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  1. A flatulent pig sparked a gas emergency in southern Australia when a farmer mistook its odours for a leaking pipe, according to officials.(AFP/File/Tim Sloan)
    Pig farts spark Australia gas scare AFP - Thu Nov 26, 3:08 AM ETSent 158 times

    SYDNEY (AFP) - A flatulent pig sparked a gas emergency in southern Australia when a farmer mistook its odours for a leaking pipe, according to officials.

  2. In this photo taken Monday, Nov. 23, 2009 residue is seen on the bottom of an electric iron at the home of Mary Jo Coady, in Methuen, Mass. Coady says an image of Jesus Christ that she sees in the pattern on the bottom of the iron, which she first noticed on Sunday, has reassured her that 'life is going to be good.' (AP Photo/The Eagle-Tribune, Grant Morris) MANDATORY CREDIT
    Mass. woman sees image of Jesus on her iron AP - Fri Nov 27, 1:54 PM ETSent 97 times

    METHUEN, Mass. - A Massachusetts woman who recently separated from her husband and had her hours cut at work says an image of Jesus Christ she sees on her iron has reassured her that "life is going to be good."

  3. Dog with name tag 'works' drive-through window AP - Wed Nov 25, 9:01 PM ETSent 64 times

    CLEARWATER, Fla. - Customers at one Gulf coast gas station might be surprised at who responds to the counter when they pull up to the drive-through window: The store owner's dog. Dozens of times each day, Cody the chocolate Labradaor retriever will pop up on two paws behind the counter at a BP gas station and convenience store in Clearwater. He even has a BP logo shirt and a name tag. Customers grin and kids squeal with joy in response.

  4. Nazi leader Adolph Hitler waves to crowds in his six seater Mercedes car in this undated World War II file photo. REUTERS/Handout
    Hitler's favorite car makes comeback? Reuters - Tue Nov 24, 3:19 PM ETSent 60 times

    BERLIN (Reuters) - A car expert says he has tracked down Hitler's favorite Mercedes to a garage near the town that helped the Austrian-born Fuehrer become a German citizen.

  5. Bizarre calf mutilations found on Colorado ranch AP - Thu Nov 26, 1:55 PM ETSent 53 times

    SAN LUIS, Colo. - A creepy string of calf mutilations in southern Colorado has a rancher and sheriff's officials mystified.

  6. Police: Dad leaves boy and goes into strip club AP - Tue Nov 24, 9:24 PM ETSent 49 times

    INDIANAPOLIS - A man was arrested after police said he left his 5-year-old son in a tractor-trailer while he ducked into an Indianapolis strip club to drink. The 39-year-old was arrested at 1:15 a.m. Tuesday on child neglect and public intoxication charges after calling police to report his truck stolen and his child missing. Police said the man was too drunk to remember where he had parked.

  7. A judge takes a spoonful of specialty coffee before tasting it during the Cup of Excellence competition in Machado November 13, 2009. REUTERS/Paulo Whitaker
    "Coffee police" fight fraud on shop shelves Reuters - Wed Nov 25, 11:57 AM ETSent 42 times

    GUARAJUBA, Brazil (Reuters) - Brazil's coffee industry is engaged in a tireless battle against rogue roasters who cut corners and costs by bulking up their products with corn, soy or even wood, the ABIC industry association says.

  8. Man robbed of $2 million bank withdrawal Reuters - Tue Nov 24, 3:16 PM ETSent 32 times

    TAIPEI (Reuters) - A man in Taiwan was robbed of more than $2 million in cash that he had just withdrawn from the bank, a police official said on Tuesday.

  9. A woman pushes a pram across a glass walkway in the Victoria Square shopping centre, Belfast, Northern Ireland, November 19, 2009. REUTERS/Cathal McNaughton
    Irish use strike day to shop across border Reuters - Wed Nov 25, 11:57 AM ETSent 18 times

    DUBLIN (Reuters) - Irish workers caused traffic jams on Tuesday as hundreds made use of a one-day public sector strike to do some Christmas shopping in the cheaper stores across the border in Northern Ireland.

  10. Police seek bald man who swiped family's turkey AP - Wed Nov 25, 9:01 PM ETSent 18 times

    JACKSON, Mich. - Jackson police are working to crack a case of fowl play. They're searching for a man who broke into an apartment about 11 p.m. Tuesday and stole a family's holiday turkey. Police Lt. Christopher Simpson told the Jackson Citizen Patriot the suspect ran into the kitchen and stole the turkey out of the freezer.

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  1. Two volunteers in a former monkey cage and dressed as cavemen, are photographed by a visitor at the zoo in Warsaw, Poland, Friday, Nov. 27, 2009. The zoo has opened a week-long display where two volunteers - a man and a woman - spend time in the cage to remind visitors that humans are animals too. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)
    Caged 'cavemen' go on display at Warsaw zoo AP - Fri Nov 27, 10:53 AM ET

    WARSAW, Poland - Visitors to Warsaw's zoo are being greeted by two "Homo sapiens" peering out from a cage — humans in animal skins trying to spark interest in man's caveman ancestors.

  2. Mass. woman sees image of Jesus on her iron AP - Fri Nov 27, 1:54 PM ET

    METHUEN, Mass. - A Massachusetts woman who recently separated from her husband and had her hours cut at work says an image of Jesus Christ she sees on her iron has reassured her that "life is going to be good."

