Only in Tokyo could you hire a cat out for an hour and stroke it while you have a cappuccino -- or better still, while a robot cooks your noodles for you.
Congo's army has suspended an officer accused of drinking with the enemy ahead of a militia attack that the United Nations said left six soldiers dead, a top army commander said Tuesday.
The world's only catalog of known plants and animals has listed 1.9 million species globally, a rise of 114,000 on a study done three years ago, Australian researchers said Tuesday.
Find a reasonable excuse to waste the food? Let's fight with food for fun.
A fan of TV illusionist Derren Brown has claimed that he was left immobilised for 12 hours after watching one of his recent shows.
Guido Westerwelle, who is widely expected to become foreign minister in the next German government, admonished a reporter who asked him a question in English on Monday, saying: "We're in Germany here."
Top Pentagon officials are calling for an end to the U.S. military's historical ban on allowing women to serve in submarines.
A man in South Africa has married four brides at the same time.
Iraq has seen a surge in lavish weddings during what has been the country's most festive and peaceful Muslim holiday in years, with party goers shrugging off security worries and dancing late into the night.
Gone midnight on the last Saturday in summer and the young people in the square drinking cocktails and beer slur as they chant: "Happy birthday, son of a b---h..."
Three men who went to meet a woman at the Xi'an railway station were beaten after the woman mistook them for thieves.
More than 190 couples in Zhongyuan district of Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan province, got divorced in August, 54 more than the previous month.