- Golf in space, wine cellars in the sky: zany records of 2006
- Computerised bellringing confuses church bells
- NKorea reports halo before Kim's anniversary
- Chinese weather forecasts are top secret
- Americans embrace the art of the re-gift
- Repentant thief returns booty in Germany
- Five cops arrested for ATM heists
- Target stores pull Che Guevara CD case
- Cocaine on 94 percent of Spanish banknotes
- Without snakes, India's charmers play on
- Prizes for prostitute-free New Year
- Giant panda gives birth to twins at zoo in Japan; all in good condition
- Chinese doctors, nurses don combat gear to fight off angry patients
- Thieving Santa collects own gifts in Buenos Aires
- Brown's dying lament: being a no-show for New Year's gig
- Christmas tree candles cause multimillion-dollar damage
- Woman fakes kidnapping to avoid work
- Who knew you could cheat at chess?
- Time may not cure all wounds, but helps hangovers
- Animal loving Britons opt for strange pets
- Pregnant women hope for late arrivals
- 'Max' the mongrel New York's top dog
- Xmas cheers: thief drives off with gifts, dumps granny
- Japanese gadget has plants talking back
- Beards back with a bang in Belfast
- On the Net: A year-end grab bag of website oddities
- Options dwindle for Alberta partiers seeking to avoid drinking and driving
- Squirrels are great gamblers on nature's unpredictable seeding seasons
- For sale on eBay - dream holiday with a stranger
- Man trapped down drain hunting for keys
- Head-banging snakes may predict quakes
- Max has maximum appeal among dog names
- Jewelers see veiled threat
- Healthy thieves? Trailer full of broccoli disappears in Chicago suburb
- Montreal's main kilt seller calls it quits despite booming business
- Free TVs handed out to voters in India, heralding surge of election populism
- Liechtenstein 'grows'
- Swiss bank robber escapes on getaway bike
- German traveller mistakes Sidney, US for Australian city
- Cat saves Australian family from fire
- Latvia SWAT team takes on boar at gas station
- Officials offer bogus prize to nab suspect in 15 false emergency calls
- Carjacker calls police to confess after getting lost, crashing stolen SUV
- Love-struck student puts proposal on exhibit at Florida museum; she says 'yes'
- Greek anarchists snatch baby Jesus
- Baby born aboard Portuguese train gets free rail travel for life
- Father sues after daughter spends four days stuck in lift
- Six gored as water buffalo crashes Cambodia wedding
- A tale of two cities for confused tourist
- Police seize suspected fake Goya painting
- Helpful drunk driver offers aid to police
- Alert tabby saves family from fire
- Thirsty man sells beagle to buy beer
- Turkish butchers sweat at exam ahead of Feast of Sacrifice
- When Santa Claus slips into cash machine...
- British tourism chiefs red-faced over porn weblink
- Woman on her way to buy bread gets stuck in Paris elevator for 3 days
- Camel sacrifice, spray-on condom among 2006 oddities
- Woman swallows spoon in laughing fit
- Driver tries to crash Canadian prime minister's vacation home
- 67-year-old woman gives birth to twins in Spain after in vitro fertilization
- Kibbutz manure prompts royal stink
- Snake handler bitten by 4-metre Burmese python during Florida aquarium show
- Michigan university banishes worn-out words, phrases of 2006
- Massive statue of Ukrainian poet stolen from an Oakville, Ont. park
- Americans predict plenty of gloom and doom in 2007: AP poll
- Paramedic patient steals ambulance, leads Edmonton police on chase
- Drugged patient steals ambulance, leads Edmonton police on chase
- 2 out of 5 bosses are liars: Florida State University survey
- Airline employees spot mysterious craft hovering over O'Hare; FAA skeptical
- Mob burns house of village thug
- Alleged African witches still outcast to camps
- Apology for "topless" New Year's Eve shock
- Animal parts, missile, cause top U.S. traffic headaches
- German jobless cut their hair in protest
- Nigerian city's first twins of 2007 time it perfectly
- Overweight woman stuck in South African cave
- Confusing Obama with Osama? CNN makes an on-air goof and then an apology
- Creepy art increases heart patients' blood pressure: study
- 'Happy Hooker' author Xaviera Hollander marries boyfriend in Amsterdam
- Runner embarks on 'round-the-world jog for children's charity
- Swedish straw goat survives Christmas unharmed, for once
- First woman Beefeater appointed to Tower of London: report
- "Ghost ships" beach on Malaysian coast
- Wild boars bring painful start to year of the pig
- Biggest wolf on record shot dead in Bulgaria
- Passengers in South Korean taxis to face screen test
- You say Osama, we say Obama: US network apologizes over mix-up
- Italian renews driving license on 100th birthday
- British teen lands in Antigua after record-breaking solo sail across Atlantic
- Beefeaters go co-ed; after 500 years, Tower of London getting 1st female warder
- Chicago-area man repeats as couch potato king; almost 40 hours in front of TV
- Rare U.S. nickel fails to attract a cent in bidding at Florida auction
- New York City cabs dressed up as cattle to promote bull riding event
- Report: 30 pandas born in 2006 ups China's total to 217 bred in captivity
- From yap to growl, device dogs intruders
- Female Beefeater: towering milestone for women?
