A 27-year-old landscaper is one lucky guy: The Boston man escaped with barely a scratch after a nearly 3-inch nail hurtled into his eye when he accidentally hit it with a weed-whacker.

Doctors who removed the nail at Massachusetts General Hospital describe the case in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine.

The giant Olympic rings that were a centerpiece of the 2000 Games, adorning the Sydney Harbour Bridge, have been sold on ebay after being discovered gathering dust in a factory.

The five massive rings, measuring 70 meters by 40 meters (229 by 131 feet) and weighing 40 to 50 tonnes, were listed online by Bernard Maas who found them abandoned in a shed on a property he bought in New South Wales state.

A northeastern Connecticut boarding school student has videotaped himself asking his girlfriend to go to prom with him while jumping out of an airplane.

WVIT-TV reports (http://bit.ly/1JF3sFC ) Pomfret School student Eddie Staten saw people skydiving on his way back from Easter vacation and decided that's how he would ask his girlfriend of about two years to prom.

Daredevils have posted a heart-stopping video of them scaling one of the world's tallest buildings, currently under construction in the Chinese boom town of Shenzhen.

The duo, who identify themselves on their website as 25-year-old Vadim Makhorov and Vitaliy Raskalov, 22, climbed the Pingan International Finance Centre, which is said by designers Thornton Tomasetti to be 600 metres (1,968 feet) high.

Turkish police hunting an alleged drug smuggler "mistakenly" raided the home of the leader of the pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party (HDP), Selahattin Demirtas, local media reported Tuesday. 

Plain clothes police officers showed up at Demirtas's home in the Kurdish-majority southeastern city of Diyarbakir on Saturday, saying they were looking for a man accused of drug smuggling, Hurriyet daily reported.

A Swedish peace group said Tuesday it has lowered a sonar device into the Baltic Sea off Stockholm to deter Russian submarines, emitting the message "This Way if You Are Gay".

The Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society's (SPAS) cheeky device emits the message in Morse code and is designed to scare off subs from Russia, which does not share Sweden's acceptance of homosexuality.

After months of raging tensions over Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov sought to break the ice Tuesday by giving his US counterpart John Kerry two baskets full of potatoes and tomatoes.

Kerry was in the Black Sea resort of Sochi for high-stakes talks with Lavrov and Russian President Vladimir Putin, on his first visit to Russia in two years.

A Vermont bakery owner is selling her business - for $75 and an essay.

Vermont Public Radio reports (http://bit.ly/1H9qqEq ) that those interested in owning the Mix Cupcakerie and Kitchen in Waitsfield have to write about why they want it. They have to submit the essay along with an idea for a cupcake recipe and $75 entry fee.

The busy Gare du Nord station in Paris was evacuated on Monday after a passenger attempted to board a London-bound train with an artillery shell in his backpack.

"Towards the end of the morning, a passenger heading for Britain tried to catch a train with a World War I or World War II shell in his bag," a spokesperson for national rail firm SNCF said.

Three tourists appeared in a Cambodian court Monday accused of taking photographs of their bare bottoms inside the country's famed Angkor temple complex, an official said on Monday.

Two men -- an Italian and Argentinian -- and a Dutch woman, were arrested after a guard spotted them taking the cheeky pictures at one of the temples at the ancient site on Sunday.