- Italian candidate tells woman to solve money problems by marrying a millionaire
- Briton who allegedly confessed to cats cleared of murder charge
- Berlusconi comment to hard-up student sparks controversy in Italy
- Careful with that hot coffee; half-naked man places order at restaurant drivethru
- Russia's purr-resident prepares for Kremlin debut
- Tiny Iowa town rescinds bounty on stray cats, opts for catch and release program
- Stop Thief: Restaurant owner beans would-be meat thief with a frozen ham
- Wyoming biologist releases fish in 1983, catches it in river 25 years later
- Millions of bees close California highway after truck flips over
- Singers make progress on 50-hour "Danny Boy" marathon
- NYC businessman sues club, claiming stripper injured him during lap dance
- Environment Canada has early look at next year's winter: not too cold for most
- More falling home prices: Tennessee flying-saucer house sells for just $135K
- Italian prisoner disappears on pope visit: agency
- Sailor takes on Pacific in wave-powered boat
- Drug smuggler caught as swallowed capsules burst
- Mastodon skeleton awaits sale in garage
- New ladies' vodka gives doctors a headache
- World's most expensive champagne woos super-rich
- For sale: French chateau, contact former president
- Man says he will auction his life - house, car, job and friends - online
- Naked man on rampage in Pennsylvania accused of damaging hotel, store
- Buzz for room service...
- Phone company recovers deleted phone message from N.Y. man's late wife
- Goliath the giant lobster avoids boiling pot, finds home in Montreal aquarium
- Lloyd's of London insures Dutch winemaker's sense of smell for $8 million
- Odd couple: Petra the swan now separated from her 'mate,' a swan-shaped boat
- Indian region offers men gun licences if they get sterilised
- Michigan cafe holds 50-hour "Danny Boy" marathon to set a Guinness record
- Man auctions his life
- Enticing elderly to give up driving
- Dollars tough to sell
- Lloyd's insures winemaker's nose for $8 million
- How not to cheat on one's partner: all you need is love
- City OKs: 'Speak English' signs at Philadelphia cheesesteak shop
- Award-winning Brazilian film inspires porn version
- Canadian claims 340,000 dollars for flies in his water
- 79-year-old N.Carolina woman earns diploma after leaving school in 1940s
- Philippines warns 'crucifixion bad for health'
- Taiwan vote all in the stars... or the cards
- Spitzer call girl loses $1 million offer
- No more squatting in Water Cube toilets?
- Truck with "extras" confiscated from gang
- Virginia sisters say eBay cancelled Illinois corn flake auction
- Canadian claims 340,000 dollars for flies in his water
- Estonian escaped prisoner embarrasses police who ignored him
- Japan appoints Doraemon as new diplomat
- Lady Luck smiles on too many in 6-49 draw as 239 2nd-prize tickets cut payout
- Suburban neighbourhood plays host to cattle roundup following highway accident
- Israeli immigrant mathematician solves puzzle that puzzled experts for 38 years
- Toronto police shoot runaway cow after 4-hr rampage
- Robbers nabbed by cops driving getaway taxi
- ATM gives shoppers double-money windfall
- Jail term for Swiss couple that spent someone else's money
- Stressed Singapore hunts for its happiest person
- Fleeing shoplifter forgets son
- Plans for anti-terror unit found in garbage
- Rats at Thai health ministry prompt national anti-rodent campaign
- Australian man arrested for growing marijuana after reporting stolen plants
- SKorean mum held after daughter, 6, pulls off bank job
- Boomerang works in space: Japanese astronaut
- Schwarzenegger removes brother-in-law, Clint Eastwood from California panel
- Thousands stuck with fake art prints
- Bear Stearns staff auction off teddies, T-shirts, memorabilia
- Pole, 79, arrested for catapult anti-car campaign
- Police: Fake basketball coach scamming McDonald's restaurants in Pennsylvania
- Shock jock named king of politically incorrect
- Croatian claims biggest chocolate castle record
- A corn flake shaped like Illinois auctions for $1,350 on EBay
- Oklahoma man who was declared dead says he feels 'pretty good'
- Hoax advertisements cost a man from Oregon huge property losses
- At Japanese Zen temple, even the dog prays
- Japan's baseball stadiums urged to drop octopus, save planet
- China's pandas in new rigorous 'sexercise' programme: report
- 'Rare' tiger snapped in China is circus escapee
- Gophers notch a win in man-rodent battle
- Rice heist sows panic among farmers
- Donkey takes final bow at ballet troupe
- KLM pilot unaware of new airport flies across India: report
- Circus "slave" forced to swim with piranhas
- Obama related to Bush, Churchill: US researchers
- Putin, Medvedev -- what's the difference? Mubarak asks
- Name game: Elizabeth, James top British success poll
- Rattlesnake stowed away in luggage bites Va. high school coach
- Checklist from Apollo 10 space mission fetches $41,825 at auction
- Naked calendar gets results; Sask. government to pave potholed road
- Romania warns against April Fool's pranks at NATO summit
- German swan and her swan-shaped paddleboat to be reunited
- Indiana teen's mysterious $500 tip will mean big night at the prom
- Obama related to Bush, Churchill: US researchers
- Smoking tortoise found in China
- Australian Outback town chooses mayor by drawing name from trash can
- Parachute may yield clues to daredevil US hijacker: report
- Russian farmer sues space agency for falling rocket
- Traffickers on the run after flagging down cops
- Owner fails to back own horse in 33-1 win
- Presenting the Trailways-osaurus?
