Reuters - Hundreds of dogs, many dressed as babies or clowns, were taken to celebrate mass in this Nicaraguan town on Sunday, an annual ritual where the owners pray for their pets to be cured or avoid falling ill.

Reuters - A footballing priest has been sent off in a church tournament for throwing his shirt at the referee, Italian media reported on Sunday.

A thrift store worker in Southern California says she didn't think twice about returning $30,000 she found in donated clothing.

An artist uses discarded freesheets collected from across London to make a house.

For guys who park in front of the TV during March Madness, the Oregon Urology Institute has a suggestion: Why not use that time ...

Here's a thought -- why not get a vasectomy during March Madness

Reuters - German Chancellor Angela Merkel put President Vladimir Putin on the spot on Saturday, asking if the former KGB spy had cooked breakfast for his wife Lyudmila to celebrate International Women's Day.

Reuters - A prankster pretending to be Oscar-winning American actor Nicolas Cage fooled Real Madrid into thinking he was the real thing and enjoyed red carpet treatment at this week's Champions League match against AS Roma.

Reuters - U.S. President George W. Bush donned a cowboy hat and sang an early goodbye to Washington on Saturday night with a performance that lampooned White House journalists and Vice President Dick Cheney among others.

Reuters - Peter Rutherford is an avid amateur golfer working on Reuters' Asia Sports desk in Singapore and with Reuters for nearly five years. In the following story, he describes what it was like to be completely outplayed by one of the world's top women golfers.

AP - For guys who park in front of the TV during college basketball's March Madness, the Oregon Urology Institute has a suggestion: Why not use that time to recover from a vasectomy?

A 19-year-old Pasco man is in jail after a police dog sniffed him out of a dog house. When a man called police early Tuesday to report that his car had been stolen, officers around the city began searching for it. They spotted it once and tried to stop the car, but the driver accelerated and tried to get away.

Something strange going on in your neighborhood? You may want to give Brooklyn Ghost Investigations a call. For $20 an hour, the group of self-proclaimed paranormal investigators offers to go to your house to help chase away whatever goes bump in the night.

A 19-year-old Pasco man is in jail after a police dog sniffed him out of a dog house. When a man called police early Tuesday to report that his car had been stolen, officers around the city began searching for it. They spotted it once and tried to stop the car, but the driver accelerated and tried to get away.

When Robert Kadera's teenage son was running late for a tennis date near their northern Illinois home, Kadera came up with a novel way to avoid 45 minutes' worth of traffic -- fly. There was just one problem -- he had to land, without permission, at a golf course.

Bars in Minnesota are adopting a thespian air after discovering that performers in plays are exempt from a smoking ban.