Was it the fish?   An estimated 230 University of Amsterdam professors or their spouses got violently ill last week after the school's annual faculty party. Spokesman...

A Japanese official says a woman in his town near Tokyo who became world's oldest living female just last month has died at 115.    Koto Okubo died Saturday at a nursing home in...

A passenger has given birth aboard a plane flying to Armenia and named her daughter after one of the flight attendants who helped with the delivery.     The birth of the healthy baby...

A "Death Star" won't be a part of the U.S. military's arsenal any time soon.   More than 34,000 people have signed an online petition calling on the Obama administration to...

  A 3-year-old Australian boy was lucky to escape uninjured after a collection of eggs he found in his yard hatched into a slithering tangle of deadly snakes. Reptile specialist Trish...

It's a real life Mr. Toad's Wild Ride.   Animal rescue officials in South Africa say they found a toad from China hidden inside a porcelain candlestick.   The Star...

Taking a leaf out of a Dr. Seuss story, the Central Asian nation of Uzbekistan is reportedly stealing Christmas by keeping the local version of Santa Claus off the airwaves.    Independent...

Just as the first storms of winter roll in, Dutchman Johan Huibers has finished his 20-year quest to build a full-scale, functioning model of Noah's Ark — an undertaking of, well, biblical...

"Men in Black" agents K and J may be about to recruit a new Russian assistant: Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.    Medvedev has spoken about top secret files on aliens that may...

It's the prize no author wants to win.   Award-winning novelist Nancy Huston won Britain's Bad Sex in Fiction award Tuesday for her novel "Infrared," whose tale of a...