The arrest of an American man who broke into a woman’s house and tried to suck her blood over the weekend has sparked discussion about the impact of vampire books and movies on U.S. youth culture. Whether pop culture played a role in the attack remains to be seen, as 19-year-old Lyle Monroe Bensley awaits [...]

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Sounds nasty but Chicken Charlie’s is a staple of fried rations at fairs across the country. It sold 400 to 600 orders of deep-fried Kool-Aid per day the first weekend of the San Diego County Fair. That’s about double the rate of previous debut items, Boghosian said. “That’s because it tastes so darn good,” Boghosian [...]

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One nutty woman now has an arm-y of Facebook friends… The social network fan has had all her online pals’ profile pics tattooed on her limb. She filmed herself getting the 152 prints and posted the clip on YouTube. The unnamed Dutch woman, who goes by the username susyj87, said: “Pretty amazing, right? I’m really [...]

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This kid must really hate his sister! A 16-year-old Ontario boy was given a stern warning by police for posting an online ad that offered two children for sale. Chatham-Kent police said the ad included photos and stated that the kids had to be gone in a week or they’d be put on the streets. [...]

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British spies hacked into an al-Qaida website to replace instructions on how to build a bomb with recipes for making cupcakes, newspapers reported on Friday. The cyber offensive took place last year when the English language magazine called Inspire, aimed at Muslims in the West, was launched by supporters of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula [...]

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A Malaysia man has agreed to tweet an apology 100 times over three days after slandering a publishing company on the social media service. Fahmi Fadzil (@fahmi_fadzil), who describes himself as a performer and writer on his Twitter bio, is doling out the contrite tweets at about one an hour. As of Thursday morning, he [...]

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Zoo workers prepared tranquiler darts and a thermal imaging helicopter was dispatched amid reports of a white tiger on the loose near an England golf course. But there was just one problem — it turned out to be a stuffed animal. Police have launched an investigation into the potential hoax that sent golfers and cricket [...]

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Ummmm, here is a cool new item the nerd iPhone holster.

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An Alberta woman who police say is under a court order not to consume alcohol allegedly ordered alcohol and other items from a delivery service and gave the deliveryman an IOU instead of money. Police in Camrose say a 47-year-old woman placed her order Tuesday night. When the deliveryman arrived, the woman took her items [...]

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Police in St. John’s expect to lay charges in a workplace confrontation that involved an unusual weapon: a glue gun. The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary said an employee of Hearn Distributing is believed to have struck a truck driver on May 12 with a piece of metal. The driver was visiting the premises of the Mount [...]

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