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BERLIN (Reuters) - A painstaking two-year investigation to determine which of two skulls belonged to Friedrich Schiller has found neither is a match, prolonging a 180-year-old mystery over the celebrated German poet's remains.</img> </img> </img> </img> Reuters

BERLIN (Reuters) - A painstaking two-year investigation to determine which of two skulls belonged to Friedrich Schiller has found neither is a match, prolonging a 180-year-old mystery over the celebrated German poet's remains.</img> </img> </img> </img> Reuters

BEIJING (Reuters) - China opened the world's longest cross-sea bridge last week aiming to cut travel time between two major ports, but hundreds of drivers have been fined already for, unexpectedly, driving too slow to enjoy the view.</img> </img> </img> </img> Reuters

BERLIN (Reuters) - The head of Germany's Social Democrats, who has ambitions to be his country's next leader, is thinking about donating his beard to charity, but is not quite sure.</img> </img> </img> </img> Reuters

BERLIN (Reuters) - The head of Germany's Social Democrats, who has ambitions to be his country's next leader, is thinking about donating his beard to charity, but is not quite sure.</img> </img> </img> </img> Reuters

NEW YORK (Reuters) - How would you like a film role with Johnny Depp, tea with Alan Greenspan or tennis lessons from Andre Agassi?</img> </img> </img> </img> Reuters

TOKYO (Reuters) - A city bureaucrat in western Japan was suspended from his job after officials discovered he visited porn websites at work almost every day, often spending hours gazing at nude photos, a city official said.</img> </img> </img> </img> Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Baby birds babble much like human infants do, and they have their own special brain circuits to do it, researchers reported on Thursday.</img> </img> </img> </img> Reuters

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Inmates in 58 county jails across New York are getting playing cards with the pictures of missing persons in hopes the photos will jog memories and help solve cold cases.</img> </img> </img> </img> Reuters

PARIS (Reuters) - If anyone was wondering where French avant-garde novelist Michel Houellebecq got his talent for character assassination, the answer is clear: his mother.</img> </img> </img> </img> Reuters

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Some dinosaur dung was snapped up at auction in New York even as a 4.5 billion year old meteorite which was supposed to top the sale went unsold.</img> </img> </img> </img> Reuters

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - One Indian cricket team has withdrawn cheerleaders from matches while others are being told to cover up, after protests that their dances and skimpy outfits were offensive to conservative Indians. </img> </img> </img> </img> Reuters

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Families who claim the corpses of more than 1,000 relatives were dismembered and sold in an illegal body-parts scandal sued funeral directors and others on Tuesday. </img> </img> </img> </img> Reuters

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - As U.S. gasoline prices hit records on almost a daily basis, an increasing number of motorists are following a radical driving technique designed to eke out every last mile from a tank of fuel. </img> </img> </img> </img> Reuters

BERLIN (Reuters) - Police helping a German man track down a nuisance caller discovered his tormentor for two years was a faulty card payment system in a hairdresser's shop.</img> </img> </img> </img> Reuters

BEIJING (Reuters) - A 2 million yuan ($286,000) sculpture in northeastern China that took two years to build was dismantled days before its unveiling because a senior government official disliked the color, local media said on Tuesday.</img> </img> </img> </img> Reuters

DUSHANBE (Reuters) - The impoverished Central Asian nation of Tajikistan urged its people on Tuesday to give up their salaries to help build a new hydroelectric plant.</img> </img> </img> </img> Reuters

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Imports of Barbie dolls and other Western toys will have destructive cultural and social consequences in Iran, the Islamic Republic's top prosecutor was quoted as saying on Monday.</img> </img> </img> </img> Reuters

BAT YAM, Israel (Reuters) - From pickled cows to elephant dung, the art world is no stranger to offbeat ideas. But a group of lice-infested Germans?</img> </img> </img> </img> Reuters

LONDON (Reuters) - Britons are ruder than they were a decade ago, according to a survey on Monday that showed almost three-quarters of people think manners should be taught at school.</img> </img> </img> </img> Reuters