Reuters - It is billed as the best pop culture collection ever assembled -- ranging from the gun used to kill the assassin of President John F. Kennedy to the Wicked Witch of the West's hat from "The Wizard of Oz."

Even giving away something for free can turn into a hassle in New York

What happened to faking a coug?

Reuters - The body of the mystic monk Padre Pio, one of the Roman Catholic world's most revered saints who died 40 years ago, has been exhumed to be prepared for display to his many devotees.

Reuters - From the "No Garbage" party, to the "Don't row against the tide" party, to "Dr. Cirillo's party of existentialist impotents," there will be something for everyone in Italy's general election in April.

Reuters - Eat a whale and save the planet, a Norwegian pro-whaling lobby said on Monday of a study showing that harpooning the giant mammals is less damaging to the climate than farming livestock.

A working plumber plans to run the London Marathon at the grand old age of 101.

An Iranian court orders a man to give his wife the 124,000 roses promised in her dowry.

Even giving away something for free can turn into a hassle in New York. A video-sharing Web site set out to observe Leap Day by handing out prizes worth up to $29 on Feb. 29 outside Union Square Park.

After surviving a tornado, Charlie Brown "smells like an old, scorched wool blanket."

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A builder at a hospital has been sacked after he was caught pleasuring himself with a vacuum cleaner in the canteen.

The world's tallest snowman, which is actually a snowwoman, is being unveiled in the western Maine town of Bethel.

You know how it goes: you're climbing over a fence, you slip, the police find you impaled by your groin on metal spikes...

A British chef who reportedly invented his knighthood has been dropped by his US TV employers.

You really don't want to go into work. Do you a) fake a cold, or b) get your friend to shoot you in the shoulder?

Instead of marble or bronze, a talented rat called Tony Blair (really) creates sculptures using discarded food and electric cable.

A cat called Charlie Brown is down to seven lives, after an uncomfortably close encounter with a bonfire.

A tramps sales of the Big Issue have gone through the roof since a customer set up a page for him on Facebook.

A "zero-emission" sports car with a top speed of nearly 100mph is set to be unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show.