  3. Bizarre calf mutilations found on Colorado ranch AP - Thu Nov 26, 1:55 PM ET

    SAN LUIS, Colo. - A creepy string of calf mutilations in southern Colorado has a rancher and sheriff's officials mystified.

  4. Tareq (right) and Michaele Salahi are pictured arriving for the state dinner in honour of India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the White House in Washington, DC on November 24. The US Secret Service is investigating how the two White House gatecrashers beat several layers of security to attend the state dinner.(AFP/File/Mandel Ngan)
    Gatecrashers met Obama, Secret Service 'embarrassed' AFP - 1 hour, 52 minutes ago

    WASHINGTON (AFP) - The two aspiring reality TV stars who gatecrashed a state dinner this week met President Barack Obama at the event, a White House photograph showed.

  5. Pig farts spark Australia gas scare AFP - Thu Nov 26, 3:08 AM ET

    SYDNEY (AFP) - A flatulent pig sparked a gas emergency in southern Australia when a farmer mistook its odours for a leaking pipe, according to officials.

  6. Romanian detainees from Baia Mare Penitentiary perform on the stage of Nottara Theatre in Bucharest on November 25. Men convicted of murder, drug trafficking and robbery lined up on the stage of the prestigious Bucharest theatre to be given a standing ovation.(AFP/File/Daniel Mihailescu)
    Prison drama an escape for Romanian inmates AFP - Fri Nov 27, 12:03 PM ET

    BUCHAREST (AFP) - Men convicted of murder, drug trafficking and robbery lined up on the stage of the prestigious Bucharest theatre to be given a standing ovation.

  7. Warsaw's zoo has opened a new display where two volunteers dressed as cavemen will spend time in a former monkey-cage, to remind visitors that humans are animals too.(AFP/Janek Skarzynski)
    Polish zoo lets visitors meet the Flintstones AFP - Fri Nov 27, 6:07 AM ET

    WARSAW (AFP) - Warsaw's zoo has opened a new display where two volunteers dressed as cavemen will spend time in a former monkey-cage, to remind visitors that humans are animals too, organisers said Friday.

  8. Brazilian university student Geisy Arruda arrives to testify at a police station in Sao Bernardo do Campo, Brazil, on the outskirts of Sao Paulo, Thursday, Nov. 26, 2009. Arruda, 20, was expelled from Bandeirantes University Oct. 22 for wearing a short dress to class. (AP Photo/Nelson Antoine)
    Brazil miniskirt student will parade in Carnival AP - Thu Nov 26, 7:28 PM ET

    SAO BERNARDO DO CAMPO, Brazil - Brazilians will be seeing a whole lot more of the student whose short pink dress got her booted from college: She's agreed to march in the nation's famously flesh-baring Carnival parades.

  9. A British man who falsely claimed to be an aristocrat about to inherit a fortune has been detained in Spain on suspicion of conning women he promised to marry out of hundreds of thousands of euros, police said Thursday.(AFP/File/Philippe Desmazes)
    Phony British aristocrat detained in Spain for fraud AFP - Thu Nov 26, 6:57 PM ET

    MADRID (AFP) - A British man who falsely claimed to be an aristocrat about to inherit a fortune has been detained in Spain on suspicion of conning women he promised to marry out of hundreds of thousands of euros, police said Thursday.

  10. Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borisov speaks to the media in front of the polling station in Bankya, near Sofia, November 15, 2009. REUTERS/Oleg Popov
    Bulgarians name brandy after PM after tax victory Reuters - Fri Nov 27, 11:24 AM ET

    SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgarian villagers have named their home-made rakia brandy "Borisovka," playing on the name of Prime Minister Boiko Borisov to thank him for stopping parliament from raising taxes on alcohol.

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  1. Mass. woman sees image of Jesus on her iron AP - Fri Nov 27, 1:54 PM ET

    METHUEN, Mass. - A Massachusetts woman who recently separated from her husband and had her hours cut at work says an image of Jesus Christ she sees on her iron has reassured her that "life is going to be good."

  2. Caged 'cavemen' go on display at Warsaw zoo AP - Fri Nov 27, 10:53 AM ET

    WARSAW, Poland - Visitors to Warsaw's zoo are being greeted by two "Homo sapiens" peering out from a cage — humans in animal skins trying to spark interest in man's caveman ancestors.

  3. A woman collects money in a mobile post office set up near L'aquila in April 2009. A computer glitch left Italian Post Office customers in the red by processing card transactions at 100 times their value, Italian press reported Thursday.(AFP/File/Christophe Simon)
    Post Office card error leaves Italians in the red: report AFP - Thu Nov 26, 7:01 PM ET

    MILAN (AFP) - A computer glitch left Italian Post Office customers in the red by processing card transactions at 100 times their value, Italian press reported Thursday.

  4. Bulgarians name brandy after PM after tax victory Reuters - Fri Nov 27, 11:24 AM ET

    SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgarian villagers have named their home-made rakia brandy "Borisovka," playing on the name of Prime Minister Boiko Borisov to thank him for stopping parliament from raising taxes on alcohol.

  5. Phony British aristocrat detained in Spain for fraud AFP - Thu Nov 26, 6:57 PM ET

    MADRID (AFP) - A British man who falsely claimed to be an aristocrat about to inherit a fortune has been detained in Spain on suspicion of conning women he promised to marry out of hundreds of thousands of euros, police said Thursday.

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