Last Updated: April 6, 2011 12:56pm
By Reuters
A smiling close-up of Silvio Berlusconi and Moroccan teenager Karima El Mahroug together would have been a priceless picture for photographers attending the Italian prime minister’s trial on underage prostitution charges.
Last Updated: April 6, 2011 12:41pm
By QMI Agency
A Florida civil liberties group is inviting women to incorporate their uteruses to protect them against government intervention.
Last Updated: April 6, 2011 9:21am
By Bob Mackin, QMI Agency
Civil libertarians are crying foul after a rapid transit passenger was ejected for wearing a button containing a certain four-letter word before “yoga.”
Last Updated: April 5, 2011 6:20pm
By Ellen Wulfhorst, Reuters
Bank robberies in the United States take place most often in mid-morning, on Fridays and in southern and western states, according to government statistics released Tuesday.
Last Updated: April 5, 2011 1:21pm
By Reuters
An Austrian chocolate company vowed on Tuesday to appeal a ruling by a Vienna court that stops it from producing Easter bunnies resembling those made by Switzerland’s Lindt & Spruengli.
Last Updated: April 5, 2011 10:24am
By Alexandria Sage, Reuters
The Paris sewers — whose murky labyrinths have been reviled and romanticized through history — are at the centre of a renewable energy experiment to harness heat for buildings, including the presidential palace.
Last Updated: April 3, 2011 4:10pm
By QMI Agency
An elderly California man is charged for allegedly stabbing a neighbour in a fight over his kittens, reports say.
Last Updated: April 2, 2011 12:13pm
By QMI Agency
Spanish police caught a convict who twice escaped from custody after his wife sent fake faxes ordering his release.
Last Updated: April 1, 2011 12:59pm
By Suzi Parker, Reuters
Students living in the state of Arkansas who love their sagging pants will soon have to leave them at home.
Last Updated: April 1, 2011 12:10pm
By QMI Agency
A man hiding behind a curtain in a Barrie, Ont., park was arrested following a domestic dispute early Friday morning.
Last Updated: April 1, 2011 1:59pm
By QMI Agency
An art teacher at a posh British boys school who posed topless for photos in her classroom is distraught after those photos fell into the hands of her students and were quickly circulated, local media reports.
Last Updated: April 1, 2011 10:46am
By QMI Agency
The Bronx Zoo cobra has been found.
Last Updated: April 1, 2011 10:27am
By QMI Agency
Friday is April Fool's Day -- at least until noon -- and members of the media and companies were having fun with readers and customers.
Last Updated: March 31, 2011 4:20pm
By Ian Robertson, QMI Agency
Coyotes have been known to snatch house pets, but rarely do they offer such a front-row seat to their brazen attack.
Last Updated: March 31, 2011 1:52pm
By QMI Agency
Two Texas high school students have been kicked off their baseball team for allegedly sacrificing chickens, a local newspaper is reporting.
Last Updated: March 31, 2011 8:10am
By QMI Agency
An excavation of catacomb under the Egyptian desert has revealed the remains of millions of mummified dogs and jackals, British researchers say.
Last Updated: March 31, 2011 8:12am
By Reuters
An airline stewardess struggling to lift her bag at a German airport led to the discovery of a 6-million euro ($8.4 million) coin fraud.
Last Updated: March 30, 2011 7:02pm
By QMI Agency
A U.S. trucker was saved from choking to death on an apple by slamming into a median.
Last Updated: March 31, 2011 1:29pm
By QMI Agency
Smokey the cat's loud purr has been likened to a lawnmower, a hair dryer and a "Boeing 747 coming in to land from a mile away."
Last Updated: March 30, 2011 9:13am
By QMI Agency
Lovers of Tim Hortons' apple fritters may want to try a new ice cream.
Last Updated: March 29, 2011 6:08pm
By MARK DUNN, Senior National Reporter
Stolen G-strings are doing their bit to take a tiny bite out of crime.
Last Updated: March 29, 2011 11:31am
By QMI Agency
Two people have been charged in connection with a break-in totalling $304, Ontario police said.
Last Updated: March 29, 2011 2:26pm
By QMI Agency
A cobra that is missing from a New York zoo now has a Twitter account.
Last Updated: March 29, 2011 9:56am
By QMI Agency
An Australian mother and her giggling 13-month-old daughter were kicked off a bus for making too much noise, a local newspaper reports.
Last Updated: March 29, 2011 7:41am
By QMI Agency
Police in Victoria, B.C., were called to break up a fight between a man and his nephew over the last beer in a case.