Bob and Ricki Husick of Pittsburgh are offering anyone who buys their home a full refund when they die.

Did you just grope me? Shall we head to the police? That's the message women are flashing on their cellphones with a popular program designed to ward off wandering hands in Japan's congested commuter trains.

A new portable potty that consists of a cardboard toilet bowl packed in a suitcase promises to bring relief to travellers stuck in traffic jams, says Kyodo-based Kaneko Sangyo Co.

After years of protest, Sioux City, Iowa, officials have accepted their unfortunate airport designation – SUX – and are printing the code on t-shirts and baseball caps as part of a promotional campaign.

A dry cleaner in New York City's Upper East Side has filed a defamation suit against a dissatisfied customer who posted flyers complaining of alleged poor customer service.

A near-mint copy of Detective Comics No. 27, a pre-Second World War comic featuring Batman's debut, was recently found in an attic and sold to a local collector in Ellwood City, Pa.

A New York City hotel is so determined to make sure its customers get a good night's rest that it has its own sleep concierge.

The founder of a California food factory that makes everything from cookies to barbecue sauce — all laced with marijuana — turned himself in Thursday to face a federal drug charges.

When Japanese clothing designer Dai Fujiwara first laid eyes upon the utilitarian, bagless Dyson vacuum cleaner, he found inspiration for his new clothing line, which was unveiled at Paris's Fashion Week on Tuesday.

The leader of an artists' co-operative in Providence, R.I., has been sentenced to probation for setting up a secret apartment inside a shopping mall's parking garage as part of a project on mall life.