Odd & Interesting

Burger King is staging an intervention with its cows.

A Russian prankster posing as the U.N. secretary-general managed to reach Poland’s president on the telephone and rendered him speechless with questions about Ukraine, Russia and his reelection on Sunday.

A Chicago area zoo is providing icy treats to help the animals cool off during a summer heat wave

In a presidential election year, there’s always a push to get people registered to vote.

An unopened copy of a vintage Super Mario Bros. video game has been sold for $114,000 in an auction that underscored the enduring popularity of entertainment created decades ago.

The coronavirus pandemic has taken away another summertime tradition in the U.S.: There will be no free Slurpees at 7-Elevens on Saturday — July 11 — to hail a date that doubles as an abbreviation of the convenience store chain’s name.

Izzy and Darwin, penguins who live at Chicago's Shedd Aquarium, visited the dinosaurs next door at the Field Museum

Caught on camera: Wisconsin police officer rescues dog from burning house.

Eight-year-old Eros trots through the streets of this hilly city several times a day with a straw basket in his jaws, taking vegetables, fruit and packaged foods to customers of the El Porvenir mini-market.

An arm-wrestling contest between a father and son turned violent and led to an 8-hour standoff with Kentucky deputies, authorities said.

A dog in Tennessee became a hero on the Fourth of July by alerting her owner to a house fire next door.

A bird symbolizing America’s freedom had to be liberated on Independence Day after becoming stuck in a tree in Alaska, a wildlife official said.

South Koreans have waited 16 long years for a savory, crispy bite that would satisfy their taste buds and right an infamous wrong. This week, they finally could fill a bowl with the cereal they wanted all along: green onion-flavored Chex.

Police in Louisiana were able to reel in a man captured on video swimming through a fish tank at a sporting goods store.

A swimmer in Delaware was caught on camera prying a shark’s mouth open with his hands this weekend in an effort to free it from a fishing hook.

This was not one of those delivery videos that some pregnant moms plan for.

A Wisconsin family helped save a young bear that was struggling to breathe while swimming in a lake with its head caught in a plastic food container.

It's spiky, has beady little eyes and a beak. It's an Australian animal called an echidna (uh-KID-nah) and a baby, known as a puggle, was born recently at the San Diego Zoo.

File it under pizza toppings only offered in Florida. State inspectors found an 80-pound iguana stashed in the freezer at a local pizza joint.

A beautiful painting by famed baroque artist Bartolome Esteban Murillo now has a cartoon-looking face after a botched restoration job.

Florida resident Terri Herrington's husband Bryan died after a workplace accident in 2004. His organ donation saved the life of Jeffrey Granger. Herrington donated a kidney to the same man 16 years later, saving his life again.

A maintenance worker who had a medical emergency while working on a 175-foot tall flagpole in Texas was rescued and brought to the ground.

The Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association says the price of cheddar is at its highest in a century due to massive demand from restaurants reopening.

An Amazon deliver woman in Delaware was caught on camera following an unusual request by a young customer.

A pair of rare Amur leopard cubs are now in their outdoor habitat at the recently-reopened San Diego Zoo. The two cubs were born April 26 and have not yet been named.