In a major new climate finding, researchers have calculated that dinosaur flatulence could have put enough methane into the atmosphere to warm the planet during the hot, wet Mesozoic era.
A football that bobbed onto the shore of a remote Alaska island is likely the first salvageable debris from last year's Japanese tsunami that could be returned to its owner, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
A Vietnamese traffic cop went on a wild ride in Hanoi, clinging to the windshield wipers of a moving bus for nearly 1km after the rogue driver tried to avoid a ticket, police said yeterday.
Scotland has called in taste testers to sample the fish found near the site of Total's North Sea gas leak, an unusual gastronomic exercise intended to provide reassurance to Scottish seafood lovers.
An elephant called Baby did not want a bath.
A veterinarian says acting like a flying squirrel may have saved a cat from serious injury in a 19-storey plunge from a Boston high rise.
A Thai taxi driver has returned gold worth $US450,000 ($NZ546,000) to a customer who left the jewellery behind three days earlier.
Police in Ogden, Utah, say an 8-year-old boy took his 5-year-old sister on a drive in the middle of the night and crashed the family minivan.
What's advertised as the smallest town in the United States goes up for auction next month.
A Sri Lankan man has died while trying to set a record for the longest time spent buried alive, police say.
Frenchman Robert Marchand entered the cycling record books in the one-hour event at the weekend, three months after celebrating his 100th birthday.
A stray dog is getting credit for thwarting a prison break in Paraguay.
Laughing tourists were either cynical or confused about whether a man was really suffering a medical episode amid the "doctor," ''nurses" and health warnings at the Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas, a restaurant owner says.
Qasim Khan has waged the unlikeliest of battles with Pakistani authorities over the right to charge hundreds of curious visitors the equivalent of 26 cents each to see a huge whale shark he bought from a fisherman.
Piles of sauerkraut tumbled out of a truck on a busy German motorway and quickly froze to the autobahn surface, causing a massive traffic jam near Frankfurt during Tuesday's morning rush hour, police say.
An unemployed Irish artist has built a home from the shredded remains of 1.4 billion euros ($NZ2.24 billion), a monument to the "madness" he says has been wrought on Ireland by the single currency, from a spectacular construction boom to a wrenching bust.
An 85-year-old Alaska woman used a grain shovel to fend off an agitated moose that was stomping her husband.
Gail Glaenzer still can't believe that her fiancé unknowingly shot a nail into his skull, let alone that he posted a picture of the X-ray on Facebook during his ambulance ride between hospitals for surgery.
A snowshoer who was lost in a blizzard for two days on Washington state's Mount Rainier said he burned his paper money for warmth.
Police in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez ticketed a 6-year-old boy for reckless driving, driving without a licence and not having his toy motorcycle registered after he crashed it into an SUV.
