With the greatest of ease, a heavy-duty helicopter plucked a mustang named Colorado off a western Arizona river sandbar Tuesday morning, reuniting him with his owner.

Police in Washington state say they nabbed a woman with a 'treasure chest' who used her undergarment in a forgery scheme.

Tiny tourist Manuka is as happy as a pig in... well, the city, as she enjoys her first trip to London.

France's rail operator mistakenly puts a statement on its website saying more than 100 people had died in a train explosion.

Italian police use social networking site Facebook to track and trap one of the country's most-wanted mafia fugitives.

A dog has recovered after needing emergency surgery - because it had swallowed a whole toy football.

It looks like 1.83ft-high Khagendra Thapa Magar from Nepal will grab the crown of world's shortest man, but according to Wikipedia, a man from Manila called Ronjay Eduvas also measures the same height.

In tribute to the sad death of the world's shortest man, He Pingping, we take a long at his biggest moments, from meeting two genuine giants to hanging out with the woman with the world's longest legs.

A Russian couple who decided to have sex in their car, parked in a small garage, died of carbon monoxide poisoning after they left the engine running, according to reports.

In a historic meeting in Inner Mongolia, 7 ft 9in Bao Xishun shakes hands with 2 ft 4in He Pingping. That's the long and the short of it.

A distracted driver was a television news crew on the side of the road and didn't notice the giant pile of rocks.

France's railway operator says an "internal error" caused it to post a false statement on its Web site saying a train explosion had killed 102 people. The announcement on SNCF's home page described an "explosion of unknown origin" on train number 1234 near...

What happened to a Chattanooga police officer's car was certainly under the radar. A city police spokeswoman said Sunday that Officer Clayton Holmes had been checking traffic speeds with radar and stopped to fill out a report when he felt his car shaking. He found a bulldog chewing on the tires. After the dog attacked two passing cars and a ...

Iowa City police arrested a woman who allegedly attacked her sister with the lid of a toilet tank. Nitasha Johnson, of Iowa City, was arrested early Sunday and was charged with domestic abuse assault causing injury and interference with official acts. According to police, Johnson removed the lid and hit her sister during a fight. Authorities said the sister suffered ...

The most frequently stolen street sign in Green Bay isn't Lombardi Avenue, Reggie White Way or Brett Favre Pass. The distinction goes to a short street on the city's southwest side. Its name brings to mind the helmet-style haircut of the 1980s -- the cut perhaps best personified by country music singer Billy Ray Cyrus.

Maple syrup producers are under fire for tapping maple trees in Central Massachusetts cemeteries. The Worcester Telegram reports Monday that at least two cemeteries in Lancaster and one in Petersham have sap buckets on trees that stand along side rows of tombstones. Athol Public Works Director Douglas Walsh said a recent investigation of tapped trees in Chestnut Hill Road Cemetery ...

Alaska State Troopers needed just one traffic stop to make two arrests for drunken driving. Troopers said a highway patrol officer arrested a 42-year-old man for drunken driving after stopping him for speeding on Sunday. A short time later, a 29-year-old man arrived to take custody of the car. The officer determined he had driven to the scene while drunk.