North Dakota residents have a new distinction under their belts, which are likely a bit tighter after their annual french fry feeding frenzy on Thursday.

They consumed an estimated 4,518 pounds of french fries during "Potato Bowl U.S.A" week, recognizing the rampant potato industry in the Red River Valley and including a weekend University of North Dakota football game.

Bet he didn't see that one coming! A French amateur psychic's powers are under serious scrutiny after his crystal ball starts a fire that engulfs his apartment.

British tabloid The Times

A French fireman has admitted to starting several of his own fires.

Jean-Yves Gauthier, 40, has confessed to starting seven blazes since 2003, including three in the past two weeks, according to reports.

A French fireman admits to starting seven forest fires in Southern France Thursday, after police find incriminating evidence at his home.

The fireman, who regularly spoke to journalists reporting on forest fires in the Var region, had been suspected for some time.

A bone found on a British beach is all set to revive an interesting myth of that region that says that a monkey washed ashore during the Napoleonic Wars was executed by apprehensive local people for being a French spy.

Police in Hartlepool, on the northeast coast of England, said that the one-foot bone found on a beach last month was not of any human being, instead it came from a monkey or gorilla.