For Ethel Caterham, the trick to a long life is not to argue.

A slab of Brooklyn wall that the artist Banksy emblazoned with a bandaged, heart-shaped balloon is emerging after more than a decade in storage.

Hundreds of dachshunds and their owners have gathered in Budapest’s City Park in an attempt to set Hungary’s record for the largest single-breed dog walk.

During the War of 1812, residents of Rockport, Massachusetts, hurled rocks at British soldiers using their stockings as slings.

A runaway kangaroo shut down a stretch of interstate in Alabama on Tuesday.

A New York zoo is hand-feeding a baby vulture with a realistic bird puppet to ensure it survives to maturity.

Police in Japan say that climber who was airlifted with altitude sickness from near the peak of Japan’s Mount Fuji last week returned to the slope and was rescued for a second time just four days later.

A rare perfect break of 147 at the world snooker championship has earned a lucky fan $33,000.

Four young Chicago White Sox pitchers all had something in common before they even came to Boston this weekend.

In one small step for robot-kind — thousands of them, really — humanoid robots ran alongside actual humans in a half-marathon in the Chinese capital.

It happens every spring along a section of road north of Russia’s second-largest city of St. Petersburg: Volunteers, some in yellow vests, patrol near the Sestroretsk Bog natural reserve, and become crossing guards for thousands of toads and frogs.

For Sonia Pérez, stepping into Havana’s Doña Alicia restaurant felt like entering a movie.

Emaarion Boyd became the first minor league player in at least 20 years to steal six bases in a game without getting a hit when he pulled off the feat for High-A Beloit against Cedar Rapids.

Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was pecked by an ostrich at a wildlife park in Texas.

Stinky garbage is piling up on the streets of the U.K.'s second-largest city and causing chaos a month into a strike by trash collectors.

A man appearing before a New York court got a scolding from a judge after he tried to use an avatar generated by artificial intelligence to argue his case.

Bodega cats in New York City are widely loved feline workers in the Big Apple's convenience stores.

A German shepherd-husky dog has evaded capture for nearly two months after being rescued from a California shelter and running away from her adoptive home in Alaska.

Detectives have recovered four diamond earrings from a suspected thief two weeks after he gulped the Tiffany & Co. jewelry worth nearly $770,000 during his arrest on the side of a highway in the Florida Panhandle.

Mysterious deaths, unexplained noises and late-night apparitions are not the usual fodder of daily tours offered at New Zealand's parliament in Wellington.

It’s often called a rare sighting that’s a sign of good luck when a white or albino squirrel is spotted.

The central Dutch city of Utrecht has installed a “fish doorbell” that lets viewers of an online livestream help fish in their springtime swim to shallow spawning grounds.

The Chicago River is once again glowing kelly green as the city opens its annual St. Patrick’s Day celebrations.

The Chicago Bulls’ six NBA championship banners have been removed from the United Center rafters after they were damaged during a concert.