Birds are picking up discarded cigarette butts at a railway station and using the smoke to fumigate their wings of parasites, experts said.

BOSTON – The original pink flamingo lawn ornament, the symbol of kitsch whose obituary nearly was written after its central Massachusetts manufacturer went out of business, is rising phoenixlike from the ashes and taking wing to upstate New York.

If nothing else, this should worry smokers: the radiation dose from radium and polonium found naturally in tobacco can be a thousand times more than that from the caesium-137 taken up by the leaves from the Chernobyl nuclear accident.

Better-for-you snacking has come down to this: fresh fruit all but guaranteed to make kids belch.

Height restrictions posted on a tunnel ar not just a recommendation.  Check out the picture of this sorry driver’s truck.

The key to a happy relationship could be accepting that some miserable times are unavoidable, experts say. Therapists from California State University, Northridge and Virginia Tech say accepting these problems is better than striving for perfection.

Eighty-five per cent of women reported being satisfied with their partner’s penis size, compared to only 55% for men.

Have you heard the one about the dead man laughing? Not every one will think it’s funny, but one inmate with 24 days left to live is holding a humor contest in the grimmest section of Texas’ death row, the cellblock for prisoners with scheduled execution dates.

Japanese researches at the Japan Science and Technology Agency based at the Osaka University introduced CB2 a child-sized android. The 130cm tall and 33kg weighing humanoid robot kid can see, hear and feel. CB2 has 200 tactile sensors embedded in its silicon skin. (w/pics)