VIRGINIA BEACH -- Animal Control officers found more than 100 animals living in "deplorable conditions" in a Virginia Beach home on Tuesday, and upon further investigation they discovered almost 100 dead animals in freezers at the home.

As post offices reopen in northern Ivory Coast, workers have the task of sorting out five years of letters blocked by the conflict there.

Diplomatic relations between Sweden and China are said to be threatened by a row over dance performances.

AP - A high school wrestling coach accused of biting a wrestler in the leg has agreed to resign rather than face possible criminal charges, police said.

Britain's oldest newlyweds are hitting the open road for a belated honeymoon.

A town petition making President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney subject to arrest for crimes against the Constitution has triggered a barrage of criticism from people who say residents are "wackjobs" and "nuts."

The city that popularized the fast food drive-thru has a new innovation: 24-hour medical marijuana vending machines.

A golf course in tropical Australia has a new water hazard: a crocodile that took up residence in a lake at the 14th hole.

An Australian retiree won a $1.8 million lottery prize, then lost it, and then won it again Wednesday through a court ruling.

Sign language interpreters in Thailand have run afoul of some ruling party supporters by holding their noses to refer to the new prime minister.

Reuters - With beers in hand, hundreds of former patrons Tuesday protested the closing of Mexico's oldest cantina, where Cuban President Fidel Castro, revolutionary Che Guevara and Mexican leaders all once drank.

Reuters - Rather than file tax returns on an estimated $38 million in income, actor Wesley Snipes flooded the U.S. tax agency with correspondence that his lawyer admitted on Tuesday was sometimes "kooky, crazy and loony."

The first flat-pack home designed for people on low income is unveiled on Tyneside.

A new invention in Los Angeles has gotten the attention of federal drug agents. They'll be investigating medical marijuana vending machines.

Indian brokers at the Bombay Stock Exchange are calling on the authorities to bring in religious experts to change the direction of a bronze bull statue.

AP - A gang of Swedish criminals was seconds away from completing a digital bank heist when an alert employee literally pulled the plug on their brazen scam, investigators said Wednesday.

Researchers using high-speed video say a species of hummingbird "chirps" by using its tail feathers, not its throat.

A playground designed specifically for pensioners opens in a park in north Manchester.

Reuters - A drunk broke off his rendition of a Charles Aznavour song to ask rush-hour Paris commuters for 50,000 euros (37,109 pounds) on Wednesday, inspired by the scale of the trading scandal at French bank Societe Generale.

Reuters - As unusually cold weather blankets much of central and southern China in snow and closes roads, one student had a bright idea about how to get home for the Lunar New Year holiday -- he would ski.