A long-hidden Picasso portrait of muse Dora Maar has sold for 32 million euros at an auction in Paris.
Spanish police have arrested seven people suspected of stealing over 1,100 chairs from outdoor seating areas at restaurants and bars.
During an annual fall event where giant elephants smash massive pumpkins, a baby elephant was too small to crush the largest gourds, which weigh around 1,000 pounds.
Dogs dressed up as everything from Elvis Presley to Scooby Dooโs Mystery Machine went trick-or-treating in Michigan.
The Big 12 fined Kansas $25,000 for coach Lance Leipoldโs statement that a pocketknife was thrown at his staff during the Jayhawksโ game at Texas Tech last weekend.
Protesters are pedaling through Portland's streets wearing nothing or close to it to rally against the Trump administration.
In the contest for best scrapple sculpture in Philadelphia on Friday it was the โMush Pushโ fashioned from the regionally popular pork breakfast meat that got Patrick Moserโs entry over the goal line.
Century-old wreaths made from human hair fill the walls of Leilaโs Hair Museum, and glass cases overflow with necklaces and watch bands made from the locks of the dead.
Police in Northern California pulled over a self-driving Waymo taxi after it made an illegal U-turn.
New Zealandโs annual bird election has crowned the kฤrearea, or New Zealand falcon, as Bird of the Year.
Residents of a San Francisco Bay Area city are on the lookout for an aggressive squirrel that has sent at least two people to the emergency room.
When Alex Babich looks up at the 35-foot sunflower towering over his Fort Wayne, Indiana, backyard, he sees more than just a plant.
A dying octopus in a Southern California aquarium is receiving an outflowing of love and well wishes as she spends her final days pouring her last energy into caring for her eggs.
Thousands of redheads from all over the world are gathering in the southern Dutch city of Tilburg for a once-a-year festival to celebrate their flaming locks.
Finland's air force is moving to remove swastikas from its flags, partly due to the awkwardness it creates with Western allies.
Thousands of people from around the world seeking a uniquely messy thrill have spent a wild hour flinging bushels of overripe tomatoes at each other.
A pair of ospreys have disrupted the fall sports season at a Minnesota high school by nesting on a light pole on the football field.
Some cottontail rabbits in Fort Collins, Colorado, have been drawing attention because they have wart-like growths on their faces that look like horns.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is investigating an incident in which thieves stole about $7,000 worth of Labubu dolls, the agency said.
A writer from Maine, Sharon Kitchens has turned her passion for Stephen King's books into a published work.
Nรฉlida Pรฉrez feeds street cats in Old Havana, but Cuba's worsening economic crisis is making it increasingly difficult.
A Seattle Kraken ice hockey player and the team's mascot had a close call with a brown bear during a video shoot in Alaska.
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.
Josรฉ Caballero turned an inning-ending double play for the Tampa Bay Rays in the fifth inning, then batted in the sixth.
Indian soccer officials say that a job application to coach their national team it apparently received from former Barcelona coach Xavi Hernรกndez 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 teamโs 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.
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.
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.
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 Indiaโs southern Karnataka state say they have found a Russian woman and her two young daughters living in isolation in a remote forest cave.
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 Beethovenโs Ninth Symphony as cars drive over special rumble strips.
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.
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.
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 cityโs O2 Arena.
In the heart of Spainโs capital, the famous Sobrino de Botรญn restaurant proudly holds the title of being the worldโs oldest restaurant.
The leaders of a sex-focused womenโs wellness company that promoted โorgasmic meditationโ have been convicted of federal forced labor charges.
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.
