The Associated Press

If the $700-billion US price tag attached to the failed Wall Street bailout plan sounds like a lot, well, it is.

Some 15,000 enthusiasts have assembled the world's largest jigsaw puzzle in the southern German town of Ravensburg, Europe's biggest puzzle maker said.

One after the other, the models strutted across the stage to bouncy '80s dance tunes, all showing off designs of the same article of clothing — adult diapers.

Pennsylvania-based Jerry Grubb cares so deeply about the future of his former diner that he is offering to give away the 1950s-style restaurant for free.

Nearly 60 per cent of Canadians over 45 who have taken a cruise ship holiday have had sex while aboard, according to a poll conducted for a Canadian cruise planning website.

Kazuo Kawasaki, the Japanese designer of Sarah Palin's glasses, is grateful to the Republican vice-presidential candidate for making his product famous.

Paintings featuring the brush strokes and paw prints of animals such as snow leopards and sea lions from zoos around the U.S. will be sold Tuesday at auction in South Carolina.

Those who can't get enough of Sarah Palin can now choose from among three action figures, showing the Republican vice-presidential nominee as a businesswoman, a muscled gun-toting superhero and a naughty schoolgirl.

New Zealand's national airline is offering to pay bald travellers to use their heads - literally — in a new advertising campaign.

A 54-year-old man from Fond du Lac, Wis., says his obsessive-compulsive disorder drove him to eat 23-thousand Big Macs in 36 years.

A German company is making a high-style teddy bear modelled on the Paris-based fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld, right down to his white-collared shirt and jet black tie.