South African police arrested a man on Monday after he claimed to be a popu ...
One candidate savagely whipped a donkey in a promotional video while two ot ...
France's top diet guru Pierre Dukan is urging the government to grade students on their weight in a bid to curb growing obesity.
It could be any standard hotel room in the quaint northeastern Dutch city of Zwolle, with a bed, a minibar, bathrobes and two pairs of slippers. Except for the room temperature, which hovers just above freezing.
Thousands of traffic enforcers struggle grimly to keep the Philippine capital's notoriously gridlocked roads moving every day, but Ramiro Hinojas does it with a smile and a little help from Michael Jackson.
South Korea's president has turned down the thermostat in his office and donned warmer underwear to save energy, he said Monday, urging fellow citizens to do the same to avoid a supply shortage.
A Hong Kong school has lost an appeal against a noise abatement order issued after a neighbour complained about the daily ruckus emanating from its playground, reports said Tuesday.
Students at a liberal arts college in Maryland packed their bags Friday to spend the rest of the semester on a cruise ship that's going nowhere.
Singapore's SingTel has developed an application to rival the voice-activated Siri on the iPhone 4S that is sure to go down well in the island state -- because it can understand "Singlish".
It's sure nice work if you can get it: going to nearly every restaurant in Washington patronized by Michelle Obama and ordering exactly what she ordered.
The First Lady is also a first-rate escape artist who sometimes flees the confines of the White House for secret shopping forays, Michelle Obama divulged in a TV interview broadcast Wednesday.
Authorities in the southern US state of Alabama are studying how to implement one city's proposal for first-time, non-violent offenders to choose between church or jail.