AP - Three zebras from Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus briefly escaped from their downtown venue, but were quickly corralled by their trainer and two handlers.

AP - Instead of a wedding ring, one Scottsbluff bride found herself in handcuffs. Scotts Bluff County deputies arrested 31-year-old Dianne Carnes on Tuesday afternoon, just after her courthouse wedding was to have started.

A row is reported over an alleged lack of toilet facilities at the venue for Nato's summit in Romania next month.

Reuters - A cash machine became a big hit this week after it started paying out twice as much money as it should.

Reuters - Sometimes it pays to have your own wheels.

Things to do while driving, a sad photo, and an excellent piece of hacking history.

Japan has created an unusual government post to promote animation, and named a cartoon robot cat

Lloyd's of London is insuring the nose of winemaker Ilja Gort for $8 million

Everything people put on their Facebook entries is not always true

A man who pretended to be a CEO complaining about his fast-food order in a taco scam is headed for jail

Reuters - Vienna's leading funeral company, steeped in tradition, is moving with the times: the bereaved can have their loved one back in a cremation urn in the shape of a football.

The world's super-rich are shelling out big bucks for the latest limited-edition deluxe offering: Champagne that costs $6,300 a bottle. Or, $79,000 for a case of 12.

Reuters - A shoplifter looking to make a quick getaway from a Dutch supermarket after stealing a packet of meat left police a crucial piece of evidence -- his 12-year-old son.

Reuters - Canada will probe how blueprints for the new headquarters of an elite military counter-terrorism unit ended up in a pile of garbage, Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day said Thursday.

Reuters - Take a second look at that signed Picasso print you bought on eBay.

Reuters - Grinning Chinese peasants, urinating men, hamburgers and fried chicken -- with Taiwan's presidential election Saturday, both candidates are blanketing newspapers with increasingly creative, even odd, adverts.

Reuters - A growing number of older Britons are indulging in risky holiday behaviour, the Foreign Office warned on Friday.

The Great Illinois Corn Flake disappeared from eBay for a while, but fear not, lovers of state-shaped cereal - it's still available. According to Melissa McIntire, one of the Chesapeake sisters selling the item, the auction site pulled their flake Tuesday because it violated a food policy.

The Doctor would feel right at home in a tiny commercial building just on the market - called Tardis House.

By Mike Holtzclaw, Daily Press, Newport News, Va. Mar. 20--The auction is decidedly flaky, but the piece of cereal could be described only as stately.