It's a happy Mother's Day for an Arkansas woman - she's pregnant with her 18th child.
Since they first walked the planet, humans have either buried or burned their dead. Now a new option is generating interest -- dissolving bodies in lye and flushing the brownish, syrupy residue down the drain.
The platypus sports fur like a mammal, paddles its duck feet like a bird and lays eggs in the manner of a reptile.
Tornadoes that tore through Arkansas last week picked up homes, cars and everything in between - including a check from 1971.
A painstaking two-year investigation to determine which of two skulls belonged to Friedrich Schiller has found neither is a match, prolonging a 180-year-old mystery over the celebrated German poet's remains.
Ex-model Frail Jeremy Gillitzer has suffered from anorexia for 25 years. He now weights only 41.275 kg. [Ic.eastday.com]
A Westchester County teenager is facing a long list of charges after allegedly trying to rob two men and finding out they were undercover police officers.
Steve Kreuscher wants a judge to allow him to legally change his name. He wants to be known as "In God We Trust."
Erik Youngdahl and Michelle Garcia share a dorm room at Connecticut's Wesleyan University. But they say there's no funny business going on. Really. They mean it.
A city bureaucrat in western Japan was suspended from his job after officials discovered he visited porn websites at work almost every day.
Charles Ray Fuller must have been planning one big record company. The 21-year-old North Texas man was arrested last week for trying to cash a $360 billion check, saying he wanted to start a record business.
A 36-year-old Swiss amateur parachutist made a successful 650-metre drop Saturday using a replica of a parachute designed more than 500 years ago by Leonardo da Vinci.
Polar icebreaker Snow Dragon arrives in Antarctic
Xi's vision on shared future for humanity
UN's top environmental honors go to three in China
German trains collide near Duesseldorf, several people injured
China beats Germany 7-4 in men's curling Olympic qualification
Bayern beat Paris Saint-Germain 3-1 in UEFA Champions League
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