When does sport become science fiction? When does running, this most natural and elemental form of exercise, become less about competition and more about experimentation?

Some of the stanger stories from around the globe

Authorities in Austria were today trying to determine how a bungee jumper in Vienna’s famed Prater park became entangled in his cord and was nearly strangled.

Snowball fights in July. Mulled wine instead of wine coolers. Thermostats set on high. Spring has come and gone, fall approaches – and Europeans from Oslo to Budapest are still waiting for the summer.