'Slow motion' marathon runner Greg Billingham has finished the London Marathon one week after the event started.

Actor James Doohan, who played the starship Enterprise's chief engineer Scotty on Star Trek, finally made it to space on Saturday (local time) as a rocket with some of his ashes was launched in New Mexico.

The Government of Chile wants Google to fix its earth geographical search program because it places a Chilean village in Argentina.

A leatherback turtle called Billie won the first Great Turtle Race from Costa Rica to the Galapagos Islands, swimming at a leisurely 5 to 6 kilometres per hour, organisers say.

A German phone thief led police right to his front door when they called the stolen mobile to say he had won some free beer and he willingly gave his address.

Contestants in a Saudi beauty pageant this week have all the features you might expect anywhere else in the world but with one crucial difference - the competitors are camels.

New Zealand's biggest coal exporter says endangered snails have disrupted mining operations, costing the company about $20 million in lost production.

An Italian researcher is working on a project that could lead to the development of a real-life 'spider-man' suit.

A large English cheddar cheese has become a star of the Internet, attracting more than 1 million viewers to sit and stare as it slowly ripens.

The ashes of Star Trek star James Doohan will be blasted into space this weekend when a rocket carrying a symbolic portion of the late actor's cremated remains is launched in New Mexico.

British bookmakers have wasted no time slashing the odds on aliens being discovered after astronomers announced that they had discovered an Earth-like planet.

A rare male Malaysian crocodile has changed zoos as wildlife officials hope to spark reptilian romance by finding him a suitable partner.

A pregnant cow being chased by police and firefighters caused more than $41,000 of damage on a three-hour rampage through the German city of Hanover.

British scientists have discovered a material that resembles the fictional glowing green substance kryptonite, which is famous for its ability to rob Superman of his powers.

Nudists say they will be celebrating the Anzac Day value of freedom in a naked cricket match in Byron Bay on the north coast of New South Wales tomorrow.

A Lebanese bank is offering loans to finance plastic surgery to meet growing demand from people seeking to improve their looks.

Competitive text messaging may not have quite gained Olympic status, but the hundreds of mostly teenagers who took part in the US championships in New York could think of little but the $US25,000 prize money.

Scandal hit MTV Russia's movie awards ceremony when a presenter refused to announce the viewer-voted award for best movie after realising which film had won.

Pope Benedict has been given 15,001 pairs of shoes during a visit to Vigevano, the northern city known as Italy's shoe capital.

Reports in India say a teacher has sprinkled cow urine on a school and its pupils in an effort to "purify" his workplace after taking over from a lower-caste principal.