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Last Updated: April 30, 2011 11:12pm

Inmate breaks up fight between guards

A prisoner at a New York State jail reportedly lost a tooth as he tried to break up a scrap between two veteran guards fighting over a bag of chips, reports say.

Last Updated: April 29, 2011 2:05pm

Girls tricked into sex by ‘warlock’, court hears

A U.K. court heard Thursday that a gravedigger tricked girls into having sex with him by claiming he was a warlock who could grant them special powers.

Last Updated: April 28, 2011 3:07pm

Fraudster calls police on himself

A fraudster couldn't bring himself to go through with a plan to rob the bowling alley he'd already ripped off for $30,000, so he turned himself in to police.

Last Updated: April 27, 2011 2:32pm

San Francisco may ban male circumcision

A U.S. group opposed to male circumcision said they have collected more than enough signatures for a proposal to ban the practice in San Francisco as a ballot measure for November elections.

Last Updated: April 27, 2011 10:43am

Turks fail cops' scam test

Turkish police donned white coats and stethoscopes to disguise themselves as doctors, then knocked on people’s doors to see how easily they would fall for a confidence scam.

Last Updated: April 26, 2011 10:42am

Vacant house gutted by thieves

Thieves who broke into a vacant home in a small hamlet in southwestern Ontario quite literally took everything but the kitchen sink.

Last Updated: April 24, 2011 4:56pm

Friends take $5,000 cab ride from NYC to L.A.

It cost $5,000 and took nearly a week for a pair of friends to take a cab from New York City to Los Angeles.

Last Updated: April 23, 2011 12:37pm

Man attacks Girls Gone Wild tour bus: Cops

It wasn't the girls going wild at a Michigan bar.

Last Updated: April 23, 2011 3:21pm

Giant, stinky flower to bloom after 17 years

A giant, rotting-flesh-scented flower is expected to draw 10,000 people to a Swiss garden to watch it bloom for the first time in nearly 20 years.

Last Updated: April 22, 2011 7:49pm

Man's sperm found in co-worker's water bottle

A California man was sentenced Friday after twice putting his semen into the water bottle of a female co-worker.

Last Updated: April 22, 2011 7:13pm

Teen fakes pregnancy for school project

A Grade 11 student shocked her classmates after she revealed she had faked a pregnancy for a school project.

Last Updated: April 22, 2011 4:35pm

Man has bullet removed from head after 23 years

A Chinese man has had a bullet removed from his head after being shot 23 years ago.

Last Updated: April 19, 2011 8:19pm

Man checks in with police, gets arrested

A 24-year-old man who checked in with Greater Sudbury Police on Monday afternoon as part as part of his bail conditions was not only late for his appointment, but he parked in a disabled parking spot and was not supposed to be driving.

Last Updated: April 18, 2011 11:43pm

Depressed man cooked, ate own finger

A New Zealand man struggling with depression cut off his own finger, cooked it with vegetables and ate it, doctors reported in the latest issue of medical journal Australasian Psychiatry.

Last Updated: April 18, 2011 11:21am

Half-naked woman with bird in car arrested

Police in Kitchener, Ont., say officers arrested a woman Sunday who was driving while only partially dressed and with a pet bird flying loose in her car.

Last Updated: April 18, 2011 9:49am

Most small dog owners like pet more than friends

In a new survey, more than half of respondents said their small dog is more important to them than their friends.

Last Updated: April 18, 2011 8:35am

Most Canadians believe penguins in Arctic: Survey

The majority of Canadians believe those living in the North live in igloos and penguins may live in the Arctic, a new survey has found.<

Last Updated: April 16, 2011 5:06pm

Mailman suspended for defecating in yard

An Oregon mailman has been suspended for making an unwanted delivery.

Last Updated: April 15, 2011 2:37pm

Statue of Liberty postage stamp shows Las Vegas

After printing 3 billion copies of a new postage stamp bearing an image of the Statue of Liberty, the United States Postal Service received a strange question from a stamp collector.

Last Updated: April 15, 2011 10:20pm

TMZ tries to shut down parody site

TMZforKidz offers up the latest news on kid stars and stars' kids -- only it's not real.

Last Updated: April 15, 2011 11:20am

Stubborn moose run out of town

A moose wandering into town is a rare enough site in this small community south of Edmonton, and this one didn't appear to want to leave.

Last Updated: April 15, 2011 11:12am

Baker apologizes for swastika cakes

An Austrian baker, under investigation for icing cakes with Nazi symbols, has apologized to the head of a Holocaust awareness group for causing offence.

Last Updated: April 14, 2011 3:37pm

School wants Easter eggs called 'spring spheres'

A Seattle teen volunteering in a Grade 3 classroom says she wanted to put treats together for the children for Easter, but was told she'd have to call the eggs "spring spheres."

Last Updated: April 14, 2011 2:14pm

Unmanned tractor goes on rampage

An unmanned tractor at a Walmart parking lot in Richmond Hill, Canada goes on quite the rampage. Props to the guy who tried to hop on and save it!

Last Updated: April 13, 2011 7:53pm

Boy, 2, given sangria at restaurant, mom says

The Florida mother of a two-year-old boy says her son was handed a glass of sangria instead of orange juice at an Olive Garden.

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