Even the head of the highest court in the land has to report for jury duty.

John Roberts, the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, showed up for jury duty Wednesday in a Maryland county court in the Washington suburbs, Supreme Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg told Agence France Presse.

One startup founder is making his own effort to respond to the issue of income inequality -- cutting his own pay while seriously boosting that of his employees.

Dan Price, founder and chief executive of payment processing startup Gravity Payments, has cut his own salary by 90 percent to set a $70,000 annual minimum wage at the firm.

The head of Spain's opposition Socialist party apologized on Wednesday for mistakenly voting in favor of a bid by the ruling conservative party to reopen a debate on the country's progressive abortion legislation.

"I deeply regret my error," Pedro Sanchez told reporters.

Astronaut Chris Hadfield is taking music to intergalactic heights with the first album written and recorded in space.

The debut album by the Canadian, 55, who skyrocketed to stardom in 2013 with his take of David Bowie's "Space oddity," will be launched in the fall.

An iPad that belonged to Argentina-born Pope Francis went under the hammer for $30,500 on Tuesday, auctioneers in Uruguay said.

Montevideo-based auction house Castells said the winning bid was placed by telephone.

Orange County authorities are trying to catch a rare Egyptian goose that has an arrow through its neck.

The Orange County Register (http://bit.ly/1aQTm8R ) says the non-native bird was first reported to animal control officers about a week ago near the Anaheim Hills Golf Course.

A golfer vowed on Tuesday to get back on the course after being bitten by a crocodile as he retrieved a ball from a water trap during a round in Australia.

John Lahiff, 75, was playing at the Palmer Sea Reef Golf Course in Port Douglas, 70 kilometers (43 miles) north of popular tourist town Cairns, on Monday afternoon when he hooked his ball into the water on the 11th hole.

An Alaska Airlines plane made an emergency landing in Seattle Monday after a gate worker in the northwestern U.S. city fell asleep in the cargo hold before takeoff, and wound up trapped. 

The airline said in a statement that the pilot on flight 448 made an emergency landing after hearing knocking sounds coming from below.

A maths problem that first appeared in a test for Singapore's elite high school students has baffled Internet users around the world after it went viral, prompting a rush of attempts to solve it.

The question, involving a girl asking two boys to guess her birthday after giving them scant clues, first appeared in an April 8 test organised by the Singapore and Asian School Math Olympiads (SOSMA). 

A deep pocketed Japanese department store shelled out an eye-watering 300,000 yen ($2,500) Monday for a pair of mangoes, a record price for the second year in a row.

After the hammer fell at an auction in far-southern Miyazaki, the successful bidder airlifted the fruit to its luxury shop in Fukuoka, where they went on sale at a bargain 210,000 yen, according to the Miyazaki Agricultural Economic Federation.