About 15 to 20 canine wave riders are set to vie for top dog in the World Dog Surfing Championships outside San Francisco this weekend.

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.

Dedicated model builders at Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg have been working for almost 25 years to create tiny visions of the trains, cars and cities of the real world.

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.

Dutch rider Thymen Arensman has launched a daring solo attack on a long final climb before holding on grimly to win the 19th stage of the Tour de France.

A 12-year-old Little Leaguer who faced suspension from his team’s first state tournament game for flipping his bat after hitting a home run was allowed to play Thursday night.

New York wildlife officials have closed a trail in the Adirondack Mountains this summer due to a bull moose lingering around the area.

Zookeepers in Prague have become puppeteers to save newly born birds rejected by their parents.

A laundry-stealing cat with expensive taste has puzzled and delighted a neighborhood in Auckland, New Zealand, by committing an unstoppable wave of burglaries from clotheslines and even bedrooms.

A federal appeals court has ruled that MyPillow founder Mike Lindell doesn't have to pay a $5 million award to a software engineer.

Indian police have arrested a man accused of running a fake embassy from a rented building near New Delhi.

Danish artist Thomas Dambo creates giant wooden trolls from recycled materials to promote environmental awareness.

A man was pulled into an MRI machine in New York after he walked into the room wearing a large chain necklace.

Extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner, the first skydiver to fall faster than the speed of sound more than a decade ago, died in a crash Thursday along the eastern coast of Italy.

Ground squirrels have proliferated in Minot, North Dakota's fourth-largest city.

The largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth has sold for just over $5 million at a Sotheby's auction in New York.

Police in India’s southern Karnataka state say they have found a Russian woman and her two young daughters living in isolation in a remote forest cave.

A medieval abbey in Hungary is battling a beetle infestation threatening its ancient book collection.

Sotheby's is putting some rare items up for auction, including what it calls the largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth.

A dinosaur fossil has been found in an unlikely place, a hole drilled under the parking lot of a Colorado museum where dinosaur skeletons are on display.

Thousands of fans have flocked to a Thailand zoo to celebrate the first birthday of Moo Deng, the baby pygmy hippo that's become a social media sensation.

A highway in Fujairah, UAE, now plays Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony as cars drive over special rumble strips.

An Australian domestic airline flight has been delayed for two hours after a stowaway snake was found in the plane’s cargo hold.

More than 200 people across a half-dozen southern states have reported witnessing a fireball streak across the sky, and NASA has determined that it was a meteor.

Minnesota is honoring the golden retriever named Gilbert belonging to a prominent state lawmaker and her husband who were shot to death in their home.

An Alaskan brown bear at the Lake Superior Zoo in northeastern Minnesota has a gleaming new silver-colored canine tooth after a first-of-its-kind procedure.

Music lovers will flock to southwestern England this week for the Glastonbury music festival.

Firefighters rescued a man who got stuck in the chimney of a Connecticut parks building while trying to retrieve his dog.

The Stanley Cup is a little banged up, thanks to the Florida Panthers’ celebration of back-to-back titles.

A Michigan bear is feeling much, much better.

Police in Rome say an 80-year-old man drove a compact luxury Mercedes A Class sedan part way down the city's landmark Spanish Steps before getting stuck.

The dog days of summer arrived at Nationals Park.

Two men who were struck by lightning on a Colorado peak were flown to safety in what is believed to be the highest helicopter rescues on record in the mountainous state.

Thousands and thousands of Pitbull fans dressed up for his London shows this week wearing bald caps, a white shirt, black tie and drawn-on facial hair, before swarming to the city’s O2 Arena.

Pitbull's getting used to looking out at a crowd and seeing thousands of look-alikes staring back at him.

In the heart of Spain’s capital, the famous Sobrino de Botín restaurant proudly holds the title of being the world’s oldest restaurant.

The leaders of a sex-focused women’s wellness company that promoted “orgasmic meditation” have been convicted of federal forced labor charges.

A runaway pet zebra has been captured in Tennessee.

Throngs of people gathered Saturday in a scenic Minneapolis neighborhood for an annual ritual — the sharpening of a gigantic No. 2 pencil.

The Washington Department of Natural Resources has been using one of its firefighting helicopters to haul abandoned boats off an uninhabited island in the southernmost reaches of Puget Sound this week.

An adolescent loggerhead sea turtle named Dilly Dally is back in the Atlantic Ocean, months after having a front flipper amputated at a Florida turtle hospital.

An Australian woman on trial for the triple murder of her estranged husband's relatives and the attempted murder of another has told the Supreme Court in the state of Victoria that she carefully planned the July 2023 lunch where her dinner guests were poisoned with death cap mushrooms.

Visitors to historic sites in North Dakota will soon have flush toilets available.

About 250 million honeybees took to the skies when a commercial truck carrying them overturned in Washington state near the Canadian border.

A New Zealand flag printed with the words “please walk on me” and displayed on the floor of an art gallery in the city of Nelson has been removed from display after protests.

An Alaska man escaped unscathed after being trapped by a 700-pound boulder for three hours during a hike in a remote area last weekend.

Videos featuring emotional moments with hyper-realistic baby dolls have sparked both online fascination and political debate in Brazil, with lawmakers even bringing the lifelike dolls into legislatures.

Harrison Ruffin Tyler died on Sunday.

There are times when the Scripps National Spelling Bee transforms into a geography bee.

