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On one of his first days in America, Hussein Albayati visited the Statue of Liberty.
A Salt Lake City woman who held a Guinness World Record for her long fingernails before they broke off in a car crash says it was the most dramatic event of her life. But Lee Redmond, who lost the fingernails in February, says it's now much easier to do things and her hands seem to fly with the weight of the nails gone.
During most of his high school football career, Baquer Sayed broke the Ramadan fast during halftime, when the stadium lights began to flood the field after sundown.
President Barack Obama's campaign for a health care overhaul is an intense installment in a long-running story, dating to Theodore Roosevelt in 1912.
Nine years after vanishing from outside her Australian family's home, Muffy the dog was found alive and well this month in another backyard — 1,200 miles away — officials said Thursday.
There's at least one guy with a new high school diploma who's not worrying about getting into college or finding a job.
NASCAR driver Carl Long's suspension has been reduced to eight races from a record 12, but his record $200,000 fine remains.
Qwest Communications International Inc. on Monday said it is calling off the auction for its nationwide long-haul data and telephone network.
Although the National Stock Car Racing Commission said it was tempting to give Carl Long and his crew chief penalties they could "more-readily bear," the driver's appeal was denied Tuesday.
Looking around at this party to celebrate the newest Star Trek film, no one can deny that these fans are hard core.
NASCAR has suspended driver Carl Long for the next 12 Sprint Cup races and fined crew chief Charles Swing $200,000, the largest penalty in the sport's history.
A British soldier who lost the use of his legs in a rocket attack in Iraq has completed the London Marathon, two weeks after starting the race.
Officials have agreed to correct spelling errors in road signs pointing to a central Massachusetts lake with a 45-letter name. Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg in Webster has one of the world's longest place names. It's been spelled many different ways over the years. Some locals have given up and simply call it Lake Webster.
A 13-year-old Virginia boy apparently loaded his family's pickup truck with food, clothes and his dog, hitched up a trailer with two horses in tow and drove nearly 1,300 miles to Texas, police said. The teen's parents found him safe Friday.
A Utah woman listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for her long fingernails has lost them in a car crash. Lee Redmond of Salt Lake City sustained serious but non-life-threatening injuries in the accident Tuesday.
SYDNEY, Australia — An Italian adventurer who spent 10 months rowing more than 9,500 nautical miles (18,000 kilometers) across the Pacific was rescued a mere 65 nautical miles short of his goal — Australia — after rough weather sapped him of his final shreds of energy.
Chuck Long spent the last 4 1/2 weeks presumably thinking his job as San Diego State's football coach was safe through next season.
President George W. Bush greeted Mexico President Felipe Calderon at the White House for a working dinner on the financial crisis with a cheery "Hey, amigo, what's up?"
A New York City couple has traveled halfway around the world in the name of civic duty.
A library book checked out from a Tulsa high school in 1947 has been returned — with a $250 check to cover overdue fees. Holland Hall School librarian Betty Niver says the book "New Word Analysis: Or School Etymology of English Derivative Words" was mailed to the school by Martha McCabe Jarrett.
A Maltese dog named Max is headed home to Florida after he was spotted in Chicago — 1,000 miles from where he vanished. Richard Gonzalez had reported a pet theft after Max disappeared several months ago from his daughter's yard in Brandon, Fla. Gonzalez says he thought that Max would never get far. But the pooch was identified in Chicago by an implanted microchip.
Nearly the length of a human arm, a recently identified stick bug from the island of Borneo is the world's longest insect, British scientists said Thursday.
Nancy and Ricardo Garcia loaded their GMC Yukon with gas cans, clothes, tortillas, beer and the many files they took when they fled ahead of Hurricane Ike.
Signs of Renewal on Long IslandThe "Island" beyond the borough of Queens consists of numerous borders and government entities, including two counties, countless townships, villages and hamlets along with various civic organizations each with its own set of regulations, interests.
Mark Steyn: Limbaugh bad, Mao good"Rush Limbaugh is so "divisive" that to get him fired Leftie agitators have to invent racist sound bites to put in his mouth.
To hear the shouts of the masses about the performance of our President, it would be easy to miss that he is just over an eighth into his first term.
Obama's Strategic Confusion His move on missile defense raises troubling questions.
Obama feeds allies to bear by Ralph PetersObama's foreign policy embodies a line from "Animal House": "You [screwed] up -- you trusted us!"
Mark Steyn: Obama helping Putin restitch Iron CurtainScrapping of U.S. missile defense plans hands big victory to Russia's new czar.
The Longevity Experiment Despite the tremendous cultural and geographic differences between these distant lands, Buettner has identified common practices that seem to aid in extreme longevity.
Huge sperm of ancient crustaceansA new method for analysing the interior of fossils has shown that millimetre-long mussel-like crustaceans called ostracods used giant sperm to mate. Sperm of modern ostracods can reach 10 times their body length.
Alice Nez Horseherder, a Navajo sheep herder her entire life, lives in Hard Rock, Arizona in the the Black Mesa Region.
Barney Frank defends calling Scalia a 'homophobe'In an interview Wednesday, Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) defended his recent description of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia as a "homophobe."
Finder thinks picture historicA Las Vegas collector believes he has found a hitherto undiscovered early photograph of Ulysses S. Grant, the general most responsible for winning the Civil War who later served as president from 1869 to 1877.
Do not give bankers one more cent until they can come clean and tell us exactly where every dollar we already gave them went. It's a tired cliche but it's true - people only respect what other's inspect. OK, dog. where's my money?
Too long leg becomes too short after failed opA police officer with one leg longer than the other has been left with permanent injuries after a failed operation took too much off the leg, leaving it several centimetres shorter than the other, according to a report in Hallands Nyheter.
Mass. Speaker DiMasi says goodbye to HouseBOSTON -- House Speaker Salvatore DiMasi says he's leaving the chamber that he has served for the past 30 years with "mixed emotions." He also said Tuesday in his farewell speech that he was proud to be the first Italian American to hold the post.
If you live in or visit the Nashville Tennessee area, you may or may not have heard of a band that is truly unique in the history of modern music. They do not record together. They perform together infrequently. They do not tour. They do not perform original material.
Sources: 'Bone Trail' Found Through Woods Near Anthony HomeInvestigators Confirm Child's Body Wrapped Inside Plastic Bag
I can judge by some of the insensitive comments that have been made in reference to the apology issued by the government concerning slavery, that there is a real misunderstanding about the negative impact that slavery continues to have on later generations who may not have experi …
Buy American Made: How we can fix our country.This shows how the deficit has been made. If you look at the trend, you can see that sending our jobs overseas has made us fall into most of the problems we have now in our country. On a personal note, I feel that we could have avoided much of this trouble.
The Long Goodbye: Clinton to Endorse Obama - The Caucus - Politics - New York Times Blog11:54 a.m. | Running Late: Mrs. Clinton's motorcade is still at her house in Washington. Perhaps she was going over her speech, or getting some last-minute advice from you-know-who. Anyway, don't expect her to take the stage for quite a while.
Woodpecker with freakish beak photographed This extraordinary woodpecker - with its freakishly long beak - has been spotted feeding from a domestic garden feeder.
Ignoring Sharia's Advance Extremely StupidThe Washington Post's E.J. Dionne Jr. thinks there's "something peculiar" about conservatives who turn "Islamic extremism into a mighty ideological force with the power to overrun the world."
Crabs wave the long arm of loveMale fiddler crabs and their human counterparts have a lot in common when it comes to attracting members of the opposite sex, says an Australian researcher. Martin How, from the Australian National University (ANU), has shown for the first time that these animals change their bo …
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