After racking up large debts financing a knitting business, an order of 55 Greek nuns has left their convent for a nearby monastery.

Got milk? Got a date? A group of dairy farmers are putting singles ads on milk cartons in the hopes of finding Mr. or Mrs. Right in the far-flung countryside of Wales.

An Australian man who has offered his life for sale on the Internet auction site eBay says he is prepared to accept a bid of £7,500.

A rare copy of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms with Pierre Elliott Trudeau's signature is now for sale on eBay, but one museum expert doubts it'll fetch much despite its historical importance.

Dog biscuits and squeaky toys weren't reward enough for one Dutch pet-shop owner who wanted to brew up a beef beer for her pet Weimaraners.

The biggest wine bottle in the world — more than 1.8 metres tall and weighing 585 kilograms — arrived in New York City from Australia for a quick date with U.S. connoisseurs.

A Singaporean teenager who illegally tapped into a neighbor's wireless internet network — an offense the city-state deems punishable by jail — was placed on 18 months' probation by a district court Tuesday.

The president of a major Japanese cake and candy maker said Monday he was stepping down after acknowledging the company had repeatedly used old milk and other ingredients in products, including cream puffs.

Fishing for the perfect place to put an aquarium? Look no further than the bathroom, a U.S. company suggests.

Many upscale restaurants and gourmet grocery stores in Chicago continue to sell foie gras, five months after the city banned the sale of the liver delicacy.

They say one man's trash is another man's treasure, but no one was expecting this.

The makers of the controversial Taser are at the consumer electronics show in Las Vegas on Monday to unveil flashy new pink and silver models of the stun gun for personal use.

A Melbourne cat, deemed a low credit risk, has been issued a Visa card with a respectable $4,200 US spending limit after his owner submitted an application in her pet's name.

A rare nickel, thought to be worth about $5 million US, did not attract any investors at auction Tuesday.

Austin ricochets around the Ritz-Carlton hotel room, bouncing from bed to chair and leaping high to lick the face of his personal masseuse. He's an energetic four-year-old pug, so there is a lot of wriggling as his "privileged pup" pet massage begins. But soon his eyelids droop and his tiny muscles relax under the soothing touch of Darlene Davison, the Ritz-Carlton Sarasota's spa director.