A humble orange traffic cone got the red-carpet treatment in Boston this week. Fresh off a first-class flight from Glasgow, the cone was welcomed at Boston Logan International Airport with a bagpiper ...

A Portland man's dream property has turned into a nightmare made out of rubber. Khanh Tran bought a 1.2-acre lot near Southeast 154th Avenue and Powell Boulevard in February, picturing a home where hi ...

Here is an unusual prescription: drink a lot of soda. Doctors in Massachusetts recently reported treating a 63-year-old woman with a large mass in her stomach by having her drink Diet Coke. Writing in ...

A Nepalese man has lost four family members to the same wild elephant over the span of more than a decade. In 2012, Shanichara Bote lost both his mother and father in a brutal elephant attack in the M ...

A superstitious man in China ended up with a detached retina after slapping his own twitching eye to chase away bad luck. In Chinese folklore, a twitching left eye is said to bring wealth, while a twi ...

An England soccer fan who set off an international search after vanishing on his way to the World Cup was found safe in a Barcelona pub, completely unaware that anyone was looking for him. Michael Hew ...

Science is hard. Once you’ve created cyborg cockroaches, you have to think about if they can swim. No worries…scientists have built a tiny 3D-printed scuba suit for cyborg cockroaches, letting them su ...

A 79-year-old great-grandmother in England says she was left feeling like a criminal after being banned for life from every Sainsbury's and Argos store in the UK. Rita Seymour, from Hook, Hampshire, s ...