Fantastic fibbers vied at a remote pub in northwestern England on Thursday for the title of world's biggest liar.   Judges were deliberating into the night after two hours of competition...

Police in South Africa say they've arrested a 25-year-old man who swallowed 220 polished diamonds in an attempt to smuggle them out of the country.   Capt. Paul Ramaloko of the South...

Britain's media are in a meltdown and its government is gaffe-prone, so Oxford Dictionaries has chosen an apt Word of the Year: "omnishambles."   Oxford University Press on...

Students from Florida International University in Miami walked on water Thursday for a class assignment.   To do it, they wore aquatic shoes they designed and...

It wasn't voter fraud that delayed the election count in one U.S. town — it was a spider.   Rehoboth Town Clerk Kathleen Conti says one of the Massachusetts town's aging voting...

Archaeologists in France have unearthed a rather hairy fossil — a nearly complete skeleton of a mammoth.    The bones — thought to belong to a creature that roamed the earth...

An elephant in a South Korean zoo is using his trunk to pick up not only food, but also human vocabulary.   An international team of scientists confirmed Friday what the Everland Zoo has...

Police were called to what looked like a woman shot dead in her car but found a Halloween reveler they described as drunk and passed out in a bloody-looking zombie costume.   The news site...

Zac Vawter considers himself a test pilot. After losing his right leg in a motorcycle accident, the 31-year-old software engineer signed up to become a research subject, helping to test a trailblazing...

Animal activists want a California roadside memorial sign to honor fish killed during a container truck crash.   People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals volunteer Dina Kourda told...