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Strip joint saves kids' baseball league
A kids' baseball league has been handed an £800 lifeline — by a strip club.
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Deaths barred in Italian village
Since the start of the month it has been illegal to die in Falciano del Massico, a village of 3,700 people some 30 miles from Naples in southern Italy.
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Losing coach bites off winner's ear
A middle school basketball rivalry took a violent turn on Friday, one police said led to one coach biting off part of another’s ear.
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Chess rules enforce cleavage ban on female competitors
Female chess players have been warned that they must cover up their cleavage in future European tournaments.
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Girl, 12, sues school for forcing her to give up Facebook password
A 12-year-old girl in the US is suing her school for forcing her to disclose her Facebook password and punishing her for posts made on the social-networking website.
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Two men cooked to death in giant oven
Two men lost their lives after a colleague turned on the giant industrial oven they were cleaning leaving them to cook to death.
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Wyoming town with population of 1 heads to auction
What's advertised as the smallest town in the United States is scheduled to go up for auction next month.
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Crazy corkscrew made from scrap sells for £100k
An inventor is toasting his success after his elaborate bottles opener have sold for £100,000 each.
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Greece: 12-year-old, relatives sell baby to cops
Police in northern Greece say a 12-year-old girl has been arrested along with three of her relatives after selling her 10-week-old baby son for euro12,500 ($16,400) to undercover officers posing as adoptive parents. READ MORE
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Police take on rising wave of Tide detergent theft
Law enforcement officials across the US have been left baffled by a crime wave targeting an unlikely item -- Tide laundry detergent.
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Bar staff spooked by ghost of landlord murdered at pub 116 years ago
Most pubs are used to seeing scuffles and disturbances on their premises, but they are usually not of the supernatural kind.
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Four youngsters arrested after Amish buggy crashes into police patrol car
Four young people were arrested today after an Amish buggy collided with a US police patrol vehicle in Sherman, upstate New York.
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School pupil parades bad grades on sandwich board as punishment
A Florida parent has forced his son to stand on a street corner wearing a sandwich board showing his bad school grades, in an unusual form of punishment.
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Record-breaking eight-metre high cake baked in China is world's tallest
More than 20 chefs in China worked around the clock to bake the world's tallest cake before it was devoured by over 3,000 hungry shoppers.
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Eight-year-old smokes two packs of cigarettes a day
An eight-year-old Indonesian boy smokes two packets of cigarettes a day.
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Switzerland: No to holidays, yes to sex stalls
Switzerland voted against more holidays, while Zurich approved an initiative to shift the sex trade out of the city centre in just two of a series of federal and local referenda held on Sunday.
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Getting older makes us happier, because we give up on our dreams
Contrary to popular beliefs about grumpy old men and women, people grow happier as they get older, research shows.
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Scottish serial bride prepares for fifth wedding aged 29
A Scottish serial bride who married four times before her 24th birthday is planning to tie the knot for the fifth time - at just 29.
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