Brazilian police say a remote-controlled model helicopter killed a 6-year-old boy after it hit him in the head during a demonstration.

VIDEO: Tortoise fitted with a customised skateboard after her back legs packed up... and now she's mating again.

VIDEO: Tortoise fitted with a customised skateboard after her back legs packed up... and now she's mating again.

Residents of a rural Colorado town say a cow named Apple chased off a bear that had climbed into her favorite apple tree

Pigeons come in many shades in New York City -- but purple is typically not one of them

By DAMIEN HENDERSON For bigfoot hunters forced to contend with scraps of blurry photos and hotly disputed sightings of the mighty beast, yesterday marked an epochal moment.

A Kentucky sheriff drove 4,100 miles to California to pick up a fugitive, then realized when he got back he had the wrong guy. Butler County Sheriff Joe Gaddie and a deputy took the trip to find a man named Joe Orus, who was wanted on charges of fleeing and...

Life can get a little lonely for bachelors in the Australian Outback mining town of Mount Isa. So the mayor has offered up a solution: recruit ugly women. Mayor John Molony found himself under attack Monday over comments he made to a local newspaper that...

A Sacramento area man has been arrested after he allegedly shot his own vehicle and another truck in a road rage incident. California Highway Patrol Sgt. Dave Eisenbarth said Glenn Daniel Sutton of North Highlands was arrested in Olivehurst on Sunday after...

Reuters - Italy's successful women's fencing team were angered at the weekend when they flew back from Beijing in economy while the nation's under-achieving Olympic football players were stretching out in first class.

A sidewalk project means there may be a little bounce to the beer kegs instead of dings in the pavement when delivery trucks unload

A Kentucky sheriff drove 4,100 miles to California to pick up a fugitive, then realized when he got back he had the wrong guy

Reuters - Bosnia's failure to establish a coherent system of government more than a decade after its ethnic war has had some strange consequences -- among them a dire lack of prison space for Sarajevo's small-time criminals.

One of Japan's highest ranking foreign sumo wrestlers has been arrested on suspicion of marijuana possession, Japanese authorities said Monday in the ancient sport's first major drug scandal.

Nils Olav already has medals for good conduct and long service -- he made honorary colonel-in-chief of the elite Norwegian King's Guard in 2005, and on Friday he was knighted

Reuters - About 60 newly hatched sea turtles lost their way during their ritual passage to the sea and marched into an Italian restaurant instead, a conservation worker said on Monday.

Reuters - A grandfather in his 60s made his comeback as Britain's only matador at a bullfight in Spain on Sunday, less than a year after a quadruple heart bypass and a knee replacement.

There's a reason the saying 'never work with children or animals' was coined, as a terrified TV weatherman found out.

A Kansas burglar apparently likes to be clean -- but isn't so good about clean getaways.

Life can get a little lonely for bachelors in the Australian Outback mining town of Mount Isa. So the mayor has offered up a solution: recruit ugly women.