JAKARTA, Monday 7 June 2010 (AFP) - Estimates of the size and composition of Indonesia's booming population may remain just that despite an ongoing census, if the "discovery" of a 157-year-old woman is anything to go by.

SAN SALVADOR, May 13 (AFP) - Authorities in El Salvador said Thursday that they have unearthed some 300 tonnes of expired medicine buried years ago, and apparently forgotten, raising fears of ground water contamination.

LOS ANGELES, May 6 (AFP) - A Los Angeles couple who hit the 266-million-dollar jackpot in a multi-state lottery said Thursday that the bumper payday would not change them.

LOS ANGELES, May 6 (AFP) - A woman worker at a Los Angeles television station and her husband struck it lucky to win the 266-million-dollar jackpot in the multi-state Mega Millions lottery draw, reports said Wednesday.

When he was 15, a cigarette and beer salesman, who came to his father's coffee shop to promote new products, gave him a beautiful beer key chain. Since then, he fell into the world of key chains.

TOULOUSE, April 15 (AFP) - A letter mistakenly sent in 1790 to the French village of Saix instead of another town called Seix will soon be delivered to its proper destination, officials said Thursday.

TRIANG, PAHANG: A man in Triang grew a prolific papaya tree that could bear up to 30 papayas at a time without fertilising.

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.