- French court rules pork soup kitchen not racist
- It would be "awesome" if "TomKat" "went missing"
- Prisoner slips out of Norwegian jail after smearing himself with vegetable oil
- Thousands still without luggage after December disruption at London airport
- French court rules pork soup kitchen not racist
- Australian bank issues credit card to cat
- Seoul warns Chinese embassy after breathalyser incident
- US woman jailed over flour-filled condoms settles lawsuit
- Huge wolf killed in Bulgaria fails to make record, says expert
- A penny for your courts...
- Funeral set for Portuguese woman mistakenly declared dead
- Moncton man suing makers of America's Funniest Home Videos over online voting
- A guide to understanding rude Parisians
- Bank issues credit card to cat
- Robot mother helps South Koreans prepare for birth
- Mysterious metallic object crashes through roof of house in New Jersey
- Pa. girl, 12, charged with disorderly conduct for wetting pants in school
- A guide to understanding rude Parisians
- Bank issues credit card to cat
- Authorities drop disorderly conduct against Pa. girl for wetting pants in school
- Police hunt pub urinal thief
- They can't dance, so they'll run instead...
- Adding tax on for taking it off...
- Candidate wants to squash health rumors
- Boy who hanged himself may have mimicked Saddam
- Tuna nets 35,000 dollars in Tokyo's first 2007 auction
- Austrian bride's "no" in jest postpones wedding by 10 weeks
- Bride's ill-advised joke breaks off Austrian civil wedding ceremony
- Taking the pissoir: man walks off with British pub urinal
- Singapore schoolboys take joyride in truck
- Toddler catchers, 'Subway Superman' cap week of heroics in New York
- 2 New York City men save toddler from 4-storey fall from fire escape
- Police hunt pub urinal thief
- Adding tax on for taking it off...
- NYC, Trump, Disney reward "Subway Superman"
- U.S. army says it mistakenly urged dead officers to return to active service
- Wacky warning contest winner: Do not put people in washing machine
- Centerfold accused of running brothel in gated suburban Atlanta neighbourhood
- Giant Alaska snowman has neighbours fuming
- 'World's oldest mother' leaves hospital with twins
- Fugitive falls into hands of police; crashes through ceiling from attic refuge
- Woman, son arrested in theft of snake; returned to pet store for snake book
- Australian kayak duo aim to paddle from Sydney to Auckland
- California 'Ratman,' cited for having more than 1,300 rodents, faces new rap
- Nigerian 107-year old pastor weds 30-year old with strength from God
- Old folks university proposed for Hong Kong
- Stinking divorce for Egyptian woman
- US dialect society chooses "Plutoed" as 2006 word of the year
- Man returns book he checked out as 9th-grader in 1960, pays US$171 in late fees
- Father says employee dressed as 'Tigger' hit his son at Disney park in Florida
- Tnx u won't do, say etiquette experts
- Farm worker attacked by herd of pigs
- Old Spice goes racy, retro to woo young men
- Prisoner probably ate parts of cellmate
- Woman settles case over flour-filled condoms
- Thailand blocks access to U.S.-based porn website that uses images of Buddha
- One Bangkok municipal office introduces daily nap time for civil servants
- Pantless burglar bolts from scene after dust-up with N.H. homeowner
- Tnx u won't do, say etiquette experts
- Police: eBay seller arrested after NY man finds his stolen GPS device for sale on eBa
- Milk destroys health benefits of tea, says study
- British intelligence offers e-mail alerts on terror threat
- Welshman staples hand to table emulating 'Jackass' TV stunts
- Woman settles case over flour-filled condoms
- British man cautioned for stealing urinal
- Scorpions on a plane
- Zoo puts humans on display
- State weighs cutting "idiot" from constitution
- Phone companies in Brazil blocking YouTube
- Texas-based pizza chain accepts Mexican pesos
- Indian cops give red roses to motorcycle riders without helmets
- Tiny 'country' of Sealand, located in North Sea off England, is for sale
- It's a bird, a plane, no ... it's a giant banana flying over Texas
- Urinal thief comes clean
- Scorpions on a plane
- New York's neighbours share smell, deny blame
- Britney Spears, Paris Hilton worst-dressed celebs: fashion critic
- Urinal thief comes clean
- Humans go on display in Australian zoo
- Zoo puts humans on display
- 'Old people' cause German centenarian to leave seniors' home
- London restaurants charge diners for not eating
- Japanese students face chopstick test
- Attention heirs to throne: Where are you?
