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November 5, 2015

Brooklyn bar serves weak 'ladies' drinks and stronger cocktails for 'men'

Cocktails for ladies and men contain different amounts of alcohol.

November 5, 2015

Man uses one first-class ticket to get free airline lounge meals for a year

Some people will go to extremes to save money.

November 5, 2015

Luxury resort offers tourists authentic slum experience

Who needs indoor plumbing and Egyptian cotton sheets when you can live like a real life impoverished person in an authentic South African slum.

November 5, 2015

Confessions of a travel psychic client

I was a little skeptical when a colleague approached me to visit a ‘travel psychic.’

October 25, 2015

Man spent 15 years with pencil in head after childhood accident

German doctors say a man spent 15 years with a pencil in his head following a childhood accident.

October 24, 2015

Doctors warn teens about taking the 'cinnamon challenge' in new report

At least 30 teens nationwide needed medical attention after taking the challenge last year.

October 23, 2015

Veterinary surgeons remove basketball-sized hairball from tiger in Fla. that stopped eating

It's not unusual for a cat to get a hairball, but a 400-pound tiger needed help from veterinary surgeons in Florida when he couldn't hack up a basketball-size hairball by himself.

September 28, 2015

Massachusetts boy finds $8,000 on slide, turns it in

Police in northeastern Massachusetts say a 7-year-old boy turned in a checkbook to police that contained $8,000.

September 23, 2015

Sheet bites man: Bad knot-tying hinders inmate's bed sheet escape from Louisville jail

Two inmates at a Louisville, Kentucky, jail could have used a course in knot-tying when authorities say they plotted an escape using bed sheets.

September 23, 2015

Iowa school board candidate running unopposed fails to earn any votes, may still get job

An Iowa farmer who was running unopposed for his local school board failed to earn any votes — not even his own — but he'll probably still get the job.