If you tell your mum she's fleek, she probably won't get the compliment -- social media is driving a rapid evolution of the English language that is leaving parents baffled, a study suggested Friday.

A survey of 2,000 British parents found that 86 percent think teenagers speak an entirely different language on social media and messaging.

A New Jersey man is accused of stealing enough musical equipment to outfit quite a few bands.

Philadelphia police said Friday that Jason Mackenzie of Berlin, New Jersey, has been charged with burglary and related offenses in a break-in at a self-storage unit on Castor Avenue.

A Tennessee woman who ran the Boston Marathon is looking for the man she kissed on a dare.

Barbara Tatge says her daughter, Paige, dared her to kiss a random, good-looking man and take a photo of it as she ran her first Boston Marathon on April 20.

From baby fashion to specially-minted coins, here is an A to Z on the birth of Prince William and his wife Kate's second child, due to be born shortly after his mother went into labor earlier on Saturday.

The water is icy cold, it's windy and it's drizzling out, but the intrepid group dives in: far from California's sunny beaches, die-hard surfers flock here year-round to catch the Arctic's cool waves.

Situated at the same latitude as northern Siberia and Alaska, Unstad Beach in Norway's idyllic Lofoten Islands is a favorite spot for surfers seeking out a completely different kind of beach experience. 

Police were picking up some bad vibrations from a buzzing mailbox in a Pennsylvania town, enough to prompt them to shut down the town square for a couple of hours.

Bellefonte police Chief Shawn Weaver says the "vibrating noise, like an alarm going off" was reported at about 10 a.m. Tuesday. Because police couldn't be sure what was causing it, Penn State bomb experts and state police were called in, and a section of downtown was cordoned off until about 12:30 p.m.

A suburban Denver 4-year-old came home from school disappointed, with untouched Oreos and a note from her teacher.

Denver news station KMGH-TV reports (http://bit.ly/1P6770A ) that preschooler Natalee Pearson told her mom Friday that she wasn't allowed to eat the cookies in her lunchbox.

Some companies boast of making beer with spring water from majestic mountains.

They won't be competing in the upcoming Pure Water Brew Challenge, in which an Oregon wastewater treatment operator has asked home brewers to make great-tasting beer from hops, barley, yeast and the key, not-so-secret ingredient: treated sewer water.

They have been spotted frequenting the roof of a bar, roaming a park and "chilling" right outside a house.

Smaller than wolves and members of the dog family, at least five Coyotes have been reported across New York since the start of the year, mobilizing police and attracting bemused press attention.

Imagine you're the head of a U.S. fast-food chain in Japan that has been scandalized by a tooth-in-french-fries disaster. How do you repair the damage? Bow deeply -- and be convincing.

So it was for Sarah Casanova, the Canadian president of McDonald's Japan, whose less-than-textbook corporate mea culpa this month was an attempt at the tightly choreographed script routinely used by crisis-hit organisations.