Panda too fat to have sex
2007-01-17 08:59:41
Chuang Chuang the Panda is just too heavy to have sex. Thai authorities have put him on a strict diet as part of a long-running campaign to get him to mate with female partner Lin Hui at the Chiang Mai Zoo in northern Thailand.
Teen seeking kiss rams wrong car
2007-01-09 16:48:25
A lovers' quarrel and a case of mistaken identity has landed a teenager behind bars after police say he repeatedly rammed a teenage girl's car, thinking it was his girlfriend.
Man's wallet returned after 62 yrs
2007-01-09 16:44:06
Ray Heilwagen has his wallet back, 62 years after he lost it in France during World War II.
'Plutoed' is Word of the Year
2007-01-09 11:22:50
Pluto is finally getting some respect - not from astronomers, but from wordsmiths.
Costumed 'Tigger' hit child
2007-01-08 13:50:37
A Walt Disney World employee dressed as the character "Tigger" was accused of hitting a child while posing for a photo, a spokeswoman for the theme park said Saturday.
Police hunt pub urinal thief
2007-01-08 08:57:10
British police said Friday they were hunting a man who stole a urinal from a pub toilet.
Book returned - 47 years overdue
2007-01-08 08:55:53
Robert Nuranen handed the local librarian a book he'd checked out for a ninth-grade assignment - along with a check for 47 years' worth of late fees.
Dog lost in Colorado found in Tennessee
2007-01-06 21:31:28
Seven months after disappearing from her yard in Colorado, a rat terrier named Daisy walked into the arms of Tracie Crass in Knoxville, some 1,300 miles away. Thanks to Crass, Daisy got an airplane ride home.
Calf with two faces born
2007-01-05 10:59:42
One of the newest arrivals at Kirk Heldreth's dairy farm is drawing crowds. A calf with two faces was born Dec. 27 at Heldreth Dairy Farm, and word has spread in southwest Virginia as residents flock to his farm.
Bank issues credit card to cat
2007-01-04 09:47:38
An Australian bank has apologised for issuing a credit card to a cat after its owner decided to test the bank's identity security system.
Oiled prisoner slips out of jail
2007-01-04 09:48:00
A Lithuanian held on suspicion of theft in an Arctic Norway jail slipped out of custody — literally — by stripping naked, smearing himself with vegetable oil and sliding through the prison bars, police said Wednesday.
Costumed 'Tigger' hits customer
2007-01-07 17:59:39
A Walt Disney World employee dressed as the character "Tigger" was accused of hitting a child while posing for a photo.