AP - A man identified in a front-page newspaper photo has been sentenced for what he was doing when another photograph — shown on the same front page — was taken.

AP - Yankee fans won't like it, Red Sox fans won't like it and Rudy Giuliani certainly won't like it. When Topps baseball cards hit the stores this week, about one in every 70 packs will include a picture of Giuliani, fist raised in victory, celebrating with the Sox on the field after their World Series win.

AP - Police have arrested a man on suspicion of crashing his car and causing a power outage that disrupted the Super Bowl for thousands of football fans.

Wearing knee-high black socks, Thomas Dold of Germany scampered up 86 breath-sapping flights Tuesday to win the Empire State ...

AP - Two different armed robbers hit a Grand Rapids convenience store in one evening, taking money from the same store clerk on both occasions. Tommy Gutierrez, 31, works at the Shell station on the city's northwest side.

A Florida woman was arrested after she took the time to buckle in her case of beer but left her baby in the back seat without a seatbelt or car seat.

Reuters - After enraging the French president and his bride by using them in an advertisement, budget airline Ryanair is promoting its flights in the Italian press as a way of escaping piles of trash that are choking the city of Naples.

Reuters - Scientists have created human embryos with three parents in a development they hope could lead to effective treatments for a range of serious hereditary diseases within five years.

A 2-year-old British girl on holiday with her family in Cyprus was hospitalized after drinking detergent mixed with orange juice.

AP - Talk about an oversized load: A 4-year-old boy got stuck when he climbed into his family's top-loading washing machine, and firefighters had to use a metal cutter to slice into the appliance to get him out.

Rooster owners in this Southern California city may be about to get their feathers ruffled.

Two men are accused of burning down the birthplace of the woman made famous by the nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb."

A planned children's pancake race is dropped because of health and safety regulations.

A previously unknown sub-species of bird has been found in the southern Nepal, scientists say.

Reuters - San Francisco voters will decide on Tuesday whether to remove the famous Alcatraz Prison visited by thousands of tourists a day and instead create a "global peace centre."

Reuters - Motorists nostalgic for the time they could sit tight while attendants braved windswept garage forecourts to fill their tanks may yet see those heady days return -- compliments of a Dutch robot.

Reuters - A Chinese forestry department has apologised for publishing photographs a farmer said were of a critically endangered South China tiger but which many people believe were faked.

By The Associated Press ALICE, Texas - A small-town mayor accused of secretly keeping her neighbors' dog after telling them the pet died has resigned, and a judge is set to decide custody of the Shih Tzu.

By The Associated Press OAKLAND, Calif. - Like many a lady of a certain age, Tiki feels the cold these days. So workers at the Oakland Zoo are having a custom-fit coat made to keep the giraffe cozy this winter.

Reuters - Japan's double Olympic judo gold medallist Ryoko Tani has hit upon an unusual idea to prepare for this year's Beijing Games -- a neurological kick-start.