A leading French chess player turned up drunk and dozed off after just 11 moves in an international tournament in Kolkata, losing the round on technical grounds, domestic media reported Friday.
Tim Gunn is taking his fight against fashion crimes from the workrooms of "Project Runway" to the pages of a comic book. And, wow, does he get to wear a power suit.
Los Angeles has the sun, sea and Hollywood but its residents experience some of the worst commuting in the country, according to a new poll.
British women are happy nowadays to wear mini-skirts up until the age of 40, according to research by Debenhams department store.
A bank in Florida refused to cash a check for an armless man because he could not provide a thumbprint.
Japan's next prime minister might be nicknamed "the alien," but it's his wife who claims to have had a close encounter with another world.
Police in Haikou, Hainan province, wrongly detained a migrant worker for three days because he not only shared the name of a wanted criminal but also looked a little like him recently.
A man who consumed too much alcohol before visiting a zoo in Shenyang, Liaoning province, was bitten by a bear he was standing a little too close to last Wednesday.
Britain's advertising watchdog has criticized an ad for a clothing company featuring a partially nude model who appeared to be younger than 16.
A policewoman patrolling the railway station in Chengdu, Sichuan province, stopped a suspicious looking pregnant woman on Monday, only to realize it was a man with a snake wrapped around his belly.
A Bangladeshi newspaper was forced to print an apology yesterday after running an article that said astronaut Neil Armstrong had admitted his 1969 moon landing was part of an elaborate hoax.
A Berlin court has upheld rulings in favor of parents who sought to name their son Djehad, a variation on the Arabic "jihad", or holy war.
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