Unknown musings of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, the founding father of independent Czechoslovakia, are believed to have been unearthed.

A driver off Italy’s central coast has made a bid for a new world record for the fastest car on a boat.

A new world record has been set for the largest serving of Nigeria-style jollof rice.

Ghana's fantasy coffins are unique creations that embody the essence of a person's life.

Workers at a Montana animal shelter were evacuated and sent to the hospital after smoke from two pounds of methamphetamine incinerated by FBI agents started to fill the building.

When Alex Babich looks up at the 35-foot sunflower towering over his Fort Wayne, Indiana, backyard, he sees more than just a plant.

Humpty Dumpty took a big fall, and now police are hoping to crack the case.

Scientists have discovered that octopuses don't have a dominant arm, but they more often use their front arms for tasks.

For weeks, sightings of a rare immigrant have been keeping a corner of Austria on its toes.

Hikers who climbed one of Colorado's tallest mountains got more than a sweeping view at the top.

If you have trouble finding dates, spare a thought for Ned, a perfectly nice snail with dire romantic prospects.

A new online platform called wplace invites users to “paint the world” on a massive digital canvas.

A medical museum in Philadelphia is redrawing its policies about collecting and displaying human remains.

A deer hunter has discovered a rare subtropical wood stork in the wilds of Wisconsin.

A senior lawyer in Australia has apologized to a judge for using AI-generated fake quotes and nonexistent case judgments in a murder case.

Paleontologists have identified a new whale species from a 25-million-year-old fossil found on an Australian beach.

Some cottontail rabbits in Fort Collins, Colorado, have been drawing attention because they have wart-like growths on their faces that look like horns.

A 54-pound meteorite from Mars has sold for over $5 million at a New York auction, setting a world record.

A truckload of hot dogs has spilled across a Pennsylvania highway after a crash, clogging the road toward the end of the morning rush hour.

José Caballero turned an inning-ending double play for the Tampa Bay Rays in the fifth inning, then batted in the sixth.

Utility workers in Peru's capital have discovered two pre-Incan tombs while expanding underground gas networks.

Workers at a South Carolina site that once made nuclear bomb parts have found a radioactive wasp nest.

Dozens of dairy cattle are on the move at Michigan State University.

Indian soccer officials say that a job application to coach their national team it apparently received from former Barcelona coach Xavi Hernández was fake.