Every day, the same, again
A police officer agreed to escort a car containing a pregnant woman to the hospital — but the car was stolen and the woman wasn’t pregnant.
A passenger who went through an airport security checkpoint — before remembering that he had a loaded gun — is facing charges after going back to report his error.
A man rescued his colleague from the jaws of a crocodile in northern Australia but accidentally shot the unlucky co-worker in the process.
A Maryland man who phoned the governor’s office with an opinion about the mortgage foreclosure debate realized he wasn’t talking to a secretary when the woman who answered greeted him with a “Hi, sexy.”
Chinese police have shut down a Web site selling real-time porn and arrested 33 people.
The French bank Société Générale said that it had uncovered “an exceptional fraud” by a trader that would cost it about $7.1 billion.
After five straight days of pullbacks, Wall Street post big gains.
How the wealthiest Americans enrich themselves at government expense (and stick you with the bill) [video | transcript].
Hackers have crashed the website of Panama’s National Assembly and briefly posted an American flag there, four months after the legislature elected as its leader a man accused of murdering a US soldier.
Richard Branson unveils a model of the spaceship he hopes will begin taking paying passengers into space next year.
Police found a rolled-up $20 bill near Heath Ledger’s body but no illegal drugs in the SoHo apartment (which rented for about $26,000 a month) where he died - but the bill has been cleared of having drug residue after being tested. Six different types of prescription drugs were found in Heath Ledger’s apartment. The massage therapist who discovered Ledger called actress Mary-Kate Olsen twice before calling 911.
New York City education officials are considering a longer school day or having classes in the summer.
Student shot outside of his school in Queens, NY at bus stop.
A 63-year-old woman who runs a vegetable stall in London, and sells goods only by the pound and the ounce, faces 13 criminal charges stemming from not selling her produce by the kilogram and the gram.
How do you become a dual citizen?
The creator of minty footwear hopes to abolish smelly shoes and feet in Japan.
Nine-year-old balances 14 spoons on his face.
Everybody knows 0 degrees on the Celsius scale is the freezing point of water and 100 degrees is the boiling point. But on the Fahrenheit scale, do 0 and 100 have any special significance?
How to get an egg through a bottleneck.
