An anonymous family facing the foreclosure of their home found a box of old comic books in the house. Most are now worth only a few dollars. But one was the prized Action Comics #1 -- the first comic book to feature Su...

Residents of Derby, UK, named a new street in honor of Lara Croft, a native of their town. It's called "Lara Croft Way." The name was chosen from a shortlist by public vote, with 89% of those polled opting for the ch...

Masked robbers entered an Internet gaming cafe...  ...ht back? Here's the most interesting part of the news story: "I mean we're gamers, we've been immers...

Kick-Ass is about a teenager who decides to become a superhero. So he makes a costume and goes out on the streets, looking for trouble. In Columbia, Tennessee, one college student took up the path and now calls himself...

June is the Humane Society’s Adopt-A-Cat Mon...  ...dult” things) –kitties!Kittens In the News : You’ve Gotta Have FaithThroughout the cen...  ...when class began again. Eventually the television news crews took notice and Room 8 became the most famo...  ...he Grim Reaper CatPerhaps the...

Yang Liwei became China's first astronaut when he...  ...s last month, a top official at Xinhua, the state news agency, said that the mission was not so picture-...  ...ng the flight. Xia's lecture, which covered other news stories and how they were altered for the public,...

Or, more rather, names. Plural. British 19-year old George Garratt is now officially known as "Captain Fantastic Faster Than Superman Spiderman Batman Wolverine Hulk And The Flash Combined." Captain Fantastic joins...

2009 ends tonight, and looking back at the weird s...  ...at the weird stories of the year is always fun.   Oddee has the twelve most memorable events that had us...  ...., but police didn't learn about it until after news reporters began calling to confirm the authentici...

You can find a serious look back at the news of 2009 just about anywhere. A lot of those stori...  ...en hostage by Somali pirates. In entertainment news , an unemployed California mother of six uses in-v...

When passengers on a Continental flight out of Houston were told their flight would be delayed because of otters, a lot of them laughed, thinking it was a joke. It wasn't. There were a number of otters set to travel i...