A Barcelona fan who planned to attend his team’s Champions League game at Newcastle ended up 360 miles away at third-tier Exeter City after going to the wrong stadium.

The head priest of Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in downtown Pittsburgh is facing charges after being accused of stealing more than $1,000 in baseball cards from a Walmart.

King penguins are adapting to climate change in a way that seems to help them breed successfully, which is unusual.

A 16-foot (5-meter) Baby Jesus statue visits Mexico City’s Tepito neighborhood as part of a traveling project that brings the religious image to communities across the capital and nearby cities in central Mexico.

Awards season has a way of diminishing the movie year into a handful of films that are talked about ad nauseam for months.

Traditional reindeer racing has drawn an international crowd to the town of Salla in northern Finland.

About two dozen couples have taken part in the U.K. Wife Carrying Race, one of the country's quirkiest annual sports events.

Police in New Zealand say a knapsack left in a donation area at a charity shop contained marijuana and more than $2,000 in cash.

A Spanish soccer team is asking Madonna for help in finding the club shirt she wore on stage during a concert in 1990.

The North Dakota Highway Patrol's newest recruit has floppy ears, four legs and a powerful tool for finding people.

Punch the baby orphan macaque is outgrowing the orangutan plushie that comforted him through early rejection from his mother and other monkeys.

An independent researcher has asserted that a marble bust of Christ in a Roman church is by Michelangelo.

A new study uses physics to uncover why sneakers squeak on the basketball court.

New Zealand conservationists have been fighting for years to keep the kakapo, the world’s only flightless parrot, from disappearing, with intensive conservation efforts.

A Budapest pizzeria is serving a limited pizza that uses only ingredients ancient Romans could have eaten.

Giant tortoises have returned to Floreana Island in Ecuador's Galapagos archipelago as conservationists release 158 juvenile hybrids to restore the ecosystem.

A video of Reggae, a 33-year-old Atlantic harbor seal at the New England Aquarium, hugging and fetching a rubber duck has drawn attention on social media.

Thai police say they've caught an elusive serial burglar by going undercover as lion dancers at a temple fair.

Temperatures in northern Europe have been so low that Estonians can now drive across a 12 1/2-mile stretch of frozen sea.

Finland slopestyle skier Kuura Koivisto ditched the ski suit and made his Olympic trip down the hill in a tank top.

Firefighters came to the rescue of a swan found stuck in a frozen Connecticut river this week.

Punxsutawney Phil, the legendary groundhog that lives in a tree stump in rural Pennsylvania, has issued the most highly anticipated weather forecast of the season: six more weeks of winter.

Punxsutawney Phil is set to deliver his annual weather forecast and predict either six more weeks of winter or an early spring.

Wildlife officials say a large exotic lizard was found buried in the snow in Rhode Island.