A Sudanese woman was found guilty of indecency yesterday for wearing trousers in a case that has attracted worldwide attention, but she will be spared lashes, an official who attended the trial said.
Suang Puangsri, 38, holds a scorpion in his mouth at his home in Uttaradit province, 600 km (373 miles) north of Bangkok September 4, 2009.
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A pet dog that can bolt and unbolt the door of its family's housing estate in Ningxiang county of Hunan province has become the neighborhood star.
An 8-month pregnant woman was detained after she knocked down a motorcyclist with her car in Xinmi, Henan province, on Sunday.
A middle-aged woman suffered a heart attack when a pet dog suddenly pounced on her at a bank in Tianjin municipality last Saturday.
A woman has accompanied her 15-year-old daughter to a hospital in Tianjin municipality as many as eight times to convince doctors to enlarge the teenager's breasts.
President Barack Obama warned American teenagers on Tuesday of the dangers of putting too much personal information on Internet social networking sites, saying it could come back to haunt them in later life.
Busker Robert Burck has said that he is dropping out of the New York City Mayoral election because of the bureaucracy involved.
Vegan prisoners are being encouraged to phone an emergency hotline if their gaol jobs threaten their beliefs, it has emerged.
A passer-by potentially saved the life of a six-year-old boy when he caught the child after he accidentally fell from a seventh-floor apartment in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Two women working in a beauty salon in Chongqing municipality beat up a robber who had broken into the store last Tuesday.