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TOKYO (AP) - Japan's oldest man, Tomoji Tanabe, blew out candles on his birthday cake with his 3-year-old great-grandchild at his home in southern Japan on Monday, celebrating his 111th birthday, his family said.

"Thanks to all of you, I am living," Tanabe told relatives and local officials who ...

VIENNA, Austria (AP) - The world's tallest man said Sunday he was happy with his height but used to wish he were "normal."

At seven feet, 8.95 inches, Xi Shun, of Mongolia, has held the world record as the globe's tallest living man since January 15, 2005, according to London-based Guinness World ...

MIAMI (AP) - A man's body floated up near where a crew was filming a scene for the crime show "CSI: Miami," authorities said.

The body washed up early Friday in Biscayne Bay at Bicentennial Park, which film crews were using as a helicopter staging ground for aerial shots of a fictional offshore ...

GREENSBURG, Ind. (AP) - Jay Stokes celebrated his 50th birthday by jumping out of an airplane - 640 times.

The veteran skydiver did it to break his own world record of 534 jumps in a 24-hour period. There was no immediate word when his new record might be confirmed by Guinness World Records.

"I ...

HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) - Robert Breinig was ready to cram down the hot dogs. He had kept his stomach empty for nearly two days in preparation for the hot-dog-eating contest at the Kansas State Fair.

But it took just nine franks until Breinig suffered what veterans of the competitive eating circuit ...

MADRID, Spain (AP) - Spanish police officers settling in for a video presentation on how to get promoted to sergeant were instead shown footage from a hard-core pornographic film, officials said Tuesday.

Howling laughter rippled through the auditorium where 120 Madrid police officers had gathered ...

SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - A 50-year-old British tourist was rescued by police for the second time in just over a week Tuesday after twice getting lost in Australia's rugged outback.

The man, whose identity was not released, sparked a major air and ground search last Tuesday after he called police ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - A nurse returning home from work discovered an intruder armed with a hammer in her home and strangled him with her bare hands, police said.

Susan Kuhnhausen, 51, ran to a neighbour's house after the confrontation Wednesday night. Police found the body of Edward Haffey 59, a ...

LONDON, Ont. (CP) - Roxanne Toussaint says she loves her kids, but hates their attitude, and hopes a strike will make them change their ways.

The London, Ontario mother has launched a strike against her children and has erected a tent and a sign on her front lawn that reads, "Mom On Strike ...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - Die-hard fans of Argentina's most famous soccer club now can take their loyalty to the grave.

Boosters of the Boca Juniors unveiled a private cemetery plot on Thursday where former players, managers and the most rabid fans can be laid to rest.

In Argentina, where ...

BRATTLEBORO, Vt. (AP) - Public nudity isn't new to this bastion of bohemia, but it usually bares itself in more subtle places than the downtown parking lot.

This summer, a group of teenagers has disrobed near restaurants, bookstores and the town's many galleries, igniting a debate about whether ...

SOUTH SALT LAKE, Utah (AP) - A 75-year-old woman ran after a man who stole her purse, got it back and gave him a tongue-lashing - and $3.

Betty Horton said the man apologized to her and said he was broke.

"I said, 'Why didn't you just ask me for some change? I would have helped you. I would have ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - George Johnson, considered California's oldest living person at 112 and the state's last surviving First World War veteran, had experts shaking their heads over his junk food diet.

"He had terrible, bad habits. He had a diet largely of sausages and waffles," Dr. Stephen Coles ...

I think it must have been a slow news day because everyone was making a bigger deal of it then anything else. I just wonder how her brother's girlfriend will respond to Kyra saying she all those things about her..lol

NEW YORK (AP) - Kyra Phillips, anchor of CNN's Live From, unwittingly upstaged President George W. Bush's speech in New Orleans with an on-air analysis of her husband and the marriage of her brother - all live from a CNN ladies room.

Unaware that her wireless microphone was live during her break ...