German brewers are bumping up their beer prices as more farmers abandon their barley crops and try growing rapeseed and corn to be used in biofuels.

Albertans are being urged to dig out their old lottery tickets and double-check their numbers, as no one has come forward yet to claim a $14.9-million jackpot that expires in just over a week's time.

Real estate is often a long-term investment. But 10,000 years?

Cellphones are ubiquitous in Japan, and concern over expanding waistlines is on the rise, leading Japanese health-care officials to launch a new service allowing weight-conscious individuals to send photos of their meals to nutritionists for analysis.

Things people left on planes and at airports — more than 20,000 of them, including a wedding dress and a pair of rudimentary stilts — were auctioned Tuesday in a big clear out of Madrid airport's lost and found department.

Viagara may help people with jetlag recover faster, say scientists who studied the impotence drug's effect on hamsters.

Only women will be allowed to stay on the 19th floor of a new Marriott hotel currently under construction in Grand Rapids, Mich., the company said this week.

A piece of art bought for a modest $200 at a garage sale is expected to fetch over $100,000 at auction next week.

A new business course that incorporates the tactics of Tiger Woods and the deal-making skills of Donald Trump aims to teach students how to conduct business on the greens of a golf course.

Japan's government has launched an investigation after the country's largest toilet manufacturer was forced to do a massive recall of 180,000 bidets due to faulty wiring.

A trip to the grocery store is becoming a lot more fashionable as consumers look to designer totes to bag their greens and express their style.

A man in Washington, D.C., got so steamed when a dry cleaner lost his trousers that he sued for $65 million US. Two years later, he is still pressing his suit.

Baseball players and truck drivers who chew sunflower seeds at work no longer have to down a cup of black coffee or a Red Bull for an extra energy jolt. A South Dakota company is infusing sunflower seeds with caffeine and other boosters commonly found in energy drinks.