A Manhattan restaurant is offering a hamburger that costs $175.

A New Zealander tried to pay for goods at a service station with marijuana, but was arrested when the man behind him in line was a policeman.

Philippine police officers were instructed Wednesday to smile in public or face suspension in an attempt to spruce up their image as rough and rude.

A parrot from Tokyo flew out of his cage and got lost, but was returned to his owner when he spoke up to police officers and staff at a local veterinary hospital.

A newspaper photographer got a little too close to the action at a state high school track championships and was speared through the leg by a javelin.

A donkey is doing time in southern Mexico for assault and battery.

A nine-year-old girl taken to a hospital with stomach pains was found to be carrying her embryonic twin, doctors in central Greece said last Thursday.

Marine scientists in Australia have discovered a new species of jellyfish.

A baby carriage sold on an Internet auction in Germany came complete with a slightly worrying accessory, a pistol loaded with six bullets.

A radar map of the Martian north pole reveals a four-layer ice structure laid down over a period of five million years, on top of sedimentary rocks hundreds of kilometres thick.