An online fundraiser for a New York grandmother whose harassment at the hands of a busload of schoolchildren was captured on video raised more than $700,000 in a month.

Bus monitor Karen Klein, 68, was ridiculed by a group of 12- and 13-year-olds about her weight, hearing aid and hairdo in a cell phone video posted to Facebook and YouTube last month.

Every Friday in Qusayr, Syrians protest against Bashar Assad, so every Thursday, a group of young artists meet in a makeshift studio to paint the placards and banners used to ridicule him.

"The day Bashar Assad falls, I will draw his face on a rocket and fire him towards the Moon, so I never have to see his face again!," Mazir, a young Syrian artist exclaims, laughing.

A man spotted dressed in a goat suit among a herd of wild goats in the mountains of northern Utah has wildlife officials worried he could be in danger as hunting season approaches.

Phil Douglass of the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources said Friday the person is doing nothing illegal, but he worries the so-called "goat man" is unaware of the dangers.

An ethics commission at the University of Bucharest on Friday said it had found that Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta had committed plagiarism in his PhD thesis.

The verdict of the commission contradicted that of a council set up by the education ministry, which on Thursday cleared the center-left premier's name after a first finding against him in June.

An online clothing boutique that used a Twitter message that seemed to try to capitalize on Friday's shooting rampage generated an avalanche of criticism on the social network.

Celeb Boutique, which lists its address in Buenos Aires, posted a tweet saying "Aurora is trending, clearly about our Kim K inspired Aurora dress," with a link to its website for a pleated dress.

A U.S. high-wire artist who crossed Niagara Falls in June is to attempt a new feat over a New Jersey beach, but this time shedding the safety harness that caused some to belittle his previous stunt.

Nik Wallenda's latest challenge, set for August 9, is to walk 1,500 feet (450 meters) some 100 feet (30 meters) above an Atlantic City beach in less than 30 minutes.

Hundreds of emails purportedly written by Syrian President Bashar Assad show he sent several sexist or irreverent messages in the months before the ongoing Syrian uprising began.

The French website owni.fr on Thursday published extracts from the latest cache of Syrian documents made avaiable by WikiLeaks, which on July 5 started releasing some 2.5 million emails it said were from Syrian political figures.

Robb Myer cannot stomach the notion of being stuck at the entrance of a restaurant waiting for word that a table is finally available.

So he and some friends, tired of ricocheting between crowded eateries in a hip San Francisco neighborhood, came up with the idea for startup "NoWait" to take the agony out of queues.

Taking crowdsourcing to new heights, Lay's potato chips is inviting consumers to go online from Friday with their ideas for a new flavor and the chance to win $1 million.

"So glad you're excited to participate!" said the PepsiCo brand, which claims to be the maker of "America's favorite snack," in a teaser on its Facebook page (www.facebook.com/lays) for its "Do Us a Flavor" promotion.

A revolutionary discovery is rewriting the history of underwear: Some 600 years ago, women wore bras.

The University of Innsbruck said Wednesday that archeologists found four linen bras dating from the Middle Ages in an Austrian castle. Fashion experts describe the find as surprising because the bra had commonly been thought to be only little more than 100 years old as women abandoned the tight corset.