Avie Woodbury from Christchurch told TVNZ that she captured the spirits after an exorcism session of her house and for which she paid roughly $100. Woodbury then put the ghosts into holy water and stored them in separate vials before deciding to auction them.

The airline was forced to delay a flight from Vancouver during the 2010 Winter Olympic Games because passengers watching the end of gold medal final on airport televisions ignored repeated calls to board. "We incurred a flight delay for a reason Air Canada had not yet encountered in over 72 ...

The Asian elephant mother delivered the male baby in the early hours of Wednesday in what Taronga Park Zoo officials said was "unbelievable good fortune". "Dedicated keepers reported the amazing news early this morning that the calf had been born and was showing signs of life," ...

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian parliamentarians tucked into a meal of seal meat on Wednesday to defy both animal right activists and the European Union, which has banned imports of seal products. Some two dozen guests, surrounded on all sides by media, crammed into a small room off the main ...

The men, a 31-year-old migrant from India and a 48-year-old Greek Cypriot, are suspected of being behind the bizarre crime, for which one of them received just 200 euros ($270) for his assistance to the other suspect. Police said they raided Papadopoulos's tomb in December, armed with a pick and a ...

No one was killed in what the Mucusso village's local administrator said was "a fight between man and beast," just eight years after Angola's three-decade long civil war almost wiped out all of the African nation's wildlife. "The situation in Mucusso is worrying. What we are ...

BOSTON (Reuters Life!) - Fueled by leftover chocolate and with components made from carrots, potato starch and flax, the world's first sustainable Formula 3 racing car has a top speed of 135 miles per hour and can go from zero to 60 in 2.5 seconds. Sound nuts? Not yet -- brake pads made from ...

The National Sleep Foundation telephone poll of more than 1,000 people from the four ethnic groups also showed that more black Americans are likely to do job related work before bed. Black Americans have long suffered from higher jobless rates than white Americans, a phenomenon that in recent ...

The government tucked the idea into a major policy speech on Tuesday and by Friday the public outcry was so strong Prime Minister Stephen Harper backtracked. "We offered to hear from Canadians on this issue and they have already spoken loud and clear," said Dimitri Soudas, Harper's ...

The new eco-friendly banana range of undies incorporates 27 percent banana fiber, 64 percent cotton and 9 percent lycra, AussieBum's Lloyd Jones said on Friday. The banana fiber used in the underwear is made from a bark weave from the banana plant and makes the underwear not only lightweight, but ...