Reuters - California resident Nancy Fiddler has put for sale on eBay a mastodon skeleton that takes up most of her garage. The minimum bid -- $115,000 (57,000 pounds).

Reuters - Wanted: 3,200 white mice. Must be female. No more than 18 grams.

A raw turnip was at the root of a bomb scare that last for hours at a Fort Wayne law office.

A mountainside house being auctioned in Tennessee is perfect for anyone tolerant of gawkers and fascinated with outer space: It's built like a flying saucer.

A Pennsylvania man is accused of attempted bank robbery -- and if poor planning were a crime, he might be charged with that, too.

Careful with that coffee! Police say a man placing an order in a suburban New York doughnut shop's drive-through lane didn't have any pants on.

Jessie Vigil isn't a police officer, but the car he drives sure makes him look like one.

Reuters - India's Supreme Court suspended on Friday legal proceedings against Richard Gere, who faced obscenity charges for publicly kissing Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty last year.

Reuters - Lawmakers defiantly chewed coca in Peru's Congress on Thursday while criticizing a U.N. recommendation to criminalize traditional uses of the plant.

For auction: rare flying saucer house on Chattanooga mountain in Tennessee. Buyer needs fascination for outer space, tolerance for gawkers and at least $100,000. The home, an eye-catcher for almost four decades on a road to Signal Mountain, will be sold to the highest bidder Saturday.

AP - Careful with that coffee! Police say a man placing an order in a suburban New York doughnut shop's drive-through lane didn't have any pants on.

Reuters - It is the one moment every man wants to get right -- and which London floor-fitter Lefkos Hajji could hardly have got more wrong.

A mountainside house being auctioned in Tennessee is perfect for anyone tolerant of gawkers and fascinated with outer space: It's built like a flying saucer.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's new campaign against teenage binge drinking in Australia revived questions Friday about his own drunken escapade in a New York strip club.

A demonstration of a chicken manure catapult backfired for a former stuntman.

A new website aims to help mail-order brides get used to their new life.

AP - A mountainside house being auctioned in Tennessee is perfect for anyone tolerant of gawkers and fascinated with outer space: It's built like a flying saucer.

In the case of bear v the beekeeper, the case ended in the beekeeper's favour when a Macedonian court convicted a bear of stealing honey.

Wound-be bank robbers take note - check the bank's closing time first.

Want a house shaped like a flying saucer? It could be yours!