Britain's Prince Andrew has rappelled 785 feet (239 meters) down the side of Europe's tallest building to raise money for charity.

The 52-year-old's stunt began on London skyscraper The Shard's 87th floor and finished on the 20th, and took him 30 minutes.

Organizers of the National Buffalo Wing Festival say competitive eater Joey Chestnut has devoured a record 191 chicken wings in 12 minutes.

Chestnut set the record Sunday during a wing-eating contest at the annual festival in Buffalo. He beat the old record of 183 wings, set last year by Sonya Thomas, the Black Widow.

Bangladesh said on Monday that nine forest officials had been suspended for "gross negligence" after three Bengal tiger cubs were found in a house in Dhaka where they were being kept by smugglers.

Bangladesh's elite Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) rescued the two-month-old cubs in June after a tip-off that the endangered animals from the Sundarbans mangrove forest were in cages at the house ready to be sold.

Marshmallows roasted over a campfire may be a staple of American childhood, but few realize the pillowy treats were invented in 19th-century France, where they are bouncing back into foodie fashion.

Sweet or salty, flavored with fruit, flowers, vegetables -- even fish -- classic versions and novel takes on the puffy pastel-colored cubes are winning a new fan base.

A formerly blind Sumatran orangutan can see her baby twins for the first time after undergoing cataract surgery in the first such operation in Indonesia.

The orangutan, named Gober, was captured for her own safety in late 2008 in North Sumatra province after she went blind in both eyes due to cataracts. She gave birth to the twins in early 2011 as part of a breeding program.

A man stole a physician's identity and pretended to be a doctor for a year in South Carolina, and now investigators are combing through medical records to see whether he harmed any of the hundreds of patients he treated, authorities said.

Ernest Addo of Austell, Ga., is charged with unlawful practice of medicine and obtaining goods under false pretense, authorities said.

A U.S. railroad engineer and self-described "hillbilly" is less than impressed that the tax man is getting a big chunk of the $337 million he won in the latest Powerball lottery.

Donald Lawson, 44, of Lapeer, Michigan, who retains the accent of his native Arkansas, came forward on Friday as the winner of the seventh-biggest jackpot in U.S. lottery history.

Coca-Cola has been available at private markets in North Korea for more than a decade even if the U.S. soft drink maker has not opened business in the communist state, defectors from the North said Saturday.

A clip featuring Coke being served in what is said to be a pizza restaurant in Pyongyang recently attracted attention on video sharing site YouTube.

Hundreds of people pushed, prodded and stretched their way to a new world record for the biggest simultaneous group massage, in the Thai capital Bangkok on Thursday, organizers said.

A total of 1,282 entrants took part in the event at a convention center, smashing the previous Guinness World Record of 526 people set in Daylesford, Australia, in March 2010.

Arizona's Republican governor Jan Brewer has been left red-faced -- again -- after mistakenly endorsing President Barack Obama in a live television interview.

The hardline Republican, who famously suffered a televised "brain freeze" in 2010 -- and had a public stand-up row with Obama when he visited Arizona this year -- made the gaffe Wednesday night.