Meet Hailey Jo Hauer and Xander Jace Riniker, both born at 8:08 a.m. on 8/8/08, weighing 8 pounds, 8 ounces, in neighboring states.

Xander, born at St. Luke's Hospital in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is the eighth grandchild for his mother's parents. And ...

Red tape is preventing a Polish man from returning from the dead. Piotr Kucy, 38 and from the city of Polkowice in southwest Poland, was wrongly identified by authorities last August as a drowned man, only to show up a few days after his own funeral. ...

Police in the Lithuanian city of Klaipeda were baffled to discover that a woman arrested for shoplifting last weekend had been registered as dead a month earlier.

The woman's parents had mistakenly identified a body found in a forest as that of thei...

A 66-year-old Austrian woman lived for almost a year with the corpse of her 85-year-old partner, APA news agency said Wednesday.

Police found the remains of the man in the couple's small vacation cottage in the eastern village of St Andrae am Zickse...

A pair of twins who were adopted by separate families as babies got married without knowing they were brother and sister, a peer told the House of Lords.

A court annulled the British couple's union after they discovered their true relationship, Lord...

The honeymoons are over for a 26-year-old woman who authorities say has at least 10 husbands.

Eunice Lopez has been charged with bigamy, accused of marrying 10 men between 2002 and 2006 without divorcing any of them, federal immigration authoriti...

A retired Scottish school teacher was recovering on Monday after spending nearly four days trapped inside a men's toilet with no food or mobile phone.

David Leggat was locked inside the bathroom at a lawn bowling club near the Scottish city of Ab...

A man who had been declared dead after a canoeing accident but in fact survived hid in his home for three years before his arrest this week, his wife told British newspapers Saturday.

Anne Darwin described how her husband, John, had avoided discover...

Surgeons have removed a massive 4.5kg hairball from the stomach of a teenager in the United States.

The 18-year-old went to her doctor after complaining of stomach pains and vomiting.

Doctors carried out a scan and were amazed to find the h...

The body of a 76-year-old woman found dead in her Vienna flat was left there for nine days because a doctor who registered the death forgot to notify a removal service, officials said on Tuesday.

The oversight was noticed when neighbours of the d...

A Siberian woman who gave birth to her 12th child -- doing more than her fair share to stem Russia's population decline -- was stunned to find that little Nadia weighed in at a massive 7.75 kg (17.1 lb).

Nadia was delivered by caesarean section i...

How lucky can you get? Adeline and Eugene Angelo won $5 million Thursday after buying the winning ticket in last week's New York Lotto. In 1996, they won $2.5 million after splitting a $10 million jackpot with three other people. Eugene Angelo, 81, ...

In one of history's more absurd acts of totalitarianism, China has banned Buddhist monks in Tibet from reincarnating without government permission. According to a statement issued by the State Administration for Religious Affairs, the law, which goes into...

Long distance calls take on a new meaning as Finland hosts the world mobile phone throwing championships. This year's winner of the international contest scooped gold with a throw of nearly 90 metres, just short of the world record but the contest also...

A Northern Ireland man bit his girlfriend's pet snake in half during a fight and remarked that it "tasted lovely," lawyers testified Friday. Shane Cooke, a 33-year-old bricklayer, was arraigned in Belfast High Court on charges of assaulting his girlfri...

A man is recovering after his ex-wife set fire to his penis in a fit of frustration. She lost her temper as he sat watching TV - naked and sipping vodka. It is not clear if the man will make a full recovery. A Moscow policewoman said: "It's diffi...

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has changed his country's name, redesigned its flag and rejigged its coat of arms in his drive for a socialist state. Now the leftist reformer, highly popular for redistributing oil income, is seeking to move the countr...

A German has handed in a package containing part of a Pharaonic carving to Egypt's embassy in Berlin, with a note saying his stepfather had suffered a "curse of the Pharaohs" for stealing it, Egypt said Wednesday. The note said the man felt obliged to ...

