One mayor proposed having the coffee shops moved to the edge of the city. He cited that the problem isn't that his country has these coffee shops, rather, it's that the other countries don't.

Malaysia's top Islamic body fresh from banning tomboys issued an edict Saturday that prohibits Muslims from practicing yoga, saying that elements of Hinduism in the ancient Indian exercise could corrupt them.

A teenager in the US state of Florida has committed suicide in front of a live internet audience.

On Sunday, the couple took the healed monarch in a shoebox to Scotty's, a popular and busy truck stop about 35 miles north of Albany. Anybody looking for company on the trip south?

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"We are a man, woman and child," Thomas Beatie told Walters. "It's, it's ironic that we are so different but yet, we're just a family, just the same as anyone else."

An ancestor of Monty Python's famous dead parrot comedy sketch is found in a joke book, dating back to 4th Century Greece. Some of the jokes are strikingly similar to modern ones, with subjects including farts, sex, ugly wives and a dimwit referred to as

I’m no economist, but maybe some of the rich are more concerned with whether Obama is the best man to protect their incomes (by keeping us out of a worst-case depression) than they are with the proportion of that income his administration will claim in