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.