An elementary school's worst nightmare came true earlier this week when the toilets stopped working. Faced with about 600 wriggling, squirming youngsters, Bonham Elementary officials on Wednesday morn...

MySpace.com, the fast-growing community website hugely popular with American teens, has removed 200,000 “objectionable” profiles from its site as it steps up efforts to calm fears about the safety of...

A machine filled with toys must've been awfully tempting to a three-year-old boy. The tot crawled through the toy discharge chute in the Toy Chest claw machine at a Godfather's Pizza in Austin and...

Authorities confiscated more than $200 million in U.S. currency from methamphetamine producers in one of this city's ritziest neighborhoods, they said Friday, calling it the largest drug cash seizure...

Most Iraqis believe life is better for them now than it was under Saddam Hussein, according to a British opinion poll published today. The survey of more than 5,000 Iraqis found the majority optimi...

A Russian man lost his wife in a game of cards after putting her up as a stake instead of cash. Andrei Karpov from Murmansk had run out of money in a game of poker and offered his opponent his wife...

Healthy new-born babies may have been killed in Ukraine to feed a flourishing international trade in stem cells, evidence obtained by the BBC suggests. Disturbing video footage of post-mortem exami...

The blind will be able to go hunting if a Texas Bill becomes law. They would have to be accompanied by a sighted hunter, who would help to guide their shots, and carry proof that they were legally...

Driver Stephen Ellison keeps bringing traffic grinding to a halt - by going to town in a 7.5 tonne tank. The father of one has left other motorists stunned after shelling out £14,000 on a 1974 Sabr...

Blind since age 3, Ben Underwood skateboards, shoots hoops and plays video games. How does he do it? Just like bats and dolphins...