Alabama judge orders man to jail for sagging pants
A central Alabama judge ordered a man to serve three days in jail for contempt of court for wearing so-called saggy pants.
Twenty-year-old LaMarcus D. Ramsey was in Autauga County Circuit Court on Tu
Nude maid service raising eyebrows in Texas city
Police in this staunchly conservative West Texas city are keeping close tabs on a young entrepreneur's recently opened cleaning service that offers nude maids.
Lubbock police Sgt. Jonathan Stewart sa
It's everyone for himself on sinking ships
A hundred years after the Titanic sank, two Swedish researchers on Thursday said when it comes to sinking ships, male chivalry is ‘a myth’ and more men generally survive such disasters than women and
Syria scuttles truce plan with new demands
A U.N.-brokered plan to stop the bloodshed in Syria effectively collapsed on Sunday after President Bashar Assad's government raised new, last-minute demands that the country's largest rebel group swi
Rocket in position at launch pad in North Korea
North Korean space officials have moved all three stages of a long-range rocket into position for a controversial launch, vowing Sunday to push ahead with their plan in defiance of international warni
Ahead of nuclear talks, Iran floats compromise
Iran's nuclear chief signaled Tehran's envoys may bring a compromise offer to the talks this week with world powers: Promising to eventually stop producing its most highly enriched uranium, while not
Mike Wallace, '60 Minutes' interrogator, dies
"Mike Wallace is here to see you."
The ‘60 Minutes’ journalist's reputation as a pitiless inquisitor was so fearsome that it was often said that those were the most dreaded words in the English langu
Iraq: Video appears to show top Saddam deputy
A video posted online Saturday purports to show Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, the highest ranking member of Saddam Hussein's ousted regime still at large, lashing out against Iraq's Shiite-led government.
Cruise ship to retrace voyage of Titanic
A cruise carrying relatives of some of the more than 1,500 people who died aboard the Titanic nearly 100 years ago set sail from England on Sunday to retrace the ship's voyage, including a visit to th
Huh? US and British English to collide at Olympics
The lorry driver taking kit to the football pitch was so knackered he pulled into the lay-by near the petrol station for a quick kip.
Huh?
For American readers, that translates as: The truck driver