MOSCOW, Wednesday 1 September 2010 (AFP) - Smoke and drink more, Russia's finance minister Alexei Kudrin urged citizens on Wednesday, explaining that higher consumption would help lift tax revenues for spending on social services.

NAIROBI, Wednesday 1 September 2010 (AFP) - Kenya's telecommunications regulator on Wednesday told mobile phone users to ignore swirling rumours that receiving calls from some numbers appearing in red can cause brain haemorrhage.

KUWAIT CITY, Wednesday 25 August 2010 (AFP) - A Kuwaiti MP proposed Wednesday state-aid for male citizens to take second wives, in a bid to reduce the large number of unmarried women in the oil-rich emirate.

BANGKOK, Monday 9 August 2010 (AFP) - The Thai government has warned that a South Korean-inspired fashion craze for black leggings could be putting teenagers at risk of catching potentially deadly dengue fever.

GENEVA, Sunday 1 August 2010 (AFP) - Swiss police are testing a new generation of super cameras that are able to detect up to 10 kinds of traffic offences, local newspaper Le Matin Dimanche reported Sunday.

BAHAU (Negeri Sembilan): An English teacher of a tutorial centre recently brought her students out of their classroom to learn kitchen appliance terms in a shop.

SYDNEY, Thursday 22 July 2010 (AFP) - An Aussie university is probing one of the most prominent features of Australian life: the national habit of shortening words.

KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday 17 July 2010 (AFP) - A 108-year-old Malaysian woman has reunited with her husband, a man 70 years her junior, after a year-long separation as he completed drug treatment.

MUMBAI, Tuesday 13 July 2010 (AFP) - They have been credited with supernatural or paranormal properties since the days of ancient Egypt. Now the putative power of pyramids is to be harnessed by Indian police to cut road accidents.

TOKYO, Monday 28 June 2010 (AFP) - There is no room for romance on board the cosy confines of the International Space Station, a NASA space shuttle commander said Monday when asked what would happen if astronauts had sex in space.