The head of the Indonesian Football Association's disciplinary committee has publicly apologized for an own goal fiasco in a playoff match involving PSS Sleman and PSIS Semarang, saying both clubs...

Officials say a man who cheated the hangman at the gallows has been freed after 19 years on death row in Nigeria. Thankgod Ebhos, 54, was dragged to the gallows and watched four fellow death-row...

Queen Elizabeth II has sent her first tweet - and she's signed it "Elizabeth R." The 88-year-old monarch tried her hand at Twitter as she opened a new gallery in central London's Science Museum...

A video of a pair of dueling, dancing American priests studying in Rome has gone viral, following in the footsteps of a now-famous Italian nun whose Alicia Keyes-esque voice won her a singing contest...

An Irish cinema may have just bought the world's most expensive hot dog for an unfairly fired worker. Ireland's employment appeals court on Thursday ordered Dublin's Cineworld to pay Carl Meade...

Macedonia may have found its ultimate gold digger. Police in the tiny Balkan country say a 52-year-old guard at an Orthodox Christian cemetery was detained after alleged opening graves to prize...

A fraudster who pretended to be quadriplegic and sometimes comatose for two years to avoid prosecution has been convicted after police caught him on camera driving and strolling around...

A ministry official is proposing that the temperature in restaurants selling beer in Vietnam should not exceed 30 degrees Celsius (86 Fahrenheit), a rule that will be hard to enforce considering...

  An apparently errant tweet by the Taliban's spokesman in Afghanistan gave his location as being in neighboring Pakistan. On Friday, a tweet by Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid...

Legend has it that Celtic warriors once charged into battle naked. Things aren't that bad in the modern Irish army, but its union chief says soldiers must wage a daily battle for uniforms. Mark...