With a winning bid of just $1.75, a Chicago woman has won an auction for an abandoned home in Saginaw

Al Palmer has a slim build, an easy smile, and a near-insatiable hunger for human flesh.

"Montauk Monster," the dangerous, weird-looking and still-unidentified creature that washed ashore in the Hamptons this summer, may be only the latest in a longer line of weird unidentified monsters washing asho

THEY say there's a ghost of a lady, tear-stained and dressed in black mourning, who haunts the Bank of England, or to be more precise, Prince's Street, the road running up the side.

As part of a statewide fruit tree-planting tour, members of the nonprofit group Common Vision travel in three vegetable oil-powered buses, visiting 25 cities and planting 1,000 fruit trees in hopes of teaching urban students about sustainable ecology and

A teenage girl has been forced to move schools after she reportedly gave teaching staff hash cakes, it was revealed today. Two teaching assistants were taken to hospital after eating the cakes taken into Wortley High School, in Leeds, by the girl on Sept

Face it, climbing Mount Everest is a bit old hat and, what's more, it takes quite some time. So thought Holly Budge, who has became the first person to skydive over the world's highest mountain. The 29-year-old leapt out of a plane at 9,000m (29,500ft)

At least 500,000 gallons of oil -- nearly 12,000 barrels -- spilled into the ocean and tidal wetlands along the Texas and Louisiana coasts after Hurricane Ike

Employees of a Victoria's Secret in Florida say a woman entered the store and went directly to the new bras cabinet and stuffed 160 undergarments into a shopping bag before running out of the store Lee County Sheriff's deputies are investigating what

A sheriff's deputy accused of killing his ex-girlfriend in Kentucky taunted state police in an e-mail exchange Monday, saying he was going to "make them earn their money" in their search for him.