Dropping something may have saved Joy Horton's life. The 73-year-old woman was preparing some food in her western New York home on Monday morning when she dropped a spoon on the floor of her kitchen. When she bent down, her house exploded. The explosio...

Michael Francis Wiley just wants to drive. He's already done time for habitually driving without a license — not to mention without arms and one leg. Today, a judge in New Port Richey, Fla., sentenced 40-year-old Wiley to five years in prison and 15 ye...

For 55 years, Margret Wegner carried around a pencil — in her head. Finally, surgeons in Berlin have removed most of the 3 inches of misery that punctured her cheek and lodged in her brain above the right eye when she fell over while carrying the penc...

It's now legal for children to wed in Arkansas. All it took was one extra "not" in a bill that was supposed to set a minimum age for marriage. The legislation "authorized women 'not pregnant' to obtain parental consent to marry. That would remove fro...

A Russian region known as Ulyanovsk, around 550 miles east of Moscow, has declared September 12 the Day of Conception, which gives couples a half-day off to procreate. Single people will be able to take a half-day off without pay to find a mate. This i...

MSTERDAM (Reuters) - A Dutch scuba diver became the surprise catch of the day for a 13-year-old boy fishing in the Netherlands when his hook got caught in the man's lip. "I heard a sound on my head and immediately I felt a jerk on my lip," Wim van Huff...

DUBAI (Reuters) - A one-legged Emirati father of 78 is lining up his next two wives in a bid to reach his target of 100 children by 2015, Emirates Today reported on Monday. Daad Mohammed Murad Abdul Rahman, 60, has already had 15 brides although he has...

GILLETTE, Wyo. - He rode his mule into town looking for work. No, it wasn't the opening scene of a Western movie. It was what Rod Maday did last week, ending a six-week odyssey from his hometown of Boy River, Minn. "I've done about 1,500 miles and I...

LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Matt Virtue, who works as a consultant at a Washington law firm, says he spends more than $10,000 a year to attend conventions, hotels and clubs where he and his girlfriend can have sex with other partners. "Any other hobby that I...

Sarah Pickin, 23, found the lump of birch bark tar — complete with neolithic tooth prints — on a dig in Finland. Ms Pickin's tutor at the University of Derby, Professor Trevor Brown, said birch bark tar contained phenols, which are antiseptic compounds. '...

Three drinkers toasted success on Saturday evening when they completed a challenge that has taken them five years. Professional poker player Ian Taylor, risk analyst Matt Slade and web designer Ringo Greenwich have been on a mission to have a drink at ...

An unborn baby has become an internet celebrity thanks to social networking site Facebook. Three months before Bubba Waring is due to be born and already the baby has its own Facebook page and 25 friends. The page, set up by proud parents Claire Gil...

ASHLAND, Ky. (AP) — A man accused of being the "Duct Tape Bandit" has gotten into a sticky situation. The man, who had his head wrapped in duct tape to conceal his identity, walked into a liquor store on Friday, Ashland police said. Shamrock Liquors...

BETTMERALP, Switzerland - Hundreds of naked people formed a "living sculpture" on Switzerland's Aletsch glacier Saturday, hoping to raise awareness about climate change. The photo shoot by Spencer Tunick, the New York artist famous for his pictures of ...

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A Dutch priest has been fined 5,000 euros ($6,800) for ringing his church bells too loudly in the morning. The Catholic priest began ringing the bells at just after seven in the morning soon after arriving in Tilburg about six mon...

ORLANDO, Florida (AP) — Police were hoping for a good turnout at their "Kicks for Guns" program to exchange weapons for sneakers, but they weren't expecting a surface-to-air missile launcher. An man exchanged the 4-foot-long launcher for Reebok sneaker...

A Chinese couple tried to name their baby "@," claiming the character used in e-mail addresses echoed their love for the child, an official trying to whip the national language into line said Thursday. The unusual name stands out especially in Chinese,...