More than 10 million dogs across the country deal with pet separation anxiety — barking, whining and showing signs of stress when their owners leave the house.  But a pill dubbed "puppy Prozac" promises to change that.

Motorists whose cars are stolen are being told they must pay the police at least £105 if they want them to recover their vehicle when it is found and check it for forensic clues.

The Muharraq, Bahrain Municipal Council has initiated a crackdown on what it claims are sexually explicit posters and provocatively dressed mannequins.

Most people in Britain are now familiar with the scruffy, boyish and invariably unshaven features of Roman Abramovich, owner of Chelsea football club, and Russia’s most famous billionaire. This week we learned that Mr Abramovich is one of a growing list of hyper-rich Russians.

It looks like a harmless teenage prank - training shoes dangling from telephone wires in a quiet suburban street. But for residents in this affluent neighbourhood it is a sign of something far more sinister. It tells them violent gangs are operating in their midst.

Nick Argyle’s shop was only big enough to work on a motorcycle, but his only engine belonged in a monster truck. So the 44-year-old British engineer did what any power-mad gearhead would do: He built a 1,000-horsepower, methanol-guzzling, two-wheeled colossus.

She may not be Helen of Troy, but the face of another ancient beauty has nearly launched a "scientific war" between Germany and Egypt.

The annual convention of one of Saskatchewan’s largest labour unions was shut down Friday by its own striking staff, represented by a different union. From our vantage point, its about time they get to drink their own Cool-Aid.

We’ve heard it often - "A picture is worth a 1,000 words".  Well some pictures aren’t even worth 1 word, while others may be worth close to a million words.  We try to select the ones that are quite a ways north of 1,000 words.  Here’s what we found this week.

If you’ve ever been ticketed for speeding or running a red light, you already know that the fine you pay may only be the beginning of your cost.  Here is some great advice on how to tip the scales in your favor.

A testicle is worth more than a fallopian tube - at least according to Swedish authorities. While men who lose a testicle after botched operations in Swedish hospitals get compensation, women who lose a fallopian tube get nothing.

One of the world’s biggest man-made structures, Australia’s Dog Fence, is under threat from amorous wild camels barging into it in search of partners.

Helped by aggressive marketing and a new generation of conservative Roman Catholics, convents around the country say they are experiencing an increase in applicants for the first time in decades. The women are inspired by Pope John Paul II and his defense of Catholic orthodoxy, and are seeking a life that draws them closer to […]

Mass public shootings have become such a part of American life in recent decades that the most dramatic of them can be evoked from the nation’s collective memory in a word or two: Luby’s. Jonesboro. Columbine. And now, Virginia Tech. Since Aug. 1, 1966, when Charles Whitman climbed a 27-story tower on the University of […]