Australia's rugby league bosses have told the Canberra Raiders they expected "appropriate" action to be taken against Joel Monaghan after a photograph of the player simulating a sex act with a dog was posted on the internet.
Books on President Barack Obama and his posters bearing his image are selling fast in New Delhi and Mumbai, the two cities he is visiting on a trip to India.
A statue of Jesus Christ that its builders say will be the largest in the world is fast rising from a Polish cabbage field and local officials hope it will become a beacon for tourists.
Albert Einstein's pipe, Irving Berlin's piano and Jonas Salk's test tubes are just a few of the historic items in a new museum that celebrates Jewish life in America.
A nation renowned for the art of queuing may be losing its patience, a survey has shown, with the average British adult able to stand in line for only 10 minutes and 42 seconds before tempers start to fray.
There are dog people, there are people who read dog books and there are people who write dog books. (Many of them.)
The Shanghai Expo's Culture Center is set to become the city's conversation piece with its re-branding as a "365-day-a-year lifestyle destination". Mu Qian reports
Bowing to resistance to a smoking ban imposed on the nation's bars and cafes more than two years ago, the new Dutch government has opted to partially reverse the health measure for small pubs.
An Australian rural community desperate to encourage new families to move in and revitalize the town is offering to rent farm houses to interested families for one Australian dollar a week.
Sanrio, the maker of Hello Kitty character goods, said on Thursday it planned to object to a Dutch court ruling that its rabbit character Cathy too closely resembled Miffy, a popular Dutch rabbit character.
A French nun who held the Guinness Book of Records title for world's oldest person has died on the Caribbean island of Saint Barthelemy at the age of 114, the French government said on Thursday.
A nation renowned for the art of queuing may be losing its patience, a survey has shown, with the average British adult able to stand in line for only 10 minutes and 42 seconds before tempers start to fray.
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