A New Zealand-born drug dealer kept the body of his former stripper girlfriend frozen in a plastic bin in his California hotel room for up to a year, it was reported last Tuesday.

Two planes were forced to circle over a Greek island awaiting permission to land on Monday after an air traffic controller overslept and was late for work, Greece's civil aviation authority said.

A pig the size of a Shetland pony has trapped an Australian woman in her village home, the national broadcaster reported Tuesday.

Three executives dubbed "Germany's stupidest bankers" in the press have been suspended from state bank KfW over erroneous transfers of more than 500 million euros to the bankrupt Lehman Brothers, the KfW said.

A guest at a Dutch hotel found a live, 2.5 metre python in the toilet, alerting authorities who arrested four people for illegally trading in rare animals, news agency ANP said Tuesday.

An Austrian hunter tried to shoot down a parked car, mistaking it for a wild boar late Friday near Schmiedrait, in eastern Austria, the national news agency APA reported.

A young Scotsman working as a postal carrier in the German business capital failed to deliver the mail for over a year and horded or disposed of at least 20,000 letters, police said Tuesday.

A Rio de Janeiro drug gang used alligators to terrify residents of the slum they ran, and possibly even to make the bodies of murdered rivals "disappear," police said.

A former security guard in central China passed himself off as a police officer for three years before being caught, fooling even his wife, state media reported Thursday.

Scores of angry women have protested against the mayor of their outback Australian town after he said fat and unattractive females often found love and happiness in the remote mining community.