Naked time got a little too public for a former Georgia mayor

A Wisconsin teenager using a classic excuse for evading schoolwork missed a class trip to Peru despite his tale being true: The dog ate his passport.

A woman accused of dipping into her ex-husband's bank account without permission blames her dog.

Reuters - Spanish police have arrested a man whom they suspect hired a contract killer to murder his boss in a desperate bid to avoid being laid off, newspaper El Pais reported on Tuesday.

Reuters - A Sri Lankan court threatened a mosquito repellent factory manager with six months in jail for failing to destroy mosquito breeding areas on company premises to stop the spread of dengue fever, an official said Tuesday.

A woman accused of dipping into her ex-husband's bank account without permission blames her dog

Reuters - Slovakia's president was evacuated from his official plane because of a telephone warning shortly before it was due to take off on Monday.

Reuters - What do Johnny Depp, Garfield, Paris Hilton and roast pork have in common? In China, the answer is that a new government-mandated Internet filter rates some pictures of all four of them as bad for your moral health.

Two London men will attempt to row the Atlantic naked later this year, to raise money for charity.

Man is so angry at a mix-up at McDonalds that he repeatedly calls 911 - only to end up being arrested himself.

A northern Illinois community may bring back what for many people remains an enduring memory of childhood: The ice cream truck.

A 55-year-old writer from Federal Way, Wash., has won this year's Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest for bad opening novel sentences, officials say.

An external audit of the Royal Canadian Mint (RCM) has failed to find millions of dollars' worth of "missing" gold.

Reuters - Spanish police have arrested a man whom they suspect hired a contract killer to murder his boss in a desperate bid to avoid being laid off, newspaper El Pais reported on Tuesday.

Reuters - A Sri Lankan court threatened a mosquito repellent factory manager with six months in jail for failing to destroy mosquito breeding areas on company premises to stop the spread of dengue fever, an official said Tuesday.

A robot jaw, designed to mimic the action of the human mouth, has been developed by a team of scientists at Bristol University.

In a bid to make the police's work easier, a burglar accidentally takes a picture of himself with his victim's mobile phone.

Australian authorities warn the public to stay away from a rare white humpback whale named Migaloo that has appeared off the east coast.

Councillors in Glasgow lift an unofficial 30-year-old ban on the classic Monty Python film The Life of Brian.

Reuters - Having sex every day improves the quality of men's sperm and is recommended for couples trying to conceive, according to new research.