- Tourism website includes Toronto museum addition on ugly buildings list
- TORONTO - A tourism website has put an addition to the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto on its second annual list of the "World's Top 10 Ugly Buildings."
- Florence museum: lost Galileo relics, a tooth and 2 of astronomer's fingers, found again
- ROME - Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei's corpse in a Florentine basilica in the 18th century and given up for lost have been found again, a Florence museum said Friday.
- Senator: Postal Service to allow volunteers in Alaska town to write 'Dear Santa' responses
- ANCHORAGE, Alaska - North Pole elves have good reason to celebrate again, thanks to a decision by the U.S. Postal Service to resume a Santa Claus letter program that's thrilled children from around the world for decades.
- Authorities say man who fastened lizards to chest caught at Los Angeles airport customs
- LOS ANGELES - Federal officials say they arrested a man who strapped 15 live lizards to his chest to get through customs at Los Angeles International Airport.
- Overweight students at university in US told to take fitness class or risk diplomas
- PHILADELPHIA - A university's requirement that overweight undergraduates take a fitness course to receive their degrees has raised the hackles of students and the eyebrows of health and legal experts.
- Volunteers in US state strive to save Santa letter service after Postal Service puts it on ice
- ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A group of volunteer Santa Claus "elves" in Alaska's frigid interior is determined to save a popular holiday letter service featuring the North Pole's most beloved icon.
- Dry run for World Laughter Games planned for Toronto on Saturday
- MONTREAL - Ah, Vancouver. Basking in the glow of international attention as it prepares to host the 2010 Winter Olympics. Little does it know there is a move afoot in Toronto to shanghai its worldwide sports thunder.
- Turkey that challenged US highway traffic and taunted toll collectors is captured
- JERSEY CITY, N.J. - A wild turkey that has been running wild along the New Jersey Turnpike won't have to dodge Thanksgiving traffic.
- Anatomical art once owned by Ben Franklin go on display at Philadelphia hospital
- PHILADELPHIA - Rare anatomical drawings that once belonged to Benjamin Franklin are on display in a new exhibit at Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia.
