A jilted Chinese man spent $40,000 to book four entire IMAX cinemas for first-day showings of the latest "Transformers" movie Friday to prove his ex-girlfriend was wrong when she dumped him for being poor seven years ago, he said.

"Hu Xiaoyun: I was so poor when we were in our fourth year at college in 2007 that I could not afford just two film tickets," the man said in a posting on China's Twitter-like Sina Weibo.

The video of a Lebanese man announcing his “defection” from the Italian national football team went viral over the internet on Thursday.

The video shows three men standing with the flag of Brazil hung behind them. One of them declared his “defection” following Italy's loss and announced that he will now support the Brazilian national team.

A District of Columbia couple has sued British Airways, saying the airline ruined their vacation by booking them tickets to the Caribbean island of Grenada instead of Granada, Spain.

Edward Gamson and Lowell Canaday said in their lawsuit they wanted to travel from Washington to London and then to Granada, Spain. Gamson, a dentist who has an office in Maryland, said he explained his travel plans to a British Airways agent who made the reservation.

Social media fallout from Luis Suarez's biting controversy reached Buenos Aires on Wednesday with a near namesake pleading for an end to a deluge of online insults directed at him.

"Please stop," Argentine Diego Suarez -- Twitter handle @Suarez -- urged after being mistaken for the Uruguay and Liverpool striker.

A man participating in the @HiddenCash treasure hunt finds an envelope with money in Central Park in New York on June 14, 2014

American philanthropist Jason Buzi will not be allowed to stage his quirky @Hidden Cash treasure hunt in Paris at the weekend, police said Wednesday.

A biting attack by Uruguayan striker Luis Suarez on an Italian defender at the World Cup brought gains for 167 gamblers around the world, betting company Betsafe said Wednesday.

Gamblers in about 20 countries placed bets on the player biting someone by the end of the championship at odds of 175 to 1. Betsafe said it paid out about 50,000 euros in total, marketing head Patrick Oeqvist told AFP.

Japanese scientists on Tuesday unveiled what they said was the world's first news-reading android, eerily lifelike and possessing a sense of humor to match her perfect language skills.

The adolescent-looking "Kodomoroid" -- an amalgamation of the Japanese word "kodomo" (child) and "android" -- delivered news of an earthquake and an FBI raid to amazed reporters in Tokyo.

An Illinois university's typo is getting national attention.

Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communication recently gave 30 diplomas to graduates on which the word "integrated" was spelled without the 'n.'

Bolivia's congress has a new clock -- and its numbers run counterclockwise, in homage to the people of the southern hemisphere, local authorities said Tuesday.

The new bronze clock replaces a traditional time piece with Roman numerals on the legislative building in the heart of La Paz, which was first inaugurated in 1905.

Police didn't have to work hard to catch a man who broke into a Minnesota house.

First the burglar failed to log out of Facebook after checking his profile on the homeowner's computer. Then he agreed to meet up with homeowner James Wood in an effort to get back wet clothes he'd left behind.