-03 13:51:44
Americans have a new way to celebrate the Fourth of July: Drop Mentos candies into 2-liter bottles of Diet Coke and watch as the soda shoots skyward. For the messy technique, thank Fritz Grobe and Stephen Voltz.
Woman has 119 nails in stomach
2006-07-02 12:08:59
Physicians removed 119 nails, many of them rusty, from a woman's stomach months after she apparently swallowed them, a doctor said.
US school for sale on eBay
2006-07-02 12:01:27
Local officials in the rural Alaskan town of King Cove have put an old school up for sale on eBay, saying they hope to raise US$1.8 million.
Jamaica decides not to give out condoms in prisons
2006-07-02 12:10:54
Jamaica has decided not to distribute condoms in prisons, where violence has broken out in the past over mere suggestions that men have sex with men in the facilities, an official said Thursday.
Estonians best at wife-carrying
2006-07-03 19:53:05
Finishing upside down clinging to a man's back may not be the most graceful way of winning gold, but it sure helped Sandra Kullas and Margo Uusorg to the world wife-carrying crown on Saturday.
Bad American bosses exposed in rash of tell-alls
2006-07-02 12:08:59
The movie and best-selling book "The Devil Wears Prada" skewer a diabolical magazine editor, the popular blog "Anonymous Lawyer" parodies a top legal firm and a top editor dishes dirt in a behind-the-scenes book at the beauty industry.