Offbeat | Three foreign tourists dead after boat capsizes in Thailand

Rescuers in Thailand searched Friday for a British man who was still missing after a speedboat packed with tourists capsized near the popular resort island of Koh Samui, leaving three women dead,

Offbeat | Thai man bloodied but unbowed after intimate attack by snake

Attaporn Boonmakchuay was smiling as Thai television stations interviewed him in his hospital bed about the intimate intrusion, and doctors said he would recover. But photos of his blood-splattered bathroom

Offbeat | Chewbacca Mom’s infectious laugh draws more than 137m views on Facebook

Before last week, Candace Payne’s infectious laugh was known only to her close friends and family. After she went into hysterics donning a toy Chewbacca mask in a video she

Offbeat | In sync: Over 31,000 in China set world dance record

China’s dancing grannies have taken their moves to the record books. Guinness World Records says more than 31,000 Chinese participants have set a record for mass plaza dancing in multiple locations. Some

Offbeat | 12-year-old California student ready to start university

Tanishq Abraham has been accepted to UC Davis and received a regents scholarship to UC Santa Cruz, but he has yet to decide which university he’ll attend, reported Sacramento television

Offbeat | 17 Taiwan tourists injured in train-bus crash in Switzerland

Police in the nearby Swiss capital of Bern said in a statement the accident happened Friday night at a railway crossing involving a bus registered in neighboring Austria. Police were

Offbeat | A Finn idea: In Helsinki, a Burger King with a sauna

Finland’s Parliament has one. Nokia has one. And now a Burger King restaurant in downtown Helsinki has its own sauna. Hanne-Mari Ahonen, brand manager for Burger King in Finland, this week

Offbeat | Texas woman sells ‘housebroken’ bison she let wander inside

Bullet the bison was transported this weekend from Karen Schoeve’s home in Argyle to her new home, which she will share with two cows, 15 miles away in Flower Mound. Schoeve

Offbeat | First US penis transplant could bring hope to maimed soldiers

A 64-year-old cancer patient has received the nation’s first penis transplant, a groundbreaking operation that may also help accident victims and some of the many U.S. veterans maimed by roadside

Offbeat | Caught: Philadelphia police van is disguised as Google Maps vehicle

Philadelphia police officers attached a large Google Maps logo to a surveillance van in an apparent attempt to disguise it as one of the company’s street-filming cars. Police spokesman Lt. John

Offbeat | ‘This is impossible:’ New York man wins his 2nd USD1m lottery

A construction worker who won USD1 million in a lottery scratch-­off game four years ago has defied enormous odds by hitting a $1 million jackpot again. But don’t call him lucky. After

Offbeat | 50 years after riot, publisher asks Rolling Stones to return to Lynn

Ted Grant, publisher of the Daily Item in Lynn, said in an open letter published this week that “a lot has changed” since the band was last in town, on

Offbeat | US: Leaping sturgeon knocks boater unconscious on Florida river

Wildlife officials say a Florida man was knocked unconscious by a sturgeon that leapt into his boat on the Suwannee River during a fishing tournament. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation

Offbeat | These beasts are beauties: India holds bovine beauty pageant

Hundreds of cows and bulls walked the ramp in a north Indian town Saturday in a bovine beauty pageant aimed at promoting domestic cattle breeds and raising awareness about animal

Offbeat | London’s new Muslim mayor joins Holocaust memorial

London’s newly elected Muslim mayor, Sadiq Khan, has joined an annual memorial to the millions of Jews slain in the Holocaust as his first official act in office. Khan made Sunday’s

Offbeat | The fireman’s pole is history – at least in Vienna

The fireman’s pole is history — at least in Vienna. Firefighter spokesman Lukas Schauer says the last pole in the Austrian capital was removed recently, marking the end of a spectacular

Offbeat | Cross-bearing ‘Jesus’ arrested at Apple store for trespass

A man who calls himself “Philly Jesus” has a new cross to bear: He was arrested at a Philadelphia Apple store on a trespassing charge. Philly Jesus’ real name is Michael

Offbeat | Albania hopes to lure tourists with Communist nuclear bunker

A facility that was designed to keep Albania running after a nuclear attack is the latest relic of the country’s dark Communist past that is being reinvented as a modern

Offbeat | Professor puts CV of his failures online to give perspective

A Princeton University professor has published a CV of his career failures as a way to give perspective to students who are feeling discouraged. Johannes Haushofer writes atop the CV that

Offbeat | Rotary Club: Winner of rubber duck race can dine anywhere in the world

A rotary club in a small Massachusetts town is gearing up for its annual rubber ducky race in which the winner’s prize is a free dinner for two anywhere in

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