JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- South African police will crack down hard on anybody throwing old fridges from high-rise buildings during the New Year's holiday.
NEW YORK, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- If there is one performance that demands to be seen on the New York stage this season it is Kevin Kline's deeply conceived characterization of Shakespeare's tosspot philosopher Falstaff in a production that combines the two "Henry IV" plays into one seaml
Sick woman finds 15 doctors on her flight ... Priest admits to stealing for mistress ... Packrat buried two days under books ... Trucker balks at theft of chickens
COLOGNE, Germany, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- German publisher Taschen Books next month will release a 75-pound, $3,000 book about the life and times of boxing great Muhammad Ali.
LONDON, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Having a heart attack on a trans-Atlantic flight is risky at best, but a British woman had 15 cardiologists rush to her aid, The Sun reported from London.
ORANGE PARK, Fla., Dec. 31 (UPI) -- A former priest accused of swindling thousands of dollars from a Florida church has pleaded guilty, the Times-Union reported Wednesday.
NEW YORK, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- A New York man is recovering Wednesday from being buried for two days under hundreds of pounds of books and magazines he hoarded in his apartment.
TORONTO, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Toronto police are searching for two armed men who hijacked a tractor-trailer load of frozen chicken from a trucker in Montreal.
LONDON, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Days after fatally mauling one of Queen Elizabeth's prized corgis, Princess Anne's bull terrier Florence has attacked one of the queen's maids.
A book-loving pack rat tried to squeeze even more tomes into his tiny New York City apartment and ended up buried under an avalanche of books, magazines and other stuff.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Music, always prominent at the Rose Parade, is the main theme of the 2004 parade, with Oscar-winning composer John Williams serving as grand marshal.
Hunters shoot killer Australian crocodile ... M&M's to go black-and-white, for a while ... Castro resembles Hitler in news photo ... Marathon 'Moby Dick' reading scheduled
NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Herman Melville fans won't want to miss a two-day annual marathon reading of his classic seafaring novel, "Moby Dick," in Massachusetts this weekend.
An average homeowner spends some 25 minutes a day looking for things -- that's the equivalent of wasting nearly a week each year just trying to find stuff in their own home.
Scotland embarks on ancient Hogmanay ... Celebrities to voice Moscow subway system ... 50-foot python caught in Indonesia ... German psychiatrist says cannibal not nuts
NEW YORK, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- The Metropolitan Opera has staged two 19th century operatic rarities this season in the hope of bolstering ticket sales at one of the company's most difficult times financially since the Great Depression, the most recent staging being Hector Berlioz's com
KASSEL, Germany, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- A German psychiatrist testified that a self-confessed cannibal who videotaped himself eating his victim is not mentally ill, the BBC reported Monday.
CURUGSEWU, Indonesia, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Villagers on the Indonesian island of Java have caught alive a python that is almost 50 feet long and weighs nearly 1,000 pounds, The Australian reported.
NEW YORK, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Broadway shows are determined to survive the post-holiday theater-going slump in January and February by slashing their ticket prices, often making it cheaper to see a show on the Great White Way than off-Broadway, where tickets traditionally are more con
TAIPEI, Taiwan, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Taiwan has had a bad month for the Miss Taiwan pageant, with one in serious debt to a loan shark and another with a resume as a bar flirt.
U.S. President Barack Obama signs the Ultralight Aircraft Smuggling Prevention Act of 2012 as former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, her husband Mark Kelly (R) and Vice President Joe Biden look on in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC on February 10, 2012. UPI/Pat Benic...
