HANOI, Feb 23 (AFP) - A poverty-stricken 97-year-old man in Vietnam won up to 400,000 dollars in a lottery, a report said Tuesday, sparking a frenzy among relatives eager to get a piece of his new-found wealth.

BERLIN, Feb 19 (AFP) -- Postbank, which has Germany's biggest retail banking network, issued an embarrassing statement on Friday saying that it had miscalculated its fourth quarter loss published a day earlier.

SEOUL, Feb 18 (AFP) - A South Korean who stole 1,200 pairs of expensive shoes from funeral homes while posing as a mourner has been arrested, police in Seoul said Thursday.

IPOH, Perak: After a middle-aged couple successfully made two giant niangaos weighing 5kg each last year, they vowed to create a much bigger one this year, with the hope their oversized creation would bring more prosperity in the Year of Tiger.

GENEVA, Feb 16 (AFP) -- A trucker who ate evidence of breaking Swiss speed limits has paid the price -- a stomach ache from swallowing the discs which recorded his driving, police said Tuesday.

DUBAI, Feb 15 (AFP) -- A Saudi Arabian student has racked up 400 traffic violations since 2008 in Dubai for a grand total of 356,000 dirhams (97,000 dollars) in fines, local media reported on Monday.

PARIS, Dec 31 (AFP) -- For only the second time in nearly two decades, December will end with Earth illuminated by a "Blue Moon," the name given to the second full moon appearing in a single month.

WASHINGTON, Dec 31 (AFP) -- Car thieves are known to roam the streets on holidays, when people are most inattentive, but it's on New Year's Day when they work the hardest, the National Insurance Crime Bureau said on Thursday.

Thanks to the sluggish economy, even the "divine pigs" need to slim down!

BEIJING: A slow mail company has emerged in China's fast developing capital city, delivering mails for customers to the "future."