Collie saves owners from fire
2007-03-09 11:40:24
A collie named Lassie roused her owners and enabled them to escape their burning home but died in the fire, relatives said. "The dog saved their life," said Judi Thompson after her parents' home burned Wednesday morning. "Even the firemen said that. Isn't that amazing? It gives me goose bumps.
Meat-loving calf eats chickens
2007-03-08 13:54:00
When dozens of chickens went missing from a remote West Bengal village, everyone blamed the neighborhood dogs.
Parents beat up principal
2007-03-06 10:12:39
An irate Italian family beat up a principal because they were unhappy with the grades a young relative had received and a ban on cell phones at school.
All shook up by ghost voters
2007-03-06 10:09:42
The late Elvis Presley plans to be a ghost voter at the 2007 national elections in the jungle-clad South Pacific nation of Papua New Guinea - if you believe the nation's electoral rolls.
Man jailed for stealing hair
2007-03-05 16:06:45
An Australian man who worked as a baggage handler for the national airline Qantas was jailed for at least two years on Friday for stealing hair from women's luggage to satisfy a sexual fetish.
Nudists sweat it out at gym
2007-03-05 15:20:24
A dozen middle-age and elderly men were game enough for a Dutch gym's invitation to work out nude. But they were vastly outnumbered by the dozens of journalists watching them lift, row and cycle in the buff.
Trickster put shark in river
2007-03-05 14:27:27
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water - well, it is, actually.
Girl's 5 weeks of hiccups end
2007-03-02 16:39:52
She sipped pickle juice, held her breath, breathed into a bag, even went to a neurologist, but for more than five weeks nothing would stop a 15-year-old girl's rapid hiccups - until they finally just stopped on their own.
90-day sentence for subway mercury spill
2007-03-01 22:03:04
A man who was caught on a subway surveillance video spilling mercury on a downtown station platform was sentenced to 90 days in jail and ordered to stay away from the area's mass transit facilities.
Teacher cuts pupil's tongue
2007-03-01 15:23:03
A Milan teacher cut a unruly 7-year-old pupil's tongue with scissors to silence him, police and school officials said on Tuesday.