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The probe comes nearly two weeks after a white Chicago police officer was charged with the first-degree murder of a black teenager.

The story said Santa Claus was born in 1788 in a northern Norwegian city and that a funeral was set for a chapel at the North Pole. The newspaper has apologized and says printing the ad was a mistake.

"Visage aux Mains," a silver plate made by Picasso – worth an estimated $85,000 – was stolen from Miami Art Week last year.

A penguin which apparently fell off of a truck led police on a wild, waddling chase. After finally apprehending the penguin, police took it to the station and prepared a meal of fish.

The signs at Old Dominion University were criticized for mocking sexual violence against women, and sparked national outrage.

The Napa Valley Wine Train says it removed the women for being too loud, but the women say it was because of their race.

Big Ben is the name for the giant bell inside Elizabeth Tower. The chimes are slow by as many as six seconds. Mechanics are placing or removing pennies from the pendulum to alter its speed.

More than a dozen people were reportedly killed in the blast at a busy downtown intersection in the Thai capital.

On January 27, 1877, a person in France posted a letter. This year, the great-granddaughter of the intended recipient opened it to find an order for yarn. The letter was marked: high-speed delivery.

After a recent report found very little diversity among art museum staff, the Mellon Foundation started a program to change that.