Matt Stonie shocked the competitive eating world Saturday by upsetting Joey "Jaws" Chestnut at the Fourth of July hot dog eating contest at Nathan's Famous in Coney Island, breaking...

An Austrian brothel is offering a summer special that competitors will find hard to match — free sex. Its owner says it's his way of protesting a tax squeeze. "Effective immediately: Free...

A woman was jailed after her 'loud sex noises' woke neighbours and breached her anti-social behaviour order.         Gemma Wale was given a two-week prison...

Her electronic waste is someone else's treasure. A recycling center in the Silicon Valley is looking for a woman who dropped off an old Apple computer that turned out to be a collectible item...

A Russian-born man whose first name is God has settled a lawsuit with a credit reporting agency that had refused to recognize his name as legitimate. Under the agreement reached in Brooklyn...

A paternity case involving a set of twins had a surprise ending worthy of a daytime TV talk show: The girls have different dads. A judge ruled Monday in a paternity case that the man from whom...

An heir to an Italian couple discovered one billion Italian lira in a house in Malta, but they have ended up with nothing because the currency is no longer in use and cannot be converted into euros,...

A Chinese construction company is claiming to be the world's fastest builder after erecting a 57-storey skyscraper in 19 working days in central China. The Broad Sustainable Building Co. put up...

American teenager Collin Burns who has completed a cube in just 5.25 seconds, smashing the world record.   The US national 'speedcubing' champion was at an official Rubik's Cube...

An Israeli ultra-Orthodox Jewish news website has cut Kim Kardashian — one of the world's most photographed women — from a photo taken of her in Jerusalem this week. The original...