- Items lost on Los Angeles buses include mother's ashes, prosthetic leg
- Dubai to get tower shaped like a Gulf Arab man
- Severe north China winters a boon for ice artists
- Grocery staff finds drugs in banana boxes
- Dolce & Gabbana condemned over knife ads
- Mayor vexed by salesmen on "bat phone"
- U.S. school board fires art teacher who uses posterior as paintbrush
- Montreal city workers come under fire for destroying playground
- Briny Breezes beach-front trailer park sells out for 500 million dlrs
- Three pigs walk into a farmer's house and trigger fire in rural Serbia
- Ads in bins coming soon to US airport security checkpoints
- Scorpion stings man on US flight
- In Argentina, the inmates have taken over the radio station
- Attention heirs to throne: Where are you?
- Dolce & Gabbana condemned over knife ads
- False priest arrested for selling Pope tickets
- Irish banknotes massively tainted with cocaine
- Ice chess players race against thaw in Moscow, London
- Kuwait jails fraudster for 250 years
- 36 years later, German tourist makes amends for shoplifting in Norway
- Video glasses keep porn private in public
- Man electrocuted by do-it-yourself mole-killer
- Balmy London provides slippery setting for chess game played with ice figures
- Man shoots friend in argument over height of late soul singer James Brown
- Florida burglar answer's parents plea, returns urn with ashes of their late son
- Lab-like rats swim into toilets of Tucson homes; don't blame us says Arizona U
- Couple confesses to killing noisy neighbors
- Arming TV celebrities raises concerns
- Lawmakers say no to "sexist" chastity bill
- Stolen ashes of Florida child returned to parents
- Have you seen Nepal? Not really, Peru says
- Politician seeks bargain jet
- New toilet is flush with fish
- Report: Japanese school to test chopstick skills as part of entrance exams
- U.S. staff sergeant relieved of duties after posing nude for Playboy
- Cake crumbs lead police right to robbers
- Kuwait jails fraudster for 250 years
- Irish banknotes massively tainted with cocaine
- Food for thought: L.A. Dodgers offer all-you-can-eat seats
- Plane part falls through roof of Chicago home, lands close to woman's bed
- Tattoo artist in Wales seeks empty head for special 'eggs and bacon' design
- More Internet sex please, we're Croatian
- Indian TV stations face action over pole-dancing Mahatma Gandhi clip
- Lawyer says he's 'kissed off' by political correctness; charged for Xmas smooch
- Indian policeman penalised for fining law-breaking cricket star
- Czech PM's estranged wife calls for him to lose crucial confidence vote
- Shanghai orders 'Frog's Mistress' tea shop to change 'unethical' name
- Life's a picnic for ASEAN 'significant others'
- U.S. skunk seeks ride home: only brave need apply
- Charity Singapore eatery dishes up "priceless" food
- Suspicious package sent to Clintons turns out to be cookies
- Wynn calls offer for damaged Picasso in New York City case 'ridiculous'!
- Dante gets posthumous nose job - 700 years on
- China teens casual about one-night stands: poll
- Thailand puts panda on low-carb sex diet
- Hong Kong tobacco expo bosses fume over no-smoking rules
- Wealthy Portuguese man selects heirs at random from phone book
- Thailand puts panda on low-carb sex diet
- Mozart makes for fatter pigs, swears Vietnamese farmer
- New Delhi lacks social graces, study finds
- Different robbers hit same Georgia bank twice in less than 24 hours
- Ex-resident demonstrates her love for New York, sends city cheque for $7,000
- Are there any lakes in the Lake District?
- British adventurer sets hot-air balloon altitude record in central Alberta
- Pittsburgh zoo polar bear, Koda, recovering from root canal on infected tooth
- U.S. Postal Service launches Love & Kisses stamp; illustrator works in Toronto
- U.S. skunk seeks ride home: only brave need apply
- Daughter wanted ad draws 100-plus candidates
- Roadside rest-stop costs jeweler