Barack Obama, Bin Laden, Zidane and Father Christmas all failed in bids to win local elections held in Brazil on the weekend, officials here said.

British department store Selfridge's on Sunday launched a new up-scale chocolate treat - the "Credit Crunch" - for shoppers looking for comfort food amid the international financial crisis.

A Russian man faces a jail term after eating part of his ex-wife's passport.

A New Zealand-born drug dealer kept the body of his former stripper girlfriend frozen in a plastic bin in his California hotel room for up to a year, it was reported last Tuesday.

Squeamish men look away now: a Serbian chef is bringing out a no-holds-barred guide to cuisine with a twist: "The Testicle Cookbook: Cooking With Balls."

Two planes were forced to circle over a Greek island awaiting permission to land on Monday after an air traffic controller overslept and was late for work, Greece's civil aviation authority said.

Unfavourable winds on Sunday forced a Frenchman to abandon his latest attempt to cross the English Channel in a pedal-powered airship, his support team said.

Do you find that the Renault Twingo has a smiling face? That the VW Beetle looks startled? The Trabant is sad? And a BMW looks angry?

A pig the size of a Shetland pony has trapped an Australian woman in her village home, the national broadcaster reported Tuesday.

An Australian man known around the world for giving free hugs to anyone who asks has said he plans to go one step further by donating one of his kidneys to a stranger, a report said Sunday.