Vienna's transport authority says a city bus driver checking a bag left behind by a passenger had the surprise of his life — €390,000, or over $500,000, in neatly stacked 500-euro...

An Egyptian granite sculpture of a sphinx that risked ending up on the black market for antiquities is destined instead for a Rome museum.    Italian Tax Police Maj. Massimo Rossi says the...

Spectators who came to watch horses at a western Pennsylvania racetrack got a surprise this week when three deer got onto the course first and beat the horses to racing.    According to...

A shaggy brown ram successfully dodged police, his handlers and a few cars while trotting through downtown Des Moines after escaping from his trailer.    But the ram's freedom only...

Get your garlic, crosses and stakes ready: a bloodsucking vampire is on the loose.    Or so say villagers in the tiny western Serbian hamlet of Zarozje, nestled between lush green mountain...

A postcard mailed nearly 70 years ago has finally arrived at the former upstate New York home of the couple who sent it.   The postcard was sent July 4, 1943, from Rockford, Illinois, to...

An early seasonal delivery went badly wrong in Austria when a truck was involved in a crash and dumped 14 tons of Christmas trees in a resident's garden.   Police in Vorarlberg state, at...

A hatch on a Swedish church tower inadvertently left open for some three decades resulted in 2 tons of pigeon droppings amassing in the tower.   The church's property manager says the...

The demand of dozens of citizens has been denied in the Ecuadorean city of Guayaquil: There will be no jackass running for the legislature.   At least 40 people paraded their candidate...

Forget texting while driving. German police say they nabbed a driver who had wired his Ford station wagon with an entire mobile office.   Saarland state police said Friday the 35-year-old...