Pope Benedict XVI and his brother, Fr. Georg Ratzinger, 82, were surprised to learn this week that their parents, Joseph and Maria, met through a singles ad their father had placed in local Catholic ...

The personal ad, once disdained as the meeting place of the weird and the desperate, has vaulted into respectability among mainstream single people, many of whom are educated, hold down good jobs and, ...

A Maine man crafted a singles ad for his female duck -- after a hungry bobcat ate its fellow ducks two weeks ago -- in an attempt to find her a match and cure her broken heart. The duckling, named ...

Around 40,000 international merchants are participating in the Singles Day sale this year, and Ad Nut had a field day traversing all the campaigns designed to get human beings to shell out billions of ...