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.

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.

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 giant inflatable dog turd by American artist Paul McCarthy blew away from an exhibition in the garden of a Swiss museum, bringing down a power line and breaking a greenhouse window before it landed again, the museum said Monday.

A Colombian thief surprised by a home owner's return hid inside a closet and fell fast asleep until he was discovered and arrested on Sunday, police in the port city of Barranquilla said.

An Air India flight headed for Mumbai overshot its destination and was halfway to Goa before its dozing pilots were woken out of a deep slumber by air traffic control, a report said.

An unsuspecting passenger who flew to Tokyo is carrying one million yen's worth of cannabis compliments of customs authorities.

A Canadian woman pleaded guilty to stabbing her boyfriend nearly to death in a botched sex game in which he asked her to carve a heart-shaped symbol on his chest, a local paper said Thursday.

Australian police cruising Sydney's city centre early Wednesday morning were startled when a parachutist floated to earth and landed in front of their patrol car.

Five-time gold medalist Ian Thorpe's enthusiasm for the Olympic torch remained undimmed Thursday, even after his attempt to ignite a cauldron with the Olympic flame failed due to a technical glitch.