got hangovers?! call hangover helpers

BOULDER, Colo. – Your head aches, you're hungry and your house is littered with sticky plastic cups. Who ya gonna call? Hangover Helpers.

boy donates life savings for fire station restoration

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – A 5-year-old West Virginia boy has donated his life savings — nearly $46 in change — to help rebuild a volunteer fire station that burned down in an Oct. 1 electrical fire.

monkeys appointed as station masters

Hojomachi Station in Hyogo prefecture, Japan, has taken the bull by the horns (or something like that), and hired two monkeys as stationmasters in an effort to attract more customers to the floundering railroad line.

ownership of the sun claimed by spanish woman

MADRID (AFP) – After billions of years the Sun finally has an owner -- a woman from Spain's soggy region of Galicia said Friday she had registered the star at a local notary public as being her property.

Angeles Duran, 49, told the online edition of daily El Mundo she took the step in September after reading about an American man who had registered himself as the owner of the moon and most planets in our Solar System.

meet the new member of the disaster rescue squad

– Fri Nov 19, 3:26 am ET

TOKYO (AFP) – A Japanese police department on Friday appointed a chihuahua as a member of its disaster rescue squad, where it will serve alongside retrievers and German shepherds.