A Canadian museum has snapped up the world's oldest-known ice hockey stick -- made out of maple -- for $300,000.

The "Moffatt stick" was hewn in the 1830s in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, "from a single piece of sugar maple," the Canadian Museum of History said Friday.

A six-vehicle pileup on Interstate 90 in South Dakota left the road covered in 500 pounds of McDonald's french fries.

The Argus Leader (http://argusne.ws/1BJrUU7 ) reports that emergency personnel in McCook County in the southeast part of the state spent Friday morning removing the fries from the road.

A couple called 911 during a storm and described how they were trapped in their minivan as it was dragged 16 miles along Interstate 75 in northern Michigan after it became lodged beneath the rear of a tractor-trailer.

The Grand Rapids Press (http://bit.ly/1KoLUzi ) posted about three minutes of a call Matthew and Pamela Menz made early Wednesday to Roscommon County's 911.

Furious Kenyan villagers said they wasted a day waiting for a "witchdoctor" to bring a corpse back to life after he failed because he was too "tired", a report said Friday.

Scores of villagers in Kenya's southeastern Kwale district turned up singing and dancing to see the "miracle", Kenya's The Star newspaper reported.

A Japanese woman got more than a mouthful when she discovered fragments later identified as "dental material" in a McDonald's hamburger, marking the fast-food chain's latest food quality embarrassment.

The news, confirmed by McDonald's on Friday, comes two days after the company admitted several foreign objects had been found in food at Japanese outlets, including a human tooth in a container of french fries at an outlet in Osaka.

A Facebook group has sparked online uproar in Thailand after ridiculing the placing of statues at dangerous road spots to ward off evil spirits, in a country where belief in the occult and supernatural is deeply held.

The photo, which went viral this week, showed a man's foot standing on a row of zebra figurines at a busy road junction in Bangkok known locally as "Kong Roi Sop" -- the curve that claims 100 lives.

Cow urine may soon be used to clean the floors of India's government offices in a country where bovines are sacred and their bodily waste considered therapeutic and even thirst-quenching.

A charity working to care for and protect the cows that freely roam India's streets has developed a cleaning product with their urine - distilled and spiked with natural perfumes to remove the pungent odor.

An Indian public official has been sacked for taking leave 24 years ago and never returning to his desk in the country's notoriously work-shy bureaucracy, the urban development ministry said Thursday.

Assistant executive engineer A.K Verma went on leave in 1990 after joining India's central public works department (CPWD) a decade earlier.

Passengers travelling on a new flight offered by Austrian budget airline Fly Niki from April will hardly have time to sip a coffee between take-off and landing.

The flight between Vienna and Bratislava, which lie just about 50 kilometers (30 miles) apart, will last about 20 minutes, the airline said, claiming that this would be the world's shortest flight between two countries.

Hundreds watched a staging of a traditional nativity play in western Ukraine Wednesday featuring a bizarre political twist -- with an actor in a President Vladimir Putin mask playing the murderous King Herod.

A group of Orthodox Christian performers staged the open-air nativity play in the city of Lviv that is a bastion of Ukrainian nationalism on Orthodox Christmas, celebrated according to the old-style Julian calendar on January 7 instead of December 25.