The UK's oldest emigrant waves goodbye to his former home as he sets sail for New Zealand - aged 102.

American linguists say "subprime", which emerged from banking speak in 2007, is word of the year.

A woman tried to pass off a marker hidden in her pocket as a gun in an unsuccessful robbery of a Cumberland County convenience store. The clerk noticed the woman's suspicious behavior and wrote down her license plate number before she approached the counter.

Hundreds of hardy swimmers braved the 42-degree Atlantic Ocean on Tuesday for a traditional New Year's Day dip. "It was a fantastic day," said Louis Scarcella, president of the Coney Island Polar Bears Club.

When a burglar broke into a Medford pharmacy this week, looking to snatch some drug, he was foiled by fog. The dense fog, a new technology offered by alarm companies, made it impossible for the robber to find the sought-after narcotics.

A man who passed himself off as a member of a federal terrorism task force hoping to propose to his fiancee before heading to Iraq conned a ritzy jewelry store into accepting a bogus $16,000 check for a diamond ring, a newspaper reported.

It was also her birthday, according to her family, who cite a family Bible as evidence of her birth date.

The riddle of who sent a message in a bottle that crossed the Atlantic from the US to Cornwall is solved.

AP - Police said they arrested a man who acknowledged digging holes on a park bike trail as payback for nearly being run down by a cyclist.

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A new Ontario law that has targeted youthful speedsters and aggressive drivers has bagged a surprise suspect an 85-year-old ...

Border agents pulled four live birds from the pockets of a pigeon collector and a traveling companion trying to enter the United States from Canada.

AP - An 85-year-old motorist lost his license and his Oldsmobile for a week and likely faces a hefty fine after becoming the oldest person snagged to date by a new Ontario law aimed at cracking down on street racers, even though he was just speeding.

AP - The chairman of the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners visited a 114-year-old woman who registered to vote on Thursday. It was also her birthday, according to her family, who cite a family Bible as evidence of her birth date.

AP - A handkerchief-wearing thief had a videotaped message for his victim: pay a $3,000 ransom, and you can get your video games back. There was just one problem. The burglar forgot to include any instructions for dropping off the cash.

AP - An Ohio University student thought she had a plan for rescuing her dog from an icy pond but then got the two of them stranded in a canoe.

AP - A man has been charged with sneaking into a toddler's bedroom and stealing $20 from a piggy bank while the 2-year-old girl slept. Authorities say DNA evidence linked Ryan A. Mueller, 30, of Sheboygan Falls to the crime that occurred Aug. 10 in Wilson.

AP - A man who was stopped for speeding nearly evaded state troopers by burrowing into soft ground along Highway 169 and covering himself with dirt and leaves.

A New York window cleaner who survived a 500ft (150m) fall is making a "miracle recovery", doctors say.

The names of three banks and the word "stocks" beat "sex" to become four of the most Googled words in China last year. While the rest of the world uses Google to oogle scantily clad women Chinese people are cheating by secretly working.