Ryan Gosling hasn’t forgotten his Canadian roots. Joelle Murray, the owner of Grinder Coffee in Toronto’s east end, began a campaign to get the Blue Valentine star in her establishment during the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) where the [...]

The owner of the Montana Club extended the birthday discount — 1 percent for every year of a person's life. At age 109, Helen Self got a free meal, plus a dollar and change back.When she turned 108, she was named one of Montana’s two oldest...[...]

The discovery of a black Labrador named Lucy led to the unraveling of a criminal case Monday against an Oregon man who had begun serving a 50-year prison sentence. Joshua Horner, a plumber from the central Oregon town of Redmond, was convicted on...[...]

A New York man will be living large thanks to his decision to buy some Slim Jims for his dog. New York Lottery officials say Monday that 73-year-old Dale Farrand recently won the $10 million prize on a Cash Spectacular scratch-off...[...]

Yessenia and Eric of Houston, Texas, wanted to do something unique for their gender reveal party, so they enlisted the help of a family member to dress as a giant dancing baby. For obvious reasons, the zany video has gone viral.Take, for example,...[...]

It's no secret that rental costs worldwide are gradually becoming more and more crippling.In the UK alone we're constantly bombarded with headlines bemoaning the effects of gentrification, the never-ending homelessness crisis (the government has [...]

Kids often stop to admire Nuts on the street.Nuts, a 2-year-old griffon living in Moscow, Russia, often gets stares and compliments anywhere he...[...]

Taken in Kenya's spectacular Masai Mara national park, the image shows a typical watering hole surrounded by a rocky outcrop. But somewhere in the image a leopard is hiding.  It was so discreet in fact that even photographer, Ingo Gerlach,...[...]

At nearly 100 pounds, Arnie, a 5-month-old Great Dane, weighs about as much as a baby hippo.The five-month-old puppy, which weighs nearly 100 pounds, and growing, may just be Britain’s biggest...[...]

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Is it possible for Barack Obama to become more likeable? On Saturday, he addressed a gathered crowd in Anaheim, California, and told a story about a time from his student days, when he was kicked out of Disneyland's Magic Kingdom for...[...]

A former refugee with a rocket science degree who stood outside Canary Wharf station with a sign looking for work starts his new job tomorrow.  Mohamed Elbarkey landed a job with Milamber Ventures, a specialist business incubator based in...[...]

In images shared online by US-based Reddit user zackishomo, a woman is seen modelling a white top with a strategically placed black and white grid across her bust.In images shared online by Reddit user zackishomo, a woman is seen modelling a white...[...]

What a time to be alive, etc., etc.So, like, yeah, Real Simple noticed that a bunch of people - for both sentimental and purely aesthetic reasons - began tatting those famous Pyrex designs onto their bodies at some point during the last few...[...]

Because everyone should know what the click of a View-Master sounds like.One by one, a project spotted by Fast Company is cataloguing the sounds made by outdated objects that have faded from our collective memory. Called Conserve the Sound, it's “an [...]