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2 charged in Australia after python wrestling demo
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:44:29 GMT |
Two men were arrested after bewildered diners at a McDonald's spotted them wrestling a 5-foot python named Boris in the restaurant parking lot, police said Thursday. |
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NJ shore bumper sticker disses visitors
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 22:44:56 GMT |
First it was Bennies, then Shoobies. Now there's another derogatory nickname for summer tourists who visit the Jersey shore: FOOTs. |
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Good Samaritan thwarts bank robbery attempt
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 05:18:26 GMT |
A Good Samaritan has thwarted a bank robbery in Wisconsin by jumping on an armed man. |
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Parents wrongly told students absent
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:05:52 GMT |
An Ohio middle school says human error caused parents to be mistakenly alerted that their fifth- and sixth-graders were absent. |
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Flamboyant dancing attracts best
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:36:14 GMT |
John Travolta was onto something. Women are most attracted to male dancers who have big, flamboyant moves similar to the actor's trademark style, British scientists say in a new study. |
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163 couples say 'I do' in mass wedding
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:59:12 GMT |
One hundred sixty-three couples in Taiwan were married in a mass ceremony at 9:09 a.m. Thursday, the ninth day of the ninth month of the 99th year since the founding of their republic. |
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Agents seize 14 giant snails at airport
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 13:49:08 GMT |
During a busy Labor Day weekend at Washington Dulles International Airport, one package arriving from Ghana raised some eyebrows. |
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Archive finds stock share from 1606
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 07:11:42 GMT |
An archive in the Netherlands has uncovered what it says is the oldest known share of stock in a company. |
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Honey badger on the run
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 07:49:08 GMT |
Prague zoo says one of its fearless honey badgers is on the run. Zoo spokeswoman Jana Ptacinska Jiratova says the female honey badger named Kaca escaped last week, when she probably climbed over a 1.6m high fence. |
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Romania witches win tax fight for now
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:07:03 GMT |
Abracadabra, we'll turn all of you into toads! That's what Romanian senators may have been fearing when they rejected a proposal to tax witches and fortune tellers. |
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