A unique dime minted in 1873 in Carson City, Nev., sold at auction in Philadelphia for considerably more than its face value -- $1.84 million.The “No Arrows” dime went to an anonymous buyer in the auction at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, KYW News Radio reported. It was described as the world‘s most valuable dime. Coin Update News said the dime was probably sent to Philadelphia for assay and was supposed to be melted down along with others in the series because the weight of

A mama bear and her three cubs are suspected of breaking into a cabin in northern Norway and knocking back more than 100 cans of beer, officials said.“They had a hell of a party in there,” cabin owner Even Borthen Nilsen told NRK. “The cabin has the stench of a right old piss up, trash and bears.”The bear family is believed to have ripped a wall off of the cabin to gain entry, The Local.no reported.“The entire cabin was destroyed,” Nilsen told the local Finnmarken.no daily.“The beds and all kitc

A study by the University of Texas found husbands and wives are equally romantic, but they express their feelings in different ways.Researchers at the university interviewed 168 couples at four points in their marriage, Britain‘s The Daily Telegraph reported Saturday.Husbands and wives were questioned separately about how close and attached they felt to their partners, as well as a number of questions about each other’s behavior over the past 24 hours.Researchers found wives “seem to show love b

Usain Bolt‘s Jamaica smashed the 4x100m world record and Britain’s Mo Farah clinched a magical distance double in a rousing climax to London Olympics track action on Saturday.Sprint legend Bolt anchored Jamaica‘s 36.84sec around the Olympic Stadium, which lowered their own mark set last year and pushed him out to a unique “double treble”: the 100m, 200m and 4x100m titles, twice in a row.Aided by Nesta Carter, Michael Frater and Yohan Blake, it put the seal on a glorious Games for the party-lovin

Authorities in Australia said they arrested a naked man who caused traffic delays by running across a bridge and setting off fire hydrants.A Sydney police spokeswoman said the naked man ran across the Sydney Harbor Bridge around 6 p.m. Tuesday and turned on “a number of fire hydrants” along the way, The (Sydney) Telegraph reported Wednesday.“After a foot chase across the bridge he was apprehended,‘’ the spokeswoman said.The man was taken to a local hospital for assessment. Authorities said there

A black bear stole candy from a store in the Colorado resort town of Estes Park in the U.S., according to news reports.The bear reportedly entered the front door, grabbed some candy, took it outside and ate it. It later returned for more.It visited the shop multiple times within 15 minutes on a day in July, and finally went away when alarmed by a passing car.Store owner Jo Adams said the bear didn‘t break anything but left some dirt on the counter.She said that the bear managed to pop open the d

Police found charred human remains in a supermarket parking lot on Tuesday in the U.K., according to news reports. The remains reportedly belonged to a homeless person who slept in the car park. Sources said a CCTV caught three gangsters pouring petrol onto the sleeping person and set him or her alight. The charred remains were so badly burnt that authorities are finding it difficult to find out the sex or age, the police said. Many internet users said they were shocked by the news. “How terribl

Astronomers in Germany say four “monster” sized stars in a nearby galaxy, but so far found nowhere else, are the result of “mergers” of stars in twin systems.The stars, as much as 300 times as massive as the sun, were discovered in 2010 in the giant star cluster R136 in the nearby galaxy the Large Magellanic Cloud, astronomers said.Until that discovery, observations of the Milky Way and other galaxies had suggested the upper limit for stars formed in the present day universe was about 150 times

An Oregon woman who has been seen swimming in public pools while dressed as a mermaid said she is living out a childhood fantasy.Pauline Long, 56, said she wanted to be a mermaid as a child and she decided to spend this summer swimming in Portland pools while wearing her homemade fins, which were inspired by a woman she met a few years ago, KGW, Portland, reported Monday.Long, who said she is part of a 23-strong group known as The Northwest Mermaids, said she knows she isn‘t a real mermaid, but

The remains of carnival attraction and “Apewoman” Julia Pastrana will be returned to her native Mexico, Oslo University in Norway said. Her body has been kept in Norway since the 1920s for research purposes, but a letter from Oslo University to Mexico‘s Ministry of Education, published in the scientific journal Uniforum, announced plans for a return to her home country for burial, the Norwegian news agency The Local reported Monday.Pastrana was a dancer, born in 1834 in Mexico with hypertrichosi

