An unsuspecting traveller who walked away from a Tokyo airport with one million yen's worth of cannabis due to a customs blunder has returned the drugs, an official said on Friday.

It was an incredible tale of a German schoolboy spotting a miscalculation by the US space agency, proving the chances of an asteroid hitting the Earth were higher than initially believed.

But the amazing story of the whizzkid versus the space bureaucracy turned out to be wrong, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said Wednesday.

A car that can be driven underwater is set to be unveiled next month at the International Geneva Motor Show, the Swiss manufacturer of the prototype announced last Friday.

New Zealand's oldest immigrant, 102-year-old Briton Eric King-Turner, sailed into Wellington on Wednesday amid a media frenzy sparked by his decision to retire to the other side of the world.

A court in Sweden sentenced a man to three months in jail for aggravated libel for falsely informing the FBI that his former son-in-law had links to al-Qaeda.

Shanghai's metro rail authority apologised to a couple who had threatened to sue after a video of them kissing on a station platform was posted on the Internet, state media reported Friday.

A massive stash of false limbs found in the cellar of a retired British taxi driver's home are to be sent to Pakistan to help victims of the 2005 earthquake, a charity said Friday.

Moscow pet shops are reporting a run on rats, as keen astrologically-minded Russians snap them up ahead of the New Year, which is the Chinese Year of the Rat, Interfax news agency reported Monday.

A doctor at a prestigious Arizona clinic who took a photograph of a patient's tattooed penis during surgery is "no longer practicing medicine" at the center, it was confirmed Friday.

Police in Coburg are to investigate whether seven-times world champion Michael Schumacher broke the law after he got behind the wheel of a taxi last week so his family could be on time for a flight.