- U.K. treasury chief being banned from British pubs after beer tax hike
- US sodamaker begs Axl Rose to release new album
- US judge sentences 3 men to learn English or go to jail
- Canadian pair pleads guilty to smuggling endangered fish into U.S.
- Student apologizes after his electronics project sparks a scare in NYC subway
- Winner of Oddest Book Title award goes to self-help book
- Iowa county board gives initial OK for ghost hunters to investigate asylum
- Woman forced to remove nipple ring at US airport
- NZealand court sentences man after wombat rape claim
- US transport agency regrets pierced nipple incident
- Tokio Hotel prank backfires on French town
- Wisconsin cops bust high school party where kids were drinking root beer
- Good morning: One-ton pickup truck comes crashing into motel, waking man on bed
- Legs, pygmies and cheese top British odd book poll
- British teenager to play Tintin on big screen: reports
- Wisconsin city's police department apologizes after pointing the finger at the wrong
- Mexican bull thrown in jail for devouring corn fields, destroying shacks
- Official Web site hacked over porn ban
- Vicar offers stress relief in grave
- Camels line up for Gulf beauty contest
- Russian martial arts king raps TV ad
- Archdiocese says White Plains pastor stole church funds to gamble
- Tattered $20 bills linked to D.B. Cooper skyjacking are going up for auction
- Hamilton fined for speeding
- British papers in French-themed April fools
- No seat airfares part of Australian April Fool's Day larks
- Police: Man robs bank after $173 personal cheque he tries to cash bounces
- Mansfield name change plan 'bizarre' says chairman
- South Korean professor has been convicted for faking Yale degree
- Injured wildlife refugee owner says attack by 2 cheetahs was "not a big deal"
- Thailand kicks off elephant polo tournament
- Octopuses are the kinky creatures of the sea, researchers find
- Computer malfunction wipes out grades at 4 schools in Indiana
- Clinton challenges Obama to presidential bowl-off
- Louisiana police call woman about car; she tries to buy crack from them
- As an April Fools joke, Clinton challenges Obama to a bowl-off
- Stolen croc reemerges in Norway
- PM admits British reserve over Carla kiss
- Sexy lingerie a hit for Malaysia's dead
- April Fool: Lebanon finally gets a president
- April Fool jokes a laughing matter for world's media
- Indonesian runaway back after 10,000-dollar spree: father
- Chilean mayor arrested for interrupting Bond shoot: report
- Smoking bans boost drink-driving accidents: study
- Flanders to ban speaking French on mobiles -- for April Fools Day
- Garden gnome holds up high speed train
- US Army 'war hero' outed as fraud
- Grungy clothes give away burglar who tried playing dead at Spanish funeral parlour
- McCain roasts his host on comedy show
- Australian politician proposes designated day to hunt toxic toads
- As April Fools joke, Hillary Clinton challenges Barack Obama to bowl-off
- Student, 14 arrested after camera rigged to zap others
- U.S. woman may need rabies shots after biting pit bull to save her own dog
- Toddlers can no longer marry in Arkansas; minimum age reinstated
- Police say man jumped on crocodile's back to rescue his wife in Australia
- Michigan fifth-grader finds 27-year-old Smithsonian mistake
- Malaysian man divorces two wives in three minutes: reports
- Hawk swoops from Fenway Park railing, attacks girl on school tour
- Would-be robber panics and flees, but leaves photo identification at bank
- Michigan lottery winner claims part of $136 million jackpot, quits job
- Help wanted: Drinking buddy for lonely dad
- Police say man stole guitar from store in Maine by putting it down his pants
- Too lazy to make your own bed? Create one that makes itself
- New personal hygiene challenge for Everest
- For Bush, French leader is the 'latest incarnation of Elvis'
- Australian man leaps on crocodile, saves wife
- Palau leader refuses Manila security pat down, misses flight
- Nepal bans booze for crucial polls
- Computer game tips West Brom for the FA Cup
- Clinton revives Bosnia embarrassment for laughs
- Fowl play in New York prompts unusual court order protecting a duck
- Handshake 'safer' than kissing, flustered Britons advised
- Towering underwear ad draws complaints in Hong Kong: report
- 2-metre python hitches ride on minibus, snarls traffic in Philippine capital
- New Zealand school to ban birthday cakes: report
- Hawk swoops from Fenway Park railing, attacks girl on school tour
- Safety checks ordered after N.Y. rifle company accidentally ships loaded guns
- Montana band aptly named the Clintons writes love song to Hillary
