BEIJING (AFP) - Single people in China have come up with an innovative way of pleasing their pushy parents during the annual Lunar New Year holiday -- they are renting fake dates.
PARIS (AFP) - French celebrity intellectual Bernard-Henri Levy has been caught red-faced quoting a "Botulist" philosopher who, it turns out, was invented as a joke by a journalist from a satirical weekly.
BEIJING, China (Reuters) - For Chinese singles in the market for love this Valentine's day, a Beijing supermarket may offer just what they're looking for.
BERLIN (Reuters) - A thief in the German town of Hamelin robbed an amusement arcade by threatening the attendant with a cup of coffee, authorities said on Tuesday.
SYDNEY/LONDON (Reuters) - British broadcaster ITV pleaded guilty to animal cruelty and was fined by an Australian court on Monday after a rat was killed and eaten on the reality TV show