A life-size bronze sculpture by Alberto Giacometti is sold at auction for the world record price of £65,001,250.

A farmer who built a castle behind straw bales without planning permission loses his High Court fight to save it.

On Wednesday, a New Zealand girl accepted an offer to sleep with a stranger after auctioning off her virginity to help pay for college. The 19-year-old sold her virginity to the highest bidder in an online auction on the ineed.co.nz website, which saw over 1,200 bids.

Alaska now has its own version of Groundhog Day.

A California judicial commission has admonished a retired judge for ordering that an attorney who settled a class-action lawsuit be paid in $10 coupons for women's apparel.

An Arizona school principal who penned a sarcastic letter that chided parents for children who were either "too lazy or too stupid" to complete their assignments in class was suspended after the missive was mistakenly sent home.

A San Francisco man claims he was high on a double dose of medical marijuana cookies when he screamed, dropped his pants and attacked crew members on a cross-country flight, forcing its diversion to Pittsburgh, the FBI said Wednesday.

Reuters - A red-faced banker has been caught looking at racy near-nude photographs on his computer, with his actions broadcast live on Australian television.

Reuters - A South African minibus taxi driver five times over the legal blood alcohol limit at breakfast time was arrested on Wednesday for transporting 49 children in a 16-seat vehicle.

Reuters - A Slovenian who saved his three dogs from being put down for attacking humans was himself mauled to death by them, police said Wednesday.

Reuters - A 14-year old New Zealand girl has been praised for fighting off a shark with her boogie board after it had bitten her. The shark bit Lydia Ward on the hip as she was standing in waist-deep water on a beach near the southern New Zealand city of Invercargill on Monday, the Southland Times newspaper reported.

A New Zealand teenager who says she auctioned her virginity online for $32,000 to raise tuition money did not break any laws but it might be risky for her to follow through on the deal, police warned Wednesday. The anonymous 19-year-old student offered her...

A tourist lost in the dark on a frozen sea in northern Germany is rescued after flashes from his camera are spotted on a beach webcam.

Three camels are sold for millions of dollars at a desert auction at a festival near the UAE capital Abu Dhabi.

A man's home is his castle -- but not if the authorities say it has to be destroyed.

A group of killjoy town hall officials in Germany are determined to nip a sledge race in the bud - on the grounds that all the contestants are topless.

The source of four fifths of the internet's bestiality videos may be on the way out, after Dutch lawmakers approved a ban on having sex with animals.

A young leopard bit of more than he could chew when he tried to take on a porcupine - spines and all.

It sounds like an urban legend - a girl with missing genitals who got pregnant after having oral sex and then being stabbed in the stomach ... but it might actually be true.

MOSCOW: This mugging victim had a six inch knife plunged deep into her back and she didnt even feel...