A Michigan man was killed when a dog fell off a freeway overpass and crashed through his car windshied. Police in suburban Detroit say Charles G. Jetchick, 81, died Wednesday from injuries suffered in the accident. A passenger in the car sustained minor injuries.

A 20-year-old California Institute of Technology student set a new world's record Saturday for solving the popular Rubik's Cube puzzle -- he lined up the colors on the braintwisting cube in 11. 13 seconds. His quick time beat the previous record by more than half a second -- it was set by Frenchman Jean Pons at the Dutch Open competition last year.

For one Utah wife, this year's gift may seem a bit odd. Eric Botterbrodt gave his wife a dumpster this year, as a way for him to give her what she really wanted - for him to clean out the family's garage.

A news study shows that while elephants like the taste of booze, they are not actually getting drunk when eating marula fruit. The findings, published in the journal Physiological and Biochemical Zoology,Reuters

Most American households toss out unwanted solicitations from credit card companies, home equity E-Z: checks, offers for loan consolidation and even catalogs and magazines with our names and addresses printed on them. "It is easy to just throw all that stuff in the trash, but we are doing a great deal of damage. To our planet and potentially to our pocket books," says Anthony Castellano, president of ShredJunkMail. com.