AIZAWL, March 12 (AFP) - A troupe of 10,780 tribal villagers in India's northeast set a record Friday for the largest dance ensemble in the world with a carefully choreographed routine to welcome in the summer.

NEW YORK, March 4 (AFP) - Police in New Jersey ordered a snow sculpture modeled on the famous nude Venus de Milo to be covered up after a neighbor complained, the artist said Thursday.

SYDNEY, March 4 (AFP) - A few clippings of hair apparently taken from Napoleon Bonaparte on his deathbed have been found in Sydney's Town Hall after the 130-year-old building cleaned out its vaults.

SYDNEY, March 1 (AFP) - Over 5,000 naked people braved a chilly morning to join a mass photo shoot at Sydney's Opera House on Monday, putting a nude twist on the Australian landmark.

KATHMANDU, Feb 27, 2010 (AFP) - Each year, Nepalese youth in two villages in the south of the Himalayan country save up their choicest insults for a 10-day "cursing festival" that reaches its climax Sunday.

PAK CHONG, Feb 26 (AFP) - They sport leather chaps and wide-brimmed hats, and dance to country music performed on a stage filled with line dancers in a celebration of the spirit of America's Wild West.

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.

HONG KONG, Feb 15 (AFP) -- Hong Kong's luck will improve in the Year of the Tiger according to the results of an annual Lunar New Year fortune-telling ceremony held on Monday.

KATHMANDU, Feb 15 (AFP) -- Nepal's head of state on Monday dispensed with a centuries-old tradition of having five virgin girls bid him goodbye as he left on a foreign visit, an aide said.

KOTA BHARU, KELANTAN: Although there is a hearsay saying that "tiger dance" carries the ominous meaning of "eating up", it is still introduced to Kelantan by the Wei Yang Sport Club.