For over a week digital clocks and watches in Sicily are complicating their owners by running more than 15 minutes fast, local media said.

// Jun. 11, 2011 - 06:30 GMT

A young man died early Friday morning in Moscow's subway when he reportedly opened the door of a moving train inside the tunnel “to get some fresh air,” police said.

// Jun. 10, 2011 - 04:22 GMT

An unemployed man from Russia's Krasnoyarsk region on Sunday wounded a teenager with a shotgun who was riding a noisy motorcycle and “disrupting” him while drinking, a local police source said.

// May. 30, 2011 - 07:30 GMT

A Chinese writer is planning to spend $153,000 on plastic surgery to look like British playwright William Shakespeare, Shanghai Daily reported on its website on Thursday.

// Apr. 21, 2011 - 06:31 GMT

Police in Siberia have caught two inmates who broke out of jail on horseback and then stole a car, however, later wrecked it during their getaway.

// Apr. 15, 2011 - 05:36 GMT

Two unidentified thieves dressed as policemen have effortlessly deprived a 40-year-old Chinese student of his BMW -3 car in western Moscow, a police source said on Tuesday.

// Mar. 22, 2011 - 07:04 GMT

The Kazakh Defense Ministry and national TV have launched a televised project in which politicians, athletes and celebrities will be drafted into the armed forces.

// Feb. 15, 2011 - 07:19 GMT

A cow in Russiaâ™s southern Urals republic of Bashkortostan has given birth to four cows in what has been described as an extremely rare occurrence. </p>

// Jan. 29, 2011 - 10:06 GMT

A resident of the Volga Federal District's Orenburg region has been sentenced to 180 hours of community service for disassembling a floating bridge and turning it into a metal recycling plant, the region's Prosecutor General's Office said on Thursday.

// Dec. 23, 2010 - 06:24 GMT

Four trained bears with a touring circus went into hibernation during a road trip to a venue in the Russian Far East, a trainer said on Monday.

// Dec. 20, 2010 - 07:55 GMT