Somewhere in northern Illinois, the dark cool spaces of a wine chiller that's reserved for fine chardonnays and cabernets is housing snakes.

A student who's growing his locks for what he believes is a great cause has had his ambition cut short.

A cargo ship has smashed through a US bridge after being too tall to go under it, leaving a 300ft gap in the structure.

Thirty-five-year-old Maria Jose Cristerna, Mexico’s heavily tattooed and modified ‘Vampire Woman’ explains the decision behind her remarkable transformation at the 2012 Venezuela Tattoo Expo.

An organisation in the Philippines is recycling old plastic and glass bottles and using them to construct classrooms in order to accommodate a rising population of students.

A North Carolina politician learned the perils of the reply-all button the hard way when he accidentally sent an e-mail calling for the state to resume public hangings for murderers. It went to every member of the state’s general assembly when he had only intended to reply to the original sender.

It might have been the strangest ever episode of Storage Wars.

An Ontario strip club that was the impetus for a law against so-called dwarf-tossing is at it again. The law never passed, so Leopard’s Lounge & Broil, in Windsor, is holding another dwarf-tossing contest Saturday.

A flight was held up for four hours when a cat escaped from its carrycase and ran amok in the cockpit.

An artist disguised by body paint disappears into the background of her artwork.

Uggie, the 10-year-old canine star of Oscar-nominated hit The Artist, is ‘getting tired’.

A Romanian auction house sells a leopard skin, silver doves and a bronze yak that belonged to the late communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.

A US jury has awarded a man $22m (£12m) after he was kept in solitary confinement without trial for nearly two years over an alleged drink driving offence.

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A reader supports President Obama and his call to reject partisanship.