- Guess founder Marciano buys 84.37-carat white diamond for $16 million
- GENEVA - An 84.37-carat white diamond touted by Sotheby's for its size and beauty sold at auction Wednesday to Guess clothing company founder Georges Marciano for just under US$16.2 million.
- Staff problem leads to empty BA flights from UK to U.S. and Canada
- LONDON - British Airways has been flying planes from Britain to North America this month without a single passenger aboard because of a cabin crew shortage, the airline said Wednesday.
- Employees behind bars: Indiana law firm converts old jail to office space
- EVANSVILLE, Ind. - Visitors to Mike Woods' law practice are greeted with a sight not often found in legal offices: a jail cell.
- Indian girl born with 8 limbs makes first public appearance after surgery
- BANGALORE, India - Nearly a week after surgeons removed the extra limbs from an Indian girl born with four arms and four legs, the bright-eyed 2-year-old made her first public appearance Tuesday.
- Indian man marries dog in attempt to ward off curse after mistreating canines
- NEW DELHI - A man in southern India married a female dog in a traditional Hindu ceremony as an attempt to atone for stoning two other dogs to death.
- Clinton library releases files on UFOs at flying saucer buff's request
- LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas - In a move sure to provide fodder for conspiracy theorists, the Clinton Library has withheld e-mails with subject lines like X-Files and Area 51 from a batch of documents recently released at a UFO buff's request.
- Cows make a break for it at McDonald's parking lot in northern Utah
- WEST HAVEN, Utah - McDonald's? The burger joint? Stampede!
- Parents resolve dispute over daughter's detentions for hugging
- MASCOUTAH, Ill. - Maybe they hugged it out - school officials resolved their dispute with the parents of a 13-year-old girl given detention for hugging her friends.
- Ont. couple wins $13K from casino, $18.5M in lottery in just one night
- TORONTO - Luck struck twice for a couple from Caledon, Ont., in just one hour after they won a casino jackpot then a lottery jackpot.