Ala. boy fakes kidnapping to hide bad grades

An 11-year-old boy gets high marks in storytelling after staging a hoax to cover up his bad grades. Police said the boy faked his kidnapping Friday to avoid bringing home a bad report card, saying that a man with a pistol snatched him after he left Ed White Middle School. The boy said the man forced him into a "beat-up car" and threatened to kill him.

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A 42-year-old Mandarin woman who stopped to help a stranded motorist early Tuesday was robbed at knifepoint in the 5200 block of Shad Road by a woman with a small child.

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Antelopes aren't known for being the most intelligent of animals. But in stunning scenes, captured by an amateur photographer, one impala buck faked its own death to avoid being eaten by a pursuing cheetah.

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India's art world is reeling from one of its most embarrassing forgery cases today after S.H. Raza, one of the country's foremost artists, inaugurated an exhibition of his paintings in Delhi – only to discover that most were fakes.

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Excerpt: A frantic two-day search for a six-month-old child ended Friday as a hoax -- with police arresting the 22-year-old woman who spun the tale. Meagan McCormic had told police her child, Riley Archer Buchness, had disappeared Tuesday afternoon with a nanny named Camille.

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When the government has bigger fish to fry, informal economic activity (even to the scale of large industries) can thrive. This short article describes the surface of DVD and other pirating in Shanghai.

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Specialists warn that museums in the US and Europe will now have to re-examine their own sculptures

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Auction website eBay has been ordered by a court in France to pay €40 million (£31.5 million) to the designer goods group that owns Louis Vuitton, Christian Dior, Givenchy, Kenzo and Guerlain for allowing fake bags, lipsticks and designer clothes to be sold on the site.

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From cars to CDs, houses to handbags, these days you can buy almost anything on the online marketplace eBay - and millions of us do.

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Imagine that your parents didn't beat you up, that you were only slightly bullied at school, that you only get pissed from time to time and that you haven't got a fatal illness. How does that make you feel? Inadequate, I should think.

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From handbags to ham, Italy has produced some of the finest goods - and counterfeits - on sale. Now police have broken a ring of talented mechanics who have turned down-at-heel cars into replicas of Ferrari sports cars for sale at rock bottom prices to gullible motorists.

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INDIANAPOLIS -- Workers who think they need a day off but don't want to use a vacation day are increasingly turning to Web sites for excuses to give their employers, and they're paying money to do it.

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As the economy weakens, consumers hunt for bargains. Sometimes, however, a bargain can be a literal steal, and a dangerous one at that.

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Does anyone still believe that the camera never lies? With Photoshop, you can make a picture speak any thousand words you want. It takes a cynical attitude and a skilled eye to tell whether they are real.

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In 2003, Los Angeles Times photographer Brian Walski caused an uproar when it was discovered that his picture of a British soldier yelling at fleeing residents in Iraq, published prominently by many U.S. newspapers, had been altered.

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As a son and his elderly parents learn their fate for faking artworks and artefacts worth millions of pounds over nearly two decades, we look at what their motivation was.

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...These are all real subject lines for spam messages I've received today alone.

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