Offbeat

MOSCOW: A Russian capsule filled with 45 mice and 15 newts along with other small animals returned from a month’s mission in orbit yesterday with data scientists hope will pave the way for a manned

BEIJING: A 28-year-old Chinese man who was kidnapped 23 years ago and sold to a family 1,500 km from his home, has met up with his biological parents again thanks to Google Maps, Hunan TV said.

INDIANA: A waitress has received a $ 446 tip, despite the patron’s bill coming to just $ 5.91.

Two years short of 70, Zhang Guosheng spends his days caring for an 81-year-old fellow villager — washing his clothes, bringing meals to his bed, and keeping him c

ROME: A hard-partying village postman on the Italian island of Sardinia was too “lazy” to deliver post in the morning and instead hoarded some 400 kilos of it in his home, local residents and the

NEW YORK: An unemployed drifter who became an Internet sensation in February after he brandished a hatchet to stop an assault has been charged with murder following his arrest in Philadelphia, police

CHICAGO: A US man who dug a handful of old lottery tickets out of his cookie jar was shocked to find out one of them was worth $ 4.85 million, officials said.

Singaporean housewife Siti Khadijah Abdul Rahman accumulated a few thousand dollars’ worth of gold accessories over the past two decades, but now a rising cost of

As online titans compete to deliver instant maps to smartphones, the Library of Congress in Washington is focusing attention on an antique “cosmology” printe