A seemingly tranquil galaxy that has been the scene of violent cosmic events has been captured in new telescopic images, European astronomers said.　The galaxy, NGC 1187, discovered by English astronomer William Herschel in 1784, looks tranquil and unchanging but it has hosted two supernovae explosions since 1982, they said.The galaxy‘s half a dozen prominent spiral arms containing large amounts of gas and dust show bluish features indicating the presence of young stars born out of the clouds of

A 16-year-old Texan was given a 20-year sentence after pleading guilty to stabbing his mother‘s boyfriend to death early this year.The teen, whose name has not been released, apologized for his actions before being sentenced Tuesday by District Juvenile Court Judge Laura Parker, the San Antonio News-Express reported."I know what I did was wrong,” he said.The teen was arrested Feb. 15, shortly after he fatally stabbed his mother’s boyfriend, Neo Gomez, in the chest.Before the stabbing, the teen‘s

A man and his companion were thrown off an airliner in Chicago over the weekend after arguing with attendants over his severely sagging pants, the airline said.The Chicago Tribune said the unnamed man was kicked off a Spirit Airlines flight, bound for Orlando, Fla., at O‘Hare International Airport.The report said the man and the woman with whom he was traveling Sunday morning became “verbally abusive” and threatened physical harm to flight attendants. His pants were “excessively low,” hanging be

A demonstration by the anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church in Washington state was interrupted by dozens of counter-protesters dressed as zombies.Melissa Neace, 27, of Spanaway, said she rallied the zombie hoards on Facebook after discovering eight members of the Kansas-based church were planning a demonstration Sunday at the Joint Base Lewis-McChord in DuPont, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash., reported Tuesday.Westboro‘s lawyer sent a fax to DuPont Police Chief Ron Goodpaster about the church’s pla

The point at which people put an ex-partner‘s photo away after a split is usually when they are emotionally ready to move on, a British psychologist says.“It’s not surprising that nearly half of us keep some kind of visual memento of past partners -- this goes for partners who were divorced or died as well -- a photo generates strong emotions as it unleashes memories of past attachment and times,” Corinne Sweet, behavioral psychologist said in a statement.A survey for Friends Reunited, a social

NASA released new images from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) showing U.S. flags planted in lunar soil.The new images have finally given proof that the flags are still standing.Astronauts planted flags during each of the six American moon landings, starting from Apollo 11’s landing in 1969 to Apollo 17’s in 1972. The American moon landings remain the only manned flights to touch down on a heavenly body.According to an analysis of the shadows they cast on the surface of the moon, five

Al Capone‘s green and black Cadillac touring car was among the items on the block Saturday at a Michigan auction. Alan Squindo of RM Auctions told the Detroit News the car could go for as much as $500,000 at the sale in Plymouth, Mich. The event was not open to the public. Squindo said the car would be valuable even without its history. “This is a very special automobile, not withstanding its Capone history,” Squindo said. “It is a luxury car from a classic era as one of the first bulletproof ca

Prosecutors set to seek arrest warrant for DUP floor leaderProsecutors will seek an arrest warrant for the main opposition party‘s floor leader embroiled in a bribery scandal but repeatedly snubbing their summons, sources said Sunday.The move, scheduled for Monday, is expected to lead to a sensitive vote in the National Assembly over the lawmaker’s arrest as courts have to gain parliamentary approval to arrest an incumbent lawmaker while the assembly is in session.Rep. Park Jie-won of the Democr

LONDON -- South Korea had on Saturday everything a country could possibly have on a single day at an Olympic Games: a feel-good gold medal; a silver medal that almost never came; and a bronze medal that seemed as disappointing as an Olympic medal could be.Pistol shooter Jin Jong-oh captured South Korea‘s first gold medal in London in the men’s 10-meter air pistol event. It was also the country‘s first medal of any color at this year’s Olympics.Star swimmer Park Tae-hwan survived a ruling fiasco

A boy is recovering after he was hit in the face by a bird while riding a roller coaster at an amusement park in New Jersey.The collision occurred as the Kingda Ka coaster at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson was returning to the station Thursday.Park spokeswoman Kristen Siebeneicher tells the Asbury Park Press (http://on.app.com/N1hV0G ) the boy was taken to a hospital for treatment of minor injuries to his face and neck. She says it‘s unclear what type of bird it was, but characterized it a