Actor and comedian Kevin Hart woke up his 19.6 million Twitter followers not with a joke but with a serious invitation for a run through Atlanta's Piedmont Park on Friday.

"Up & at it...we are about to get this spontaneous 5K run in this morning!!!!" he tweeted.

Air India said Saturday it was investigating how a lizard ended up in one of its in-flight meals, in the latest embarrassment to hit the struggling airline.

A picture circulating on social media showed the reptile's head poking out from underneath a bun on a meal tray wrapped in cling film.

Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl gave new meaning Friday to the advice for performers to "break a leg" after he fell from stage and returned to play in a cast.

Grohl, the former drummer of Nirvana, was performing in Gothenburg, Sweden, when he tumbled during the second song and badly injured himself, according to several pictures and videos on social media.

A six-year-old British girl chosen to give a posy to Queen Elizabeth II got more than she bargained for when a soldier standing next to her knocked off her hat during a salute.

Maisie Gregory had donned a traditional Welsh costume for her meeting with the royal in Cardiff on Thursday, and presented the flowers and made a courtesy without a hitch.

The capital of Estonia is perhaps not the place where one would expect to find the remains of medieval ships, but that is exactly what happened to a group of construction workers in Tallinn this week.

While working on the foundations for high-end apartments in a seaside area of the Baltic state's capital, the men noticed something strange in the ground: the remains of at least two ships thought to be from the 14th-17th centuries. 

Two South Korean women are in trouble with authorities after being caught lying about MERS to get time off work.

South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported Friday that police charged a 20-year-old saleswoman at a department store for spreading a rumor online that it was hiding an outbreak of MERS among staff.

Dogs do not like people who are mean to their owners, Japanese researchers said Friday, and will refuse food offered by people who have snubbed their master.

The findings reveal that canines have the capacity to co-operate socially -- a characteristic found in a relatively small number of species, including humans and some other primates.

A huge reptile is on the prowl through Tokyo's streets -- but unlike Godzilla, who stomped across Japan's capital in a blaze of destructive energy, Bon-chan the giant tortoise isn't doing anything very quickly.

The metr- (3-feet-) long African spurred tortoise, which tips the scales at 70 kilograms (150 pounds), is a regular sight on the streets of Tokyo's Tsukishima district, as he and owner Hisao Mitani take their snail-paced daily walk. 

A Vermont man has escaped jury duty — by getting dismissed for wearing a prisoner costume.

James Lowe says he was released from jury duty on Tuesday when he showed up at court wearing a black-and-white-striped jumpsuit with a matching beanie.

It was a grisly crime in a sleazy place -- the stuff New York tabloid headline writers feast on, too good an opportunity to miss: "Headless body in topless bar."

The author of that dark zinger, former New York Post editor and film critic Vincent Musetto, died Tuesday at the age of 74, the paper said.