Offbeat News

A Canadian woman claims she was trying to show her former boyfriend she wasn't marriage material when she stole $21,000 from his credit card.

A pro-rape Facebook page, set up by a group of past and present elite Australian college students, has been taken down, but still ran from early August until late October, authorities say.

She cannot hold her daughter because her belly gets in the way, and has to rely on her husband Will to do most things around the house.

The pair ended their 36-year marriage when they were both two years away from their 100th birthdays.

Bob Jaracz has always considered himself a lucky guy, and judging by his lottery winnings, he's right.

Marine biologists have figured out why a growing number of dead harbor porpoises have been found on California beaches in recent years: dolphin attacks.

A former Albuquerque auto dealer, faced with an ailing economy and difficulty getting credit for his dealership, says he turned to gambling last year in a bid to salvage the business.

The city of romance got a lesson in love's hard knocks Sunday, as thousands flocked to the French capital's first divorce fair.

A Brazilian university has expelled a woman who was heckled by hundreds of fellow students for wearing a short, pink dress to class - publicly accusing her Sunday of immorality.

It was the roll of a lifetime. Hundreds of amateur sushi chefs at the University of California, Berkeley got their hands fishy Sunday as they assembled a 330-foot California roll.

An early morning walk to his farm has left footprints which burnt portions of grass on his village lawn.

Villager Sikeli Nadiri, who lives in Daroko settlement, outside Savusavu, is baffled as he tries to figure out the cause of his mysterious brown prints.

STUDENT Vicki Larrieux cannot eat her five-a-day because she is frightened of ­vegetables. She suffers from a fear called lachanophobia, which leaves her sweating and stricken with panic attacks at the mere sight of a sprout or a pea.

She said: “I have always had an ­irrational fear of vegetables – even as a child I used to properly freak out if some carrots or a few peas were on my plate.

[I sympathize. The sight (and site!) of Brussel Sprouts makes me gibber in fear. -ed.]

Police in Saudi Arabia have arrested a man from Taif for allegedly subjecting his wife and children to physical abuse for 18 years to exorcise the spirit with which he believed they were possessed, the daily Saudi Gazette reported on Monday.

Operating a motorized recliner while drunk apparently drives up the chair's value.

Previously, I wrote that Carrie Prejean, the former Miss California and anti-same-sex marriage activist, dropped her lawsuit against the Miss California pageant. She dropped it after being shown (for reportedly 15 seconds) a XXX-rated solo sex tape featuring Prejean that had been obtained by the Miss C. pageant's lawyers.

Edward Ates (ironic name, yes?), the man who used the "Fat Defense" in his murder trial, has been convicted by a New Jersey jury. Ates had argued he was too obese to commit the murder.

Iowa City Police Sgt. Troy Kelsay says the victim, a 21-year-old Johnson County man who he didn't identify, suffered injuries over most of his body.

Police in Florida say a graffiti artist who apparently ran out of paint midway through a spray-painted creation left a note to potential critics to explain the unfinished work.

As death threats preceded the startup of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) last year, one might not be surprised at foul play as testing is performed prior to the restart of the LHC. But fowl play?