The New Oxford American Dictionary named “unfriend” — as in deleting someone as a friend on a social network such as Facebook — its word of the year on Monday.

What word sums up 2009? How about unfriend?

It was just a routine car wash. Except there was no car - and no clothing. Four Australian men who allegedly undressed and soaped up at a car wash have been charged with exposure and public nuisance.

“They call me the hardware store,” says Requelme Abanto from his hospital bed in northern Peru. Doctors in the city of Cajamarca said they removed 1.5 pounds of metal from Abanto's stomach, including nails, coins, and rusted copper wire and scrap metal.

A T-shirt a day has kept unemployment at bay for an American man who is making about US$85,000 a year by selling advertising space on his torso.

A record-setting strand of beads has helped the city of East Providence put its recent financial woes behind it, at least for a night.

An Australian schoolgirl bidding to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world began her journey Sunday, despite urgings from officials to abandon the perilous endurance test.

Lionel Clement's training regimen for a scrumdidlyumptious showdown in Paris with 18 other chocolate chefs would make Willy Wonka himself proud.

A group of more than 300 Australian university students grooved their way into the history books Tuesday, setting a new world record for the largest ever robot dance.

A 92-year-old New Hampshire woman has celebrated her birthday by sky-diving from a plane at 13,000 feet.