AP - To head off that old question: The chickens had no intention of crossing the road. Instead, they came crashing off a trailer, in crates, leaving feathers and carcasses on a mile-long stretch of Interstate 5. Oregon State Police said about 20 crates bound for Southern California fell near an exit at Eugene.

Clothing and other items belonging to late French President Francois Mitterrand raise $220,000 at a charity auction.

Determined man didn't let a snowstorm stop him from reaching the liquor store on a lawn mower

No special favors for folks in high places when it comes to airport security

Charleston Mayor Danny Jones had a problem as he tried to get through the security gate at a California airport: He had misplaced his driver's license, and the expired one in his wallet wouldn't do.

A man was charged with drunken driving after going through two bottles of wine, cutting through a snowstorm on his lawn mower and riding down the center of the street to reach a liquor store, authorities said.

Chameleons evolved the ability to flash bright colours to show off, rather than blend in, scientists say.

More than a dozen phone boxes in the Lothians have not been used in a year, it has emerged.

Reuters - From the outside it's an ordinary, red-brick house in a terraced row, not unlike tens of thousands of others scattered across Britain.

Reuters - Red tape is preventing a Polish man from returning from the dead.

Reuters - A New York state employee who had access to government-owned archives has been arrested on suspicion of stealing hundreds of historic documents, many of which he sold on eBay, authorities said on Monday.

A suspected thief in South Africa who impaled his feet on a fence will appear in court once he can walk, police say.

A ceremonial wig that once belonged to a Lancashire town clerk has been sent back from the US to its rightful home.

Reuters - German nudists will be able to start their holidays early by stripping off on the plane if they take up a new offer from an eastern German travel firm.

Reuters - Serie A side Palermo are looking to have Saturday's 1-0 defeat to AS Roma overturned or the match replayed due to the actions of a ball boy.

LONDON - Forty years after feminists threatened to burn their bras, British women have won another...

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BATH, Commuters who use Britains First Great Western railway line staged a "strike" Monday to prot...

BLANDFORD, A 15-year-old student was suspended from a Blandford, England, school after drinking a c...