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AP - A Delta baggage worker got a bit of a fright before Halloween when she opened a jetliner's cargo door and found a cheetah running loose amid the luggage. Two cheetahs were being flown in the cargo area of a Boeing 757 passenger flight from Portland, Ore., to Atlanta on Thursday when one escaped from its cage, Delta spokeswoman Betsy Talton said Friday.

In English, the road sign was just fine, warning drivers that the route ahead is not suitable for heavy trucks. But the translation in Welsh didn't work so well. "I am not in the office at the moment. Please send any work to be translated," it said. Swansea...

So how do you make Brazil's national cocktail? Maybe you'd better call a lawyer. Brazil's government has published legal guidelines insisting that a caipirinha must be made just so: It's mostly the sugarcane liquor called cachaca. And you can add at least 1...

The mortgage problems that have helped shape the current economic downturn have made "subprime" an unwelcome word to investors. For gamblers, however, Subprime drew cheers this week. That was the name of a horse that won the ninth race Thursday at the...

A new york City couple has traveled halfway around the world in the name of civic duty. Susan Scott-Ker and her husband arrived in New York on Wednesday after flying 9,300 miles to vote in Tuesday's presidential election. They have been working India but...

Researchers at the University of California, Davis are launching a birth-control program to control a rapidly expanding population of campus squirrels. UC Davis officials say the researchers will try to reduce the number of nonnative fox squirrels by giving...

AP - So how do you make Brazil's national cocktail?

AP - The mortgage problems that have helped shape the current economic downturn have made "subprime" an unwelcome word to investors.

AP - Thousands of revelers dressed as everything from goblins to pizza slices turned out for Greenwich Village's Halloween parade, reveling in a tradition equal parts spookiness and spoof.

A suburban Detroit woman has decided to scare up the vote among neighborhood children by just offering treats to John McCain supporters. Shirley Nagel of Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich., handed out candy Friday only to those who shared her support for the...