U.S. football fans glued to television screens on Sundays will soon have a new way of showing their devotion to the pigskin: buying stocks linked to their favorite players.

California-based brokerage house Fantex aims to raise $10.5 million in an initial public offering of shares in Houston Texans running back Arian Foster, according to documents submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission.

One man lies on his stomach on the driveway. Blood is splattered along the garage door that smashed his head and presumably killed him. Another man lies a few feet (meters) away, run over by a truck.

The scene in a middle-class Oklahoma neighborhood made of single-story homes and well-manicured lawns seems out of a horror story because, well, it is. The two accident victims are in fact dummies, created as part of a family's vivid Halloween display to shock and frighten.

Indian police commando Ganesh Raghunath Dhangade (R) poses with his family in Thane district, on the outskirts of Mumbai, on October 16, 2013

An Indian policeman who got lost as a child at a crowded railway station has been reunited with his family after 24 years -- thanks to a tattoo on his arm.

Staff in a New York lingerie shop stopped a teenage girl Thursday on suspicion of shoplifting and made a horrifying discovery of a dead fetus in her bag.

Police said they were called to the Herald Square branch of lingerie chain Victoria's Secret at lunchtime after the grim discovery was made.

A Chinese cartoon comparing Xi Jinping's ascent to power with that of Barack Obama has gone viral, leaving Internet users asking Friday whether it is a subtle piece of animated propaganda.

The Chinese-language video, which uses pictures of politicians on cartoon bodies, has been viewed nearly 1.5 million times since it was released Monday on Youku, a popular video-sharing website in China, where YouTube is banned.

Swiss customs authorities said Thursday that they had arrested a bird specialist who smuggled the eggs of protected parrots in his underwear and traveled the globe trading in rare species.

The customs service said in a statement that the man, whom it did not identify, was though to have trafficked over 150 eggs from endangered parrots that are protected by international law, as well as rare pheasant species.

Two motorcyclists face thousands of dollars in fines after being stopped in Canada's capital region with video cameras that recorded their bad driving, police said Wednesday.

The pair of Ottawa motorcyclists, aged 26 and 29, "learned, at their expense, that speed and dangerous driving can be quite costly," police said on their Facebook page.

Denmark has freed two Chinese held for 48 days after they tried to exchange a massive hoard of scrap Danish coins that were mistaken for counterfeit money, media said Wednesday.

The pair was found not guilty and released on Tuesday after the central bank and police determined the Danish kroner worth 32,765 euro ($44,207) were not fake, the daily Politiken said.

At the table, silence is golden, especially in noisy New York. That's the gamble a young restaurant owner is taking with patrons, who are prohibited from talking during four-course meals.

The project, launched a month ago at Eat in Brooklyn's fashionable Greenpoint neighborhood, has created a buzz in a city where restaurants are often so noisy that they trigger routine complaints.

Hillary Clinton may be tipped as a future U.S. president, but that did not impress a London traffic warden who slapped her vehicle with an £80 (95-euro, $130) parking fine.

The former US secretary of state was in town to receive a prize from the Chatham House think tank last week for her work in promoting "a new era of U.S. diplomatic engagement".