A wallet has been returned to its owner one week after being lost -- with a winning lottery ticket still inside. The winner is said to have bought 10 pension-type lottery tickets, handing them out to friends and keeping just one.After getting drunk, however, he lost his bag with the wallet inside. Luckily, he was able to get the belongings back a week after the announcement of the winner.The winne

WASHINGTON (AP) _ Scientists have found a new contributor to male infertility, a protein that is supposed to coat sperm to help them swim to an egg, unless that coating goes missing.About 20 percent of men may harbor gene mutations that leave their sperm coat-free and thus lower their fertility, an international research team reported Wednesday.Today's reproductive tests cannot spot the problem, s

SHANGHAI (AP)—Wracked by injuries that curtailed his playing time in the NBA, Yao Ming called it quits on his basketball career Wednesday during a packed news conference in his hometown. The Houston Rockets center and No. 1 draft pick in the 2002 NBA draft confirmed weeks of speculation about his retirement by opening with a simple statement: “I will formally end my career.”He promised, though, th

 

A man in Gwangju was charged with stealing his wife’s car from their apartment parking lot, the police said Tuesday. The man identified by his surname Oh was in deep debt and decided to put his wife’s car up as collateral for a 12 million won ($11,000) loan. Oh’s wife noticed a week later that her car -- worth 35 million won --was missing. Once she reported the missing automobile, police spotted h

LOS ANGELES, July 18, 2011 (AFP) - Hollywood stars Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis have accepted YouTube invitations from two US marines, one serving in Afghanistan, to accompany them to military balls.And singer-turned-actor Timberlake and "Black Swan" star Kunis are having fun with the invitations by a male and female Marine, which went viral on the video-sharing site last week."Marines have a

This year’s summer high school proms in Europe sparkled with a touch of China, thanks to a growing trend of Western teenagers going in for Middle Kingdom fashion bargains.An increasing number of dresses made in China adorned the dance floors of high schools worldwide this year as clothing wholesalers in the East market their Oscar-style dresses online at a fraction of the normal cost. With parents

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) _ Somali pirates holding South Korean hostages have demanded the release of prisoners and compensation from their government for a commando raid that killed several pirates earlier this year.The demand is the second time that pirates have sought to use hostages to negotiate a prisoner exchange in addition to a ransom.One of the pirates holding 25 crew aboard the MV Gemini t