After taking a month to dig a one-kilometer tunnel to a jewelry store in Italy, four would-be thieves were nabbed at the last minute when two of them were seen climbing out of a manhole.

The men who tipped off police were also spotted carrying walkie-talkies in the picturesque town centre of Acireale in Sicily, police said.

Master distillers from Scotland are stepping three centuries back in time to make single malt whiskey in the same place where George Washington produced his own liquid gold.

Using imported Scottish barley, they are creating the only 100 bottles of authentic single malt whiskey ever to come out of the founding father's Mount Vernon estate, south of the U.S. capital that bears his name.

Worried about whether Islamic verses on Facebook are allowed? Or that suicide bombers kill innocent civilians? Afghanistan's Taliban have set up a new question-and-answer section on their website to address such issues.

The facility on Voice of Jihad, the official website of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan -- the Taliban's own name for their movement -- allows readers to submit queries to spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid.

Like zombies, human beings can't get enough of brains.

A new London exhibition explores that fascination, displaying everything from mummified Egyptian cerebral matter to slices of Albert Einstein's brain in the story of our quest to understand what's inside our skulls.

In their scruffy jeans and trainers, Ross Harper and Ed Moyse look just like any other British 22-year-olds -- except for the words "Buy My Face" and "Sold" emblazoned brightly on their faces.

Standing in the middle of London's shopping mecca Oxford Circus, the two Cambridge University graduates attract more than a few curious glances from the hordes of passers-by.

A puppy named after one of the world's biggest pop stars could set the world's record for tiniest dog.

Animal rescuers in Northern California say the female Dachshund mix, named Beyonce, was so small at birth that she could fit into a spoon. At two weeks, she's about the size of a business card.

With blond locks, long legs and delicate features, Jenna Talackova would have been a strong competitor in Canada's Miss Universe pageant but was disqualified, she says, because she used to be male.

The 23-year-old transgender model from the western Canadian city of Vancouver has accused the pageant of discrimination, and more than 28,000 supporters have signed an online petition demanding her reinstatement.

A Canadian court on Monday quashed portions of a law banning brothels and living off the avails of prostitution, lifting key barriers which it said put sex trade workers at risk of harm.

The Ontario Court of Appeal, however, upheld a ban on communicating for the purposes of selling sex.

Russia has arrested two suspected murderers who are believed to have eaten body parts of at least seven victims, investigators and media reported Monday.

A suspected serial killer in the town of Penza, some 560 kilometers (348 miles) southeast of Moscow, is believed to have "killed at least six people," the Investigative Committee said in a statement.

A South African academic is planning to sue the government after a pothole damaged his car and forced him to miss his mother's funeral, the Beeld newspaper reported Monday.

University professor Wannie Carstens's car hit a pothole and burst a tire when travelling at around 100 kilometers (60 miles) per hour in darkness on Sunday morning in the country's north-west.