A single malt whisky produced by a distillery in a remote part of Scotland has beaten 1,200 whiskies from around the world to be crowned World Whisky of the Year.

The Old Pulteney whisky produced by the Pulteney distillery in Wick, northern Scotland, took the top spot in Jim Murray's respected 2012 Whisky Bible.

A U.S. man and his car are celebrating a million-mile milestone.

Joe LoCicero was given a 2012 Honda Accord at a parade in the city of Saco on Sunday after surpassing the million-mile (1.6 million-kilometer) mark on the odometer of his 1990 Accord. He reached the milestone last Thursday.

Russia's Dmitry Medvedev may be outgunned by political heavyweight Vladimir Putin with his macho judo and chest-baring antics, but on Monday he revealed a quieter passion -- for badminton.

In his video blog, Medvedev put on a tennis shirt and tracksuit bottoms to read an earnest lecture encouraging Russians to play more badminton, before slinging a few shuttlecocks across the court with his mentor, Putin.

A young Australian man has been charged with exposing himself and being a public nuisance as Britain's Queen Elizabeth II passed by, police said Monday.

Tens of thousands of people turned out to see the visiting monarch as she toured the Queensland capital, her first visit since the state was hit by devastating floods which killed more than 30 people in January.

A U.S. restaurant famous for cooking up giant hamburgers has outdone itself.

The Detroit News reports that Mallie's Sports Grill & Bar made a 338-pound (153-kilogram) "Absolutely Ridiculous Burger" on Thursday. A crowd gathered to salivate over the unveiling of the $2,000 menu item.

Soviet-era Estonian farmers ordered to send potatoes to communist ally Cuba took advantage to stash love notes in the shipments, but never got an answer, a newspaper reported Friday.

"In the spring of 1961, our Soviet collective farm got an order to pack all the potatoes we had left and prepare them to be sent to Cuba," Hans Uba, who worked as an electrician at the time, was quoted as saying by the weekly Maaleht.

Five months after a media frenzy over a U.S. preacher's "end of the world" prophesy, his faithful were awaiting Judgment Day again Friday based on his "recalculated" prediction.

Harold Camping, the evangelist of Family Radio based in Oakland, California, caused a global stir earlier this year when he predicted doomsday would occur on May 21 -- a day which came and went.

Colonel Moammar Gadhafi had a "slightly eerie obsession" with Condoleezza Rice, describing her as his "African Princess," the ex-U.S. secretary of state said in an excerpt from her memoirs published Thursday.

The late Libyan leader met Rice in the oil-rich north African country in September 2008, a historic meeting that signaled the once pariah state's return to the diplomatic table after decades of isolation.

An ultra-clean Chicago museum toilet with a calming night sky decor was named America's finest place to answer the call of nature Thursday.

The Chicago Field Museum's two family friendly restrooms were winners of the annual best public toilet contest run by workplace supplies company Cintas.

A Madrid-bound plane from Frankfurt made an unscheduled landing at Zurich airport after the crew reported an unpleasant odor and breathing problems, Swiss police said Friday.

The A320 landed at 0625 GMT and the 85 passengers and six crew disembarked without incident.