An Indian high school teacher, with a monthly salary of around $700, was astounded when a routine online check of his bank account showed a balance of almost $10 billion.

Eleven inmates in north Iraq dug an 80-metre (260-foot) underground tunnel without the authorities' knowledge and escaped to freedom on Saturday, the "surprised" prison's governor said.

An Australian woman has won the right to pocket the Aus$100,000 ($101,000) she won on a slot machine, after a casino agreed to pay her the money she won with another gambler's abandoned dollar.

A gifted young Taiwanese violin student faced the music Friday after leaving a rare violin worth more than $170,000 on a bus, police said.

Legendary Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman not only wrote riveting movie scripts: his 32 notes -- some angry and annoyed -- to his housekeeper were auctioned off Wednesday for 44,000 kronor (4,800 euros, $6,300).

Arkansas mom Michelle Duggar, whose family of 19 children is the subject of a TV reality show, said Friday she had miscarried her 20th.

Egypt will close the Great Pyramid of Giza on Friday to avoid any rituals by a group rumoured to have plans to mark the date of 11/11/11 at the site, an official said.

Thousands of Chinese couples are reportedly planning to get married on Friday, dubbed "singles' day" in China because the date is made up entirely of the number one.

Arkansas mom Michelle Duggar proudly announced to the world Tuesday she's expecting -- but her 19 other children got to hear the news first.

A 50-cent share in merchant bank Lehman Brothers, whose collapse in September 2008 sparked the world economic and financial crisis, fetched 24,000 euros ($33,000) at an auction in Germany Saturday.