A street vendor has become the first person in Chicago to be fined for selling foie gras under a bylaw that bans the sale of the delicacy.

Doug Sohn, who runs Hot Doug's Sausage Superstore and Encased Meat Emporium, said he has been serving hot dogs with foie gras since the ordinance took effect in August 2006.

Easter is coming, and rabbits are due for their annual burst of popularity.

A Czech resort has taken beer to a new height: 34 C, to be precise.

An ad campaign in Ukraine featuring billboards and commercials with images of the Soviet dictator Josef Stalin exhorting people to pay their bills was pulled on Monday after protests from rights groups and nationalists.

A woman with three crocodiles strapped to her waist was stopped at the Gaza-Egypt border crossing after guards noticed that she looked "strangely fat," officials said Monday.

Fast-food chain McDonald's is aiming to scrub "McJob" from the pages of dictionaries, saying the definition is an insult to its employees.

SkyWest Airlines apologized to a passenger who said he wasn't allowed to use the restroom during a one-hour flight and ended up urinating in an air-sickness bag.

The final bottle of British-made HP Sauce rolled off the production line in Birmingham Friday as production of the famed condiment shifts to the Netherlands.

In Ireland, they bury people quickly – and now they're harnessing the speed of the internet to help families grieve across the globe.

A group of Malaysian Buddhist monks, whose faith stipulates compassion for all living things, is looking for solutions to a severe stinging-ant infestation at their temple that has already sent one worshipper to hospital.

The urge to make life's tastiest noshes safer has put Camembert producers in a dilemma.

Day-to-day life rubbing you raw? Call the Bank of Montreal.

Scotland’s national tourist board has launched the Date a Hot Scot sweepstakes for single women around the world, promising to "give every girl the opportunity to seek out the man of her dreams."

Alberta is looking for a buyer with at least $1 million to buy a 28-year-old airplane that has flown former premiers Ralph Klein and Peter Lougheed.

The police dog and police chief in Fostoria, Ohio, have more in common than their calling.