The lofty tones fill a wood cabin on the outskirts of the emerald green meadow considered the birthplace of Switzerland, as three songs compete to become the country's new national anthem.

The choir on the screen enthusiastically belts out the tunes, all celebrating high-minded values like freedom, democracy and solidarity.

Slices from the cakes of five British royal weddings dating back up to 42 years have been put up for auction -- accompanied by a health warning that they are "not suitable for consumption".

The slices were collected by Queen Elizabeth II's late chauffeur Leonard Massey, who kept them in the original packaging offered to wedding guests with monograms to celebrate the unions.

Police investigating bad checks say they found much more: A Detroit-area impostor who inspired a 1989 award-winning film was posing like someone else — again.

William Street Jr., 64, was charged in federal court with fraud and identity theft after he was found with documents and a white doctor's coat with the name of a Maryland man, William Benn Stratton.

What's shaped like your friend and even sounds like your friend, but isn't actually your friend? Why, a human-shaped pillow with a slot in its head for a cellphone, of course.

One Japanese venture is looking to solve that problem of feeling distant when speaking on the telephone by offering cushions that look a little like small people, with a skin-like texture, that can hold your mobile device.

An effort to use a fake, life-sized orca to scare off hundreds of sea lions crowding docks off the Oregon coast ended, at least temporarily, Thursday night with the fiberglass creature belly-up after it was swamped by a passing ship.

Still, Port of Astoria Executive Director Jim Knight said the sea lions briefly "got deathly silent" when the orca sailed into view. That was just before it started listing and tipped over.

There's a new Chinese restaurant in Rochester. The name? I Don't Know.

Seriously, the I Don't Know Chinese Restaurant recently opened in the western New York city. Owner Jessie Dong tells the Democrat and Chronicle of Rochester (http://on.rocne.ws/1K98JYg ) that said she came up with the unusual name because whenever she would ask her three children what they wanted to eat, their response would be: "I don't know."

Sorry, baby, your picture isn't going to be on the front of any beer bottles in New Hampshire.

Democratic Gov. Maggie Hassan on Tuesday vetoed a measure that would have allowed some images of minors to grace alcoholic beverage labels as long as they didn't encourage young people to drink.

North Pole residents can put marijuana on their Christmas list next year.

The city council in North Pole, Alaska, rejected a measure Monday that would have banned marijuana dispensaries. Marijuana became legal in Alaska in February, and sales begin next year.

Maybe the Bank of Japan should be called the Bank of Peter Pan.

Monetary policy is notoriously tricky stuff, but for central bankers looking to validate their influential decisions it's as simple as remembering the boy who never grew up, says BoJ chief Haruhiko Kuroda.

Slathered with fake tan and flexing bulging muscles, dozens of underwear-clad bodybuilders competed for the coveted title of "Mr. Afghanistan" in a Soviet-era stadium in Kabul.

Bodybuilding is one of the most popular sports among young people in the war-battered country -- permitted even under the Taliban's hardline regime.