Ebay has changed the auction system. Instead of using a customers ID, they now us numbers, like bidder1, bidder 2, and it is utterly boring.

The original cape which was worn by actor Christopher Lee in the 1958 vampire film, Dracula, has been found in a London fancy dress store.

Great-nephew wants to determine if escape artist was poisoned by enemies (namely the so-called " Spiritualists" whose seances the magician relished debunking in many of his stage shows) .

The company chairman of a fictitious giant ant-breeding project in China has been sentenced to death for running a scam.

LONDON (AP) - Johnny Depp is making a film about a former Russian spy whose poisoning death in London has touched off an international mystery, the trade magazine Variety reports.

Irreverent, morbid sense of humour ? Certainly. Still , not to take this very negative period in German history lightly but even in times such as this, perhaps it's a good thing to be able to laugh at the past and move on to a more positive future.

Illusionist David Blaine has begun his next stunt, spinning inside a gyroscope above the streets of New York.

Due to grassroots persistence , The House of Representatives finally , unanimously approved a measure protecting wild horses from slaughter that was previously thwarted , ironically by the USDA, who used private funds to allow the slaughter to continue.

Why would a company once known for its animal-friendly products merge with such a large cosmetics company as L'Oreal , which has a notorious reputation for being quite the opposite ? Blinded by dollar signs, perhaps? They wouldn't be the first , surely.