Offbeat News

Authorities in the Dutch city of Oisterwijk say a fire has broken out at a factory that makes firelighting blocks for barbecues and campfires.

Sharon Harvey of the Cleveland Animal Protective League said Wednesday that Lurlene the cat welcomed Noland the puppy to her "unusual little family."

Having their music featured on TV shows like "True Blood," and "Vampire Diaries," performing at festivals like Bonnaroo, and touring all over the country, it is hard to ignore Delta Rae.

Two men have been charged in the Albany, New York, area in a bizarre plan to use a device loosely described as a ray gun to "target people they didn't like," a federal law enforcement source with knowledge of the investigation said Wednesday.

It sounds like a scene from an episode of "The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles," a Nickelodeon slime show or a toxic waste dump.

For Spanish businessman Paco Santos, the safest place to keep money is still under a mattress - or rather, inside it.

Hairy stockings sold in China are apparently the latest craze used to ward off sexual predators, according to a user on Sina Weibo -- China's Twitter equivalent -- who posted a photo of the accessory that has gone viral.

The male polar bear at the Kansas City Zoo is off exhibit and is being treated with gastrointestinal medication, officials said Tuesday.

A Minnesota mother and her 18-year-old son are accused of stealing nearly $5,000 in frozen gopher feet and selling them for a bounty.

A Kansas City man supported a “nascent” plot to bomb the New York Stock Exchange, an FBI official said Tuesday at a Washington D.C. hearing.

A Canadian couple who recently stumbled upon a 400-year-old skeleton is now saddled with a $5,000 bill, Two weeks ago, Ken Campbell of Sarnia, Ontario, came upon some bones while digging postholes in his backyard.

Former New York City Mayor Ed Koch meticulously planned his own funeral, but his tombstone has the wrong birth date.

Come rain, wind or sunshine, the weather has long been one of Britain's main topics of conversation.

Bill Atkinson was found, abandoned, in a Kansas City, Kan., phone booth, less than a day old and covered in nothing but a blanket.

A man who fell while trying to climb down from a 15th-floor balcony is somehow not only still alive, but is expected to be on his feet again in around a week.

"I think we can relate this back to education, and how we are continuing to try to strive to [pause] figure out how to create jobs right now, that is the biggest problem," she began.

A man who fell while trying to climb down from a 15th-floor balcony is somehow not only still alive, but is expected to be on his feet again in around a week.

Jet-setting Buddhist monks sporting stylish aviator sunglasses are being investigated for not sticking to a lifestyle of "simplicity and self-restraint".

One teen paid the price for foul language, while a handful of others ended up in handcuffs for unusual arrests.

Shawn Stefani celebrates after making a hole-in-one on the 17th hole during the final round of the 113th US Open at Merion Golf Club in Ardmore, Pennsylvania.