BERLIN, Thursday 2 September 2010 (AFP) - Vegetarian activists in Germany's Berlin have caused a stir with an advertising campaign for a new restaurant seeking human meat "donors" and "open-minded" surgeons.

BUNOL, Wednesday 25 August 2010 (AFP) - Tens of thousands of revellers from around the world pelted each other with tonnes of tomatoes Wednesday in a mushy festival in the eastern Spanish town of Bunol.

NEW YORK, Thursday 12 August 2010 (AFP) - The diagnosis for Ron Sveden, 75, was devastating. X-rays showed a dark mass in the lung of the emphysema-sufferer and doctors concluded it could be a tumor.

PRAGUE, Wednesday 11 August 2010 (AFP) - The Czech Republic is pondering forgiving part of cash-strapped North Korea's debt in exchange for ginseng, known as a health tonic and male aphrodisiac, the finance ministry said on Wednesday.

MEDGYESEGYHAZA, Sunday 8 August 2010 (AFP) - A father and son were crowned kings of the watermelon at a festival dedicated to the fruit in a small Hungarian town Sunday.

NEW YORK, Thursday 5 August 2010 (AFP) - Japanese speed eating champ Takeru "Tsunami" Kobayashi was told by a New York judge Thursday that he no longer faces prosecution for starting a disturbance at the city's annual hotdog contest.

JAKARTA, Tuesday 20 July 2010 (AFP) - Indonesia's highest Islamic body on Tuesday abandoned a proposal to ban Muslims from drinking the world's most expensive coffee, which is extracted from the faeces of a small mammal called the civet.

TAIPEI, Thursday 8 July 2010 (AFP) - Taiwanese dentists have urged fast food chains to drop over-sized hamburgers from their menus following a growing number of jaw injury cases, a report said Thursday.

PARIS, Friday 2 July 2010 (AFP) - A towering cake vying to be the world's biggest lasted one day outdoors in Paris, brought down not by ravenous sweets lovers but a sweltering heatwave in the French capital, organisers said Friday.

KUALA SELANGOR, SELANGOR: In addition to general dinners, a restaurant in Bukit Cherakah here also attracted many car enthusiasts as it creatively turned car fronts into food stalls.