Toronto mayor Rob Ford is no stranger to controversy but a video surfacing of him hitting a crack pipe might just be enough to make his career go up in smoke. (Dennis Grombkowski/AFP/Getty Images)
A video has allegedly surfaced of the wacky mayor smoking crack cocaine and talking smack about other politicians.
Ricardo Cerezo, of Geneva, Illinois, got an extremely sweet surprise after looking in his cookie jar recently and finding a winning lottery ticket. (Justin Sullivan/AFP/Getty Images)
Mothers holding their newly-born babies pose for a photo at Fabella hospital, a government-run maternity hospital during World Population Day in Manila on July 11, 2009. (Ted Aljibe/AFP/Getty Images)
“Hi, I’m trying to adopt out my three year old son. I’m not in a good place in my life and don’t feel like I can care for him properly, but I don’t know where to start."
A new study has shown that pot smokers are skinnier than those who do not inhale marijuana. (Pablo Porciuncula/AFP/Getty Images)
Researchers at the University of Nebraska, the Harvard School of Public Health and the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center tested insulin, blood sugar levels, cholesterol and waist size in 4,600 adults.
Perfect gift for mom: a fetus-hologram-lined jewelry box. (Screengrab/YouTube)
Ultrasounds just scream "twentieth century baby," don't they? Thank goodness Japanese company Pioneer has developed technology worthy of the twenty-first century fetus.
The first life-size Barbie Dreamhouse opened in Berlin on Thursday and is being guarded by police after feminist groups and left-wing activists said they would picket the plastic villa.
While at the iconic doll's dreamhouse, fans can also try on her clothes in her "endless" closet, bake cupcakes in her kitchen, walk her runway and hang out in her living room.
Mosquitoes carrying malaria are somehow manipulated by parasites carrying the disease to make a bee line for the smell of humans, researchers from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine say.
Russian inmates have teamed up with their counterparts in the biggest prison in the US, Chicago's Cook County Jail, to play a chess tournament via Skype.
Alena Kats and Emanuel Grunfeld face off in the HBO Bryant Park Chess Challenge in New York City’s Bryant Park on May 24, 2011. (Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)
"The participation of Russian convicts in the chess event testifies to their desire to follow the path of correction," said Russia's federal prison service.
The word news most often conjures up visions of U.S. troops in Afghanistan, the troubled global economy, a political crisis in Washington, erupting volcanoes and devastating earthquakes. But as we all know, there is far more to news than that. Indeed, it’s often the wacky, weird, offbeat and sometimes off-color stories that can most intrigue and fascinate us. Those stories can range from changing astrological signs to lost pyramids in Egypt but in their essence they all cast new light on the shared human condition in all of its wild diversity.
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