- Researchers find link between sex and financial gambles in young men's brains
- Austrian chapel for sale on Ebay -- shipping not included
- Swiss ex-fireman jailed for starting 20 fires
- Rat causes short circuit, triggers 3-hour blackout at Stockholm train station
- Waitress from Windsor, Ont., wins $3.5 million in Lotto 6-49 draw
- Man is convicted on drug charge, immediately marries woman in court
- Burglars strike offices of prisoner re-entry program at Michigan prison
- Papa Smurf ousted in race for Dodge County seat in Wisconsin
- Biologist euthanizes well-known Anchorage moose to end its ordeal
- Rural North Dakota man and his wife uncover century-old newspapers
- Deputy responding to intruder report finds turkey inside home
- Gophers causing damage to East Oregon levys and communities worried
- Police say robber left them his name by filling out job application before crime
- New Zealand man charged with assault for hurling hedgehog
- First Korean astronaut to sing in space
- Thai PM slams fortune teller over downfall prediction: reports
- Immigration issue separates 96-year-old Utah man from his Canadian wife
- My Latin good enough for Caesar, boasts Berlusconi
- D'oh! Venezuelan TV channel says 'The Simpsons' not fit for kids
- Dubai crown prince buys camel for record 2.7 mln dlrs
- Security blushes as Aussie dives into governor-general's pool
- Brash burglar nabbed after prison break-in: Malawi police
- Mumbai tries, fails on 'No-Honking Day' to mark World Health Day
- Boys will be boys, even if they're monkeys: study
- Mumbai drivers hoot through 'no-honking day'
- Russian mayor 'urges closure of own town'
- Mission Impossible for SKorean burglar
- Hair salon scalps customers
- Watch the birdy: Cameraman fired for fake pigeon
- Hemingway haunt gives discounts to "poor Americans"
- Duck gets "order of protection" after attack
- Misheard comment leads to evacuation of nuclear power plant in Wisconsin
- Dubai's crown prince shells out almost $3 million for female camel
- Fur flying over dog that disappeared from TV weather reports in Las Vegas
- Baby born with 2 faces in north India, villagers worship her as a goddess
- Canadian late for own funeral after coffin misses flight
- Wisconsin police seek 3 men who made off with semitrailer filled with beer
- Berlusconi says he outstrips Putin, Sarkozy stature: agency
- Surveillance cameras at work are stressful: SKorean court
- Gays in Denmark get own cemetery space
- China's famed Shaolin Temple installs luxury restrooms for tourists, monks
- Whiskey-based Sazerac rejected as Louisiana state tail
- Aussie PM under fire over alleged royal gaffe
- What makes Cuban cigars so great? A beginner endeavours to find out
- Look rain, no hands! Space helmet-like umbrella lets you keep your hands free
- Blue Jays may scrap $2 ticket promotion if unruly fans continue to fight
- Bundesliga set for bum-deal advertising
- Russian Army generals too fat for new uniform
- Even Zimbabwe's fortune-tellers clueless on next president
- Bees swarm Mexican police in reverse sting operation
- CN Tower's glass-floor elevator aims to set new world record
- 2,008 nudists to pack Vienna soccer field for Euro 2008 tournament 'art'
- Neighbours chip in to buy RV for Seattle man facing eviction from tree house
- Frog without lungs discovered in remote part of Indonesia
- Oregon woman charged with drunken driving after arriving at a police office to clean
- 'Sign spinners,' the new sandwich men of US advertising
- Toronto's CN Tower wows visitors with new glass-floor elevator
- Driver in mobile phone row with wife caught doing 200 kmh
- Air Canada jet hit twice by lightning while enroute to Halifax from Toronto
- Dagger used by emperor who built Taj Mahal sells for $3.3 million
- Baby in buggy run over by train in Switzerland, survives almost unscathed
- Naked German seniors star in post-9/11 Verdi opera
- Pair of Japanese mangoes fetches 2,000 dollars: auctioneer
- Swiss village blasts 'French imperialism' for Champagne name ban
- 2,008 nudists to pack Vienna soccer field for Euro 2008 tournament 'art'
- Animal rights group pursues rocker over squirrel death claim
- Long Island man accused of passing phony money for bail; police say he gave bogus $50
- Legally blind 85-year-old Arizona golfer makes hole-in-one
- Man faces jail for smuggling iguanas in fake leg
- Nellie the Elephant, final call for boarding
- Porn star unveils campaign weapon-her bottom
- Man jailed for fake Viagra sales
- Nude Bruni photo sells for $91,000 in auction
- Rash of fake military vehicles on Chinese roads: report
- Russian deputies turn up heat on witches: report