Once upon a time before the Internet, pornography fans collected magazines. Now a London firm is helping people whose dead relatives leave collections behind to get rid of them -- discreetly, of course.

Say your father has died and you find his pornography collection hidden in a cupboard. Too embarrassed to tell your mother or put it out with the trash? Try calling Webuyanyporn, founded nine months ago to deal with such awkward situations.

A couple in Seattle whose 8-year-old daughter feeds crows and pigeons is being sued by neighbors who say the birds have damaged their property.

Seattlepi.com ( http://bit.ly/1DJ5iHi ) reports the lawsuit filed Monday in King County Superior Court seeks more than $200,000 for damages as well as a court order limiting Lisa and Gary Mann and their daughter to setting out at most one-quarter pound of animal food each day.

Los Angeles has been blackballed.

The city has completed a program of covering open-air reservoirs with floating "shade balls" to protect water quality.

McDonald's France was forced to apologize Wednesday following the emergence of an internal note reportedly ordering staff not to hand out food to "tramps" at a restaurant on the swish Cote d'Azur.

The note was revealed on Twitter by consumer group "60 Million Consumers".

Pope Francis isn't scheduled to touch down in the U.S. until September, but he's already popped up at a Philadelphia Phillies game and at the Battleship New Jersey.

Cardboard cutouts of the pontiff have been appearing all over the Philadelphia region, generating buzz around his upcoming trip.

Fans of Burger King's chicken fries may have the boy band One Direction and the website Buzzfeed to thank for the return of the skinny fried sticks.

At an event to hype a spicy version of the chicken fries coming out this week, Burger King said it decided to resurrect the fries last year after seeing the enthusiasm they generated on social media.

An Australian father so fed up with the taxpayer-funded travel perks given to politicians that he asked them to fund his family's holiday has received an overwhelming response -- from the public.

Father-of-three Stephen Callaghan established a GoFundMe page, entitled "Please Pay For My Kids' Holiday" asking federal politicians to give his children the same travel entitlements their own receive.

Two base jumpers who skydived off the World Trade Center "sullied the memories" of victims of the 9/11 attacks, a New York judge said Monday, slapping them with hefty sentences of community service.

James Brady, 33, who was a steel worker at the site, and "ring leader" Andrew Rossig, 34, avoided jail sentences but were ordered to carry out 250 and 200 hours of community service respectively, and each was fined $2,000.

An Alabama family drove to Colorado to be reunited with their dog Boozer on Saturday after a 9-year separation.

Boozer, now 10, had gone missing while the family was moving from Tennessee to Alabama.

Snorting smoke and wearing an "I love Wildwood" T-shirt, King Kong again clings to a 60-foot lighthouse towering over the shore town's boardwalk. Eight vintage planes circle the gorilla, bringing riders 26 feet in air.

For most of the 1970s, the giant ape ride graced Morey's Pier, only to be removed in 1980. This summer, the ferocious beast returned to a New Jersey town known for embracing nostalgia and trumpeting its kitsch.