Twice per year, New Yorkers and visitors are treated to a phenomenon known as Manhattanhenge, when the setting sun aligns with the Manhattan street grid and sinks below the horizon framed in a canyon of skyscrapers.

A large elephant seal took a wrong turn and was seen lumbering along a street in South Africa on Tuesday.

An Oregon man who quit his job at a tire company and liquidated his retirement savings to set sail for Hawaii with his cat reached his destination Saturday.

The top dog in a race among the six iconic Wienermobiles from Oscar Mayer proved to be the one representing the Southeast.

It’s called the Palm Dog contest, but the winner of the annual Cannes Film Festival tradition was a Panda.

Pato O'Ward hopes spending the morning milking a cow will help him finally clear out the negative karma keeping him from winning the Indianapolis 500.

A monk has been hospitalized after an altercation at a monastic community in Greece, linked to a longstanding religious dispute.

In New Zealand’s Parliament, every legislator has the chance to advance a proposed law, no matter how unpopular, thanks to an unusual lottery where bills are selected by random draw from a cookie tin.

A woman who was able to sneak onto a flight from New York to Paris without a boarding pass last year has been convicted of a stowaway charge.

There's another artificial intelligence blunder impacting news organizations.

A pet kangaroo was on the loose in Colorado.

A pack of veterinarians clamber over hefty metal crates of animals they load one-by-one onto a fleet of semi-trucks.

More than 12,000 chicks at a Delaware distribution center were found left in a USPS truck for more than three days.

A man who tried to help a burglar cash in from the theft of a gold toilet was spared prison on Monday after a British judge said he had been taken advantage of by the thieves.

Stars in glamorous gowns often peacock on the Cannes Film Festival red carpet, but one attendee Saturday night literally came as a bird.

Heather Donahue starred in the low-budget hit movie “The Blair Witch Project” and has been embroiled in a spat with locals in her tiny Maine town after she started marking trees to help people find their way in the dense forests.

Police in Slovenia are investigating the disappearance of a bronze statue of U.S. first lady Melania Trump that was sawed off and carried away from her hometown.

The feijoa, not the kiwi, is the unofficial fruit of New Zealand, but it remains unknown to much of the world.

The Cannes Film Festival red carpet is perhaps the most rigidly controlled red carpet in the world.

It is one of Alaska’s favorite Mother’s Day traditions, getting up close and personal with animals that have survived the ice age.

Liam and Olivia have, for a sixth year together, topped the list of names for babies born in the U.S. in 2024.

A Chicago-born cardinal walks into a conclave.

Former Celtics great Paul Pierce was so confident in his team in Game 2 against the Knicks, he said he’d walk to work, “in my robe, bare feet,” if they lost for a second straight game in the second-round series.

New Zealand is still one of a few countries in the world where sheep outnumber people.

The sight of a large, carnivorous New Zealand snail laying an egg from its neck has been captured on camera for the first time.

Baseball players from major leaguers to Little Leaguers are using sliding mitts as a form of self-expression, even if at some levels, they're not needed at all.

May the 4th be with you.

The backcountry sport of burro racing is a grueling feat of endurance that tests the sudden urge to stand still.

Size differences didn't cause any issues when the world's tallest and smallest dogs met up for a playdate last month.

A slab of Brooklyn wall that the artist Banksy emblazoned with a bandaged, heart-shaped balloon is emerging after more than a decade in storage.

During the War of 1812, residents of Rockport, Massachusetts, hurled rocks at British soldiers using their stockings as slings.

A runaway kangaroo shut down a stretch of interstate in Alabama on Tuesday.

A New York zoo is hand-feeding a baby vulture with a realistic bird puppet to ensure it survives to maturity.

Police in Japan say that climber who was airlifted with altitude sickness from near the peak of Japan’s Mount Fuji last week returned to the slope and was rescued for a second time just four days later.

A rare perfect break of 147 at the world snooker championship has earned a lucky fan $33,000.

The Los Angeles Kings have brought back the harmonica-playing senior citizens whose rendition of the national anthem caused a sensation before their playoff opener.

In one small step for robot-kind — thousands of them, really — humanoid robots ran alongside actual humans in a half-marathon in the Chinese capital.

For Sonia Pérez, stepping into Havana’s Doña Alicia restaurant felt like entering a movie.

A 24-year-old American YouTuber who visited a restricted island in the Indian Ocean last month with a Diet Coke as offering for an isolated tribe has been further detained.

In this episode of The Story Behind the AP Story, we hear from Lauran Neergaard and Shelby Lum, who have been following the journey of animal to human transplants, or xenotransplants, over the last few years.

Residents of a small Michigan community stood side by side to help a local bookstore move 9,100 books — one by one — from its former site to a new location about a block away.

At the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, a herd of African elephants was caught on video running over to protect their young by encircling them during a 5.2 magnitude earthquake.

A beloved pet tortoise named Myrtle has been reunited with its family in Mississippi weeks after disappearing during a deadly tornado outbreak.

German police in Cologne have detained five Frenchmen and a Belgian woman who had tried to climb the city’s famous cathedral.

Animal lovers now have a place to hang out with the “it” animals of the moment.

Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was pecked by an ostrich at a wildlife park in Texas.

An altar from the Teotihuacan culture, at the pre-Hispanic heart of what became Mexico, has been discovered in Tikal National Park in Guatemala, the center of Mayan culture, demonstrating the interaction between the two societies.