Like tartan, bagpipes, and shortbread Scotland’s Loch Ness Monster is as much an emblem as a tourist draw.

MINNEAPOLIS – An errant computer keystroke led the state to accidentally issue a $2.5 million check to a school counselor — who spent thousands on cars, jewelry and electronics, prosecutors said.

Team-building, adult playtime for 15 minutes each week at a Bristol company helped restore workers’ morale.

Almost half of Rotterdam’s coffee shops will be forced to stop selling cannabis because they are too close to secondary schools, Dutch news agency ANP reported on Thursday.

While millions of women are snapping up age-defying skin creams, the latest miracle cure for a sagging face has just arrived – nightingale poo.

Can you imagine these products being marketed overseas? With so much concern about “the children” these days we doubt that fake beer for kids would make it past the pitch stage at any beverage company. Well, almost any company.

Researchers at the University of South Australia say that children are going to bed half-an-hour later than they did 20 years ago. Study author Dr Jim Dollman says although children are waking up at about the same time at around 7:00am, they are now going to bed later.

At first glance, the catalog’s pitch for lawn chairs appears ordinary: A seated man and woman relax near a tree-lined lake shore, enjoying drinks. But look closer. "Supports up to 800 lbs,” reads the text next to the man’s $139.95 lawn chair.

Wine consumption in the US has nearly doubled in the last decade, while beer sales have been pretty much stagnant, growing less than 1 percent since 2000.

The local Internet scene is heating up for automotive dealers and sellers, according to a recent report from Borrell Associates. Local online advertising by automakers, dealers and individual sellers will escalate to $4.2 billion in 2011, up from $2.3 billion in 2006.

China is known for its incredible skill to be able to copy just about anything. All they need is one sample and they can very quickly reproduce an exact duplicate for about 1/10 the price.
From sports logos like Nike to other popular websites like Google and Youtube, China has not stopped with simply products [...]

Local broadcast TV ad revenues for the first quarter of 2007 were down 3% from the same period in 2006, according to a Television Bureau of Advertising analysis of TNS Media Intelligence/CMR estimates for the top 100 markets’ shows.  (Be sure to join us for the Future of Cable TV on June 4th)

Sometimes a simple little sign will change our day.  Here are some crazy signs that are sure to give us a new outlook on life.

PayPlay has just launched "the world’s largest MP3 download store" — a store selling more than 1.3 million indie music tracks, with a search engine that allows you to search for your fave artists and get similar indie artists in the catalog. Previous to this PayPlay sold only DRM-crippled WMAs for $0.77, the MP3s sell [...]

Miracle boy Gregg Warburton can deliver a killer karate kick and cutting blow on his opponents – despite having two artificial legs and a small, deformed hand.

Women ages 18 to 34 account for 27% more of total time spent online in the UK than men their same age, according to Nielsen//NetRatings data released in May 2007.

Mexican farmers are setting ablaze fields of blue agave, the cactus-like plant used to make the fiery spirit tequila, and resowing the land with corn as soaring U.S. ethanol demand pushes up prices.

Powerful, loud mowers have been showing lawns who’s boss for decades. But now contraptions that couldn’t cut butter without a good shove are quietly — really quietly — making a comeback.

British scientists have found that children who drink plenty of apple juice may be less likely to develop symptoms of asthma, a chronic disease that affects airways.

Without going through the hassle of removing bottle-tops, staff at security checkpoints are unable to see the difference between a bottle of drinking water and a potential molotov cocktail – the solution has commonly been to prevent people from passing through checkpoints with bottles. Now there’s a device that can instantly detect whether a bottle [...]

Nearly six in 10 adult consumers say they watch online video, according to the Kelsey Group’s "Online Video: A New Local Advertising Paradigm" report. More than half of adult consumers also do something in response to watching the video, such as visiting a Web site, going to a physical location or making a purchase.

A Dutch broadcaster will air a show this week in which a terminally ill woman selects a recipient for her kidneys from three contestants, despite government calls for the programme to be scrapped.

The government plans to explore planets other than Earth after a decade of preparation and studies of technology associated with rockets and satellites.

Dyslexia is a social fig leaf used by middle-class parents who fear their children will be labelled as low achievers, a professor has claimed.

Neighbors were completely surprised to learn that when modest-living Hector Guy Di Stefano and his wife Doris died, they left a $264 million estate to be divided equally among 8 charities, among them them the Salvation Army and Greenpeace. However, there was a snag…