An ancient grave unearthed in modern-day Israel containing 50 tortoise shells, a human foot and body parts from numerous animals is likely one of the earliest known shaman burial sites.

The pigeon popped in an open door at Pat's Evans Street home, climbed 14 stairs (leaving an incriminating trail of pigeon poo on the way), turned hard left at the top, wandered into the kitchen, and chose a smooth ceramic stove top as the ideal location

Researchers with ARS, Cornell University at Ithaca, N.Y., and South Dakota State University (SDSU) in Brookings want people to photograph every ladybug possible, and to send the photos to Cornell so researchers can inventory the insects.

What has basically been a decades-long slump for most working people -- with wages stagnating and the costs of education, health care and everything else rising -- has spread to those at the top, to the movers and shakers

Brother Nikanor, a Nasdaq broker turned monk, advises former colleagues to put a jar with soil on their desks to remind them where we are all heading and what matters in life.

So if Europe has lost almost as much money as America then why is it not struggling as much? The answer is something called the "traditional banking model".

Protesters chanted "Recall Palin!" as organizers told the crowd to push state legislators to keep after their investigation into the governor's firing of Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan.

A hamster was taken into custody after walking into Cheltenham police station. The brown and white rodent which handed itself into Police Community Support Officer Kevin Rees is not thought to have committed any crime, police said

A group of Danish students have been kicked off Facebook for cooking and eating a cat.

A roe deer with a unicorn-like single horn at the centre of its forehead has been spotted in Prato, Tuscany.