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TOKYO (AP) - Japan's oldest man, Tomoji Tanabe, blew out candles on his birthday cake with his 3-year-old great-grandchild at his home in southern Japan on Monday, celebrating his 111th birthday, his ...

VIENNA, Austria (AP) - The world's tallest man said Sunday he was happy with his height but used to wish he were "normal."

At seven feet, 8.95 inches, Xi Shun, of Mongolia, has held the ...

MIAMI (AP) - A man's body floated up near where a crew was filming a scene for the crime show "CSI: Miami," authorities said.

The body washed up early Friday in Biscayne Bay at Bicentenn ...

GREENSBURG, Ind. (AP) - Jay Stokes celebrated his 50th birthday by jumping out of an airplane - 640 times.

The veteran skydiver did it to break his own world record of 534 jumps in a 24-hour perio ...

HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) - Robert Breinig was ready to cram down the hot dogs. He had kept his stomach empty for nearly two days in preparation for the hot-dog-eating contest at the Kansas State Fair.
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MADRID, Spain (AP) - Spanish police officers settling in for a video presentation on how to get promoted to sergeant were instead shown footage from a hard-core pornographic film, officials said Tuesd ...

SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - A 50-year-old British tourist was rescued by police for the second time in just over a week Tuesday after twice getting lost in Australia's rugged outback.

The man, whose ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - A nurse returning home from work discovered an intruder armed with a hammer in her home and strangled him with her bare hands, police said.

Susan Kuhnhausen, 51, ran to a nei ...

LONDON, Ont. (CP) - Roxanne Toussaint says she loves her kids, but hates their attitude, and hopes a strike will make them change their ways.

The London, Ontario mother has launched a strike again ...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - Die-hard fans of Argentina's most famous soccer club now can take their loyalty to the grave.

Boosters of the Boca Juniors unveiled a private cemetery plot on Thursd ...

BRATTLEBORO, Vt. (AP) - Public nudity isn't new to this bastion of bohemia, but it usually bares itself in more subtle places than the downtown parking lot.

This summer, a group of teenagers has d ...

SOUTH SALT LAKE, Utah (AP) - A 75-year-old woman ran after a man who stole her purse, got it back and gave him a tongue-lashing - and $3.

Betty Horton said the man apologized to her and said he wa ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - George Johnson, considered California's oldest living person at 112 and the state's last surviving First World War veteran, had experts shaking their heads over his junk food diet. ...

I think it must have been a slow news day because everyone was making a bigger deal of it then anything else. I just wonder how her brother's girlfriend will respond to Kyra saying she all those thin ...

NEW YORK (AP) - Kyra Phillips, anchor of CNN's Live From, unwittingly upstaged President George W. Bush's speech in New Orleans with an on-air analysis of her husband and the marriage of her brother - ...