Twin sisters in Ohio gave birth to two baby boys two hours apart on New Year's Eve, a newspaper reported Wednesday.

Identical twins Aimee and Ashlee Nelson, 19, used to dress alike as young girls and both got pregnant about the same time, the Akron Beacon Herald reported.

India's communications minister, already a poet in his spare time, has found another outlet for his creative ambitions: penning a slushy love song for a new Bollywood film.

Despite his challenging role as a minister and government troubleshooter, Kapil Sibal took up an offer by actor-director Aditya Om for the film "Bandook" (Gun) and wrote four songs, one of which made it into the movie.

An Afghan prisoner murdered his wife during a conjugal visit, allegedly because she had been unfaithful after he was jailed for killing her relatives, police said Wednesday.

Din Mohammad was sentenced to 20 years in prison two years ago for killing his mother-in-law, and his wife's brother and sister in the northern province of Samangan.

A record 40,000 people braved icy temperatures on the Netherlands's North Sea coast Tuesday to take a cold plunge, setting a new record for the traditional New Year's Day dip, organizers said.

"There were around 10,000 swimmers in Scheveningen and a record number of 40,000 across the Netherlands," spokeswoman Jiske Barten said.

A shy New York woman whom no one took to be wealthy left a shockingly happy surprise when she died: $20 million in donations to the city's libraries and main park.

Mary McConnell Bailey lived modestly and volunteered at a hospital and schools, before dying at 88 last year, the New York Post newspaper reported Tuesday.

With reggae music pumping and disco lights flashing, members of a Colorado recreational pot club lit up in celebration of the new year — and a new place to smoke legally.

Club 24 in Denver was one of two Colorado clubs that were believed to be the first legal pot dens in the nation. It opened at 4:20 p.m. Monday, with some 200 people paying $29.99 to join the bring-your-own pot club.

Spoiler alert: This story contains words and phrases that some people want to ban from the English language. "Spoiler alert" is among them. So are "kick the can down the road," ''trending" and "bucket list."

All are on the 38th annual List of Words to be Banished from the Queen's English for Misuse, Overuse and General Uselessness. The nonbinding, tongue-in-cheek decree released Monday by northern Michigan's Lake Superior State University is based on nominations submitted from the United States, Canada and beyond.

A Pennsylvania newspaper has just received a calendar to help ring in the new year — except the year is 1950.

Scranton's The Times-Tribune reports (http://bit.ly/S23ykD ) a mail carrier delivered it 63 years late without explanation on Friday.

Excuse me, waiter, but why is my caipirinha glowing?

Researchers in Brazil say they've found a faster way to age the liquor used to make the country's signature cocktail -- zap it with gamma radiation for a few minutes, rather than let it sit in barrels.

A speeding passenger train killed five elephants when it ploughed into a herd crossing the track in eastern India, a railway spokesman said Monday.

The train struck the animals on Sunday near the Khallikote forest range in Orissa state's Ganjam district, some 120 kilometers (74 miles) south of the state capital Bhubaneshwar.