Offbeat | US Police: We’d go to next Easter egg hunts after weekend mess

Police in a Connecticut town say they’d want to be present at future Easter egg hunts at candy company Pez’s visitor center after a hunt over the weekend turned into

Offbeat | Special delivery: Cat sent by mail by British owners survives eight days in box

A tough Siamese cat named Cupcake has survived eight days cooped up in a box after accidentally being sent through the mail by her British owners. Cupcake was in a box

Offbeat | After 27 years, Nobel panel condemns Rushdie death threats

Two members quit the academy in 1989 after it refused to condemn Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini’s fatwa, or religious edict, against Rushdie for allegedly blaspheming Islam in his book “The Satanic

Offbeat | Elephant dung at Prague Zoo morphs into a new form: paper

The zoo has joined forces with the country’s famed hand paper mill in Velke Losiny to process the manure to be used in traditional paper-making techniques. Petr Foucek, a director from

Offbeat | Thieves in Sweden appear to blow up building for ATM cash

Regional police spokesman Calle Persson says they were alerted to the explosion in the small southern town of Genarp after 3 a.m. on Monday. They sent a bomb squad to

Offbeat | Advanced research ship may be named ‘Boaty McBoatface’

It’s a name that might suit a rubber ducky, not an extremely expensive state-of-the-art research vessel designed to explore the coldest regions on Earth. Nonetheless the name “Boaty McBoatface” may be

Offbeat | Romania: court affirms prison term for chicken bribes

A court has upheld the prison sentence of a former Romanian lawmaker known as “the chicken baron” who was convicted of bribing voters with 60 tons of packaged, ready-to-fry meat. The

Offbeat | Spanish town looks to revive botched restored fresco success

Borja Mayor Eduardo Arilla said 160,000 people had come to see the fresco since the story of Cecilia Gimenez’s restoration of a Christ fresco in a town sanctuary went viral

Offbeat | Etisalat removes iconic building ‘golf balls’ after storm

The iconic “golf balls” on Etisalat buildings are coming down. The Emirati telecommunications company has taken down the spheres atop their buildings at their headquarters in Abu Dhabi and in Dubai. The

Offbeat | Sydney mom drops baby and toddler from 2nd floor window

A mother trapped by a fire in her Sydney apartment safely dropped her 2-day-old baby and 2-year-old toddler from a second-floor window to rescuers, officials said Friday. The children were uninjured

Offbeat | Jumper leaps safely off EU’s tallest building

Witnesses say a base jumper has safely parachuted from the European Union’s tallest building, the Shard in London, and evaded police by jumping on the subway. Passers-by captured the stunt on

Offbeat | Mayor plans to cross Florida Straits on makeshift raft

A Florida mayor says he’s determined to return home from a visit to Cuba alone in a makeshift raft, despite warnings against the journey from the U.S. Coast Guard. DeBary Mayor

Offbeat | DNA test shows Vietnam twins had different fathers

A scientist and state media say Vietnam has identified an extremely rare set of bi-paternal twins, or twins with different fathers. Prof. Le Dinh Luong, president of the Genetic Association of

Offbeat | Lost goldfish case in Norway closer to being solved

Bodo Police spokesman Tommy Bech says investigators “were very close to solving” the case of the lost goldfish, found abandoned Saturday in a shopping bag at a soccer stadium in

Offbeat | Dog pops up in driver’s seat when semi crashes in Minnesota

Customers at a Minnesota gas station saw a golden Labrador retriever appear to drive the semi across a road last week. Mankato police say the idling truck apparently was put into

Offbeat | Albania offers collectors its Communist-era airborne glory

The 40 obsolete Soviet and Chinese-made aircraft up for sale once roared over what was Europe’s most exclusive airspace. The Albanian pilots were members of an exalted military elite that

Offbeat | Woman brings live tank shell into Austrian police station

One Austrian police station has dodged an explosive situation. The police station in Eisenstadt, east of Vienna, was evacuated Tuesday after a woman walked in with a live tank shell in

Offbeat | Meteor suspected as mystery flash lights up Scottish sky

Scientists say a meteor was the cause of a bright flash of light reported by people across Scotland and northern England. Police Scotland said the force began receiving calls about 6:55

Offbeat | 14 jailed for stealing antiques, rhino horn from UK museums

Fourteen members of a criminal gang have been convicted of stealing millions of pounds worth of rhinoceros horn and Chinese artifacts from British museums and auction houses. A jury at Birmingham

Offbeat | Russian fans present DiCaprio with a homemade Oscar

Residents in Russia’s Far East have made a statue for DiCaprio that bears close resemblance to the Oscar prize and is made from donated metals. Nearly 150 DiCaprio fans from

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