Odd News

Voters in two Vermont towns on Tuesday approved a measure that would instruct police to arrest President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for "crimes against our Constitution," local media reported.

Lou Pearlman, the music mogul who launched the Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync, has agreed to plead guilty and make restitution to victims swindled out of an estimated $300 million in phony bank and investment schemes, U.S. prosecutors said on Tuesday.

A 16th century painting deemed too racy by London Underground to advertise a groundbreaking exhibition by German Renaissance artist Lucas Cranach the Elder has made it back in time for the show's opening on Saturday.

Germany's young soldiers are fat, smoke too much and don't exercise enough, a report on the armed services said on Tuesday.

Jelly drinks, pigs' trotters, and now turtle meat and blood: a beauty craze over food rich in collagen, considered to be good for the skin, has added some unusual items to Japanese menus.

Bat an eyelid to replay your favourite iPod tune with a new Japanese remote control that works in the blink of an eye.

It could be paradise, a show carrying samples of the world's best whiskies travelling the globe offering tempting tastings for aficionados and the uninitiated alike.

Seventy years after losing touch, two elderly half-sisters have found each other in a Pennsylvania nursing home.

They are dark, smelly and buried beneath Australia's biggest city, but Sydney's historic sewers have become one of the country's most sought-after tourist destinations.

A controversial young Nepali girl worshipped by many Buddhists and Hindus as a Kumari, or "living goddess", has given up her divine position following a request from her family, an official said on Sunday.

The vast majority of U.S. workers say they work much harder than the president of their firm, according to a new poll from employment advertising company Monster.

A British peace campaigner aiming to walk to India with no money turned back in France when he realised his inability to speak the local language made it impossible to convince people to help him on his way.

A 44-year-old mother of two has become Japan's oldest professional boxer after passing the Japanese board's license test.

In Japan, a simple green herb evokes strong passions.
Coriander, also known as cilantro and most commonly sold as phakchi here, was first brought to Japan more than 700 years ago, but many Japanese hate it because of its pungent flavour and smell.

CBS is bringing mixed martial arts, the bone-crunching combat sport popularly known as "cage fighting," to prime-time television this spring, the U.S. network said on Thursday.

At Edelstein boarding school, the schoolboys wear lip-gloss, the headmistress has a weakness for homoerotic comic books, and there is only one subject: how to serve female visitors.

When the names of the dead started appearing on a pedestrian walkway in the Cretan capital Herakleion, city officials were shocked to discover that stolen marble tombstones had been used in its construction.

Urban sprawl and dwindling snow have forced organizers of the world's most famous sled-dog race to bypass Wasilla, a fast-growing Alaskan city that calls itself "Home of the Iditarod."

A newborn baby girl survived an ignoble birth after slipping down the toilet bowl of a moving train onto the tracks when a pregnant woman unexpectedly gave birth while relieving herself on Tuesday.