A rare Leica camera fetched a world-record price of € 336,000 ($491,000) for cameras of its type at auction in Vienna today.

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have been very, very good for these private contractors. Here’s a list of the top 100 private contractors, as reported by The Center for Public Integrity’s "Windfalls of War II."

In 1998, British eco-pioneer Rishi Sowa decided to build his own private island using nets filled with empty plastic bottles. He poured sand and planted trees, and called it Spiral Island.

A rural New London man, apparently upset with his wife for not buying beer after he came home from hunting, allegedly shot one of the family’s two pet goats.

The king of Spain’s recent undiplomatic outburst at the Venezuelan president has become a ringtone hit across Spain.