A portion of downtown Ottawa had to be cordoned off for a short time during the lunch hour Monday due to a bee swarm.

A young driver survived a spectacular crash in which he was thrown from his vehicle in suburban Montreal.

The owner of a tavern in a small town in the state of Iowa who said he ran mouse races on Sundays for fun, was cited by local police for allowing patrons to bet on the rodent running.

Waitress Takes A Tumble Finally, a waitress who doesn't need a customer to tip her.

An investigation is under way in northeast China after a giant hole opened up in a road bridge, swallowing a passing lorry.

A waterspout, spiralling hundreds of metres into the sky, has been filmed off the coast of New South Wales in Australia.

A waterspout has been spotted off the coast of New South Wales, Australia, as the region suffers severe storms and flooding.

WAITRESS, 18, walking home from night shift floors two male attackers twice her age with a set of cleverly-placed punches.


Hundreds of rail passengers fled in terror when dozens of deadly snakes were found on a train travelling from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi in Vietnam.

It looks like there will be a happy ending to the story of an outback Queensland woman who lost her false teeth to a cunning native rat.

Swingset To Slide Jump Attempt Getting beaten up <i>by</i> the playground instead of <i>on</i> the playground must be a nice change of pace.

A plan of the Titanic, used in the inquiry into the sinking of the ship in 1912, has sold for what is believed to be a world record price for memorabilia of the doomed boat.

Drag Race Start Fail This dude starts revving his engine before the green light and ends up taking off early and crashing into the starting light.

Dude Gets Kicked In Face Helping Friend Yet another example of a good deed never going unpunished.

World's First BMX Triple Backflip Very cool first and third person perspective of Jed Mildon pulling off the world's first BMX triple backflip.

Christchurch man Glenn Martin says he has realised a 30-year dream, with his company setting a new record for a jetpack flight.

A list of the top ten most “ridiculous” excuses used by benefit cheats has been published by ministers.

The idea for the championship came from a comedy by Charlie Chaplin

"SUPERNATURAL" schools claiming to teach how to heal the sick and raise the dead net thousands for church coffers.


THE 65-year-old head of a university in Colombia says that he ate a few plant stems and drank urine to survive four days stranded in a Louisiana swamp.


Snowboarder Falls Off Roof He should've asked Santa for common sense instead of a snowboard.

Yacht Narrowly Averts Collision This racing yacht narrowly avoids smashing into a nearby boat. "Everybody safe? Still rich? OK, let's keep going!"

An anchor from what’s believed to be the wreck of the pirate Blackbeard’s flagship sees daylight for the first time in nearly 300 years.


A Toronto couple defend their decision to keep secret their baby’s sex to allow the child to develop his or her own gender identity.

Obama Sounds A Little Drunk Before giving this speech in Ireland Obama stopped by a local pub and had a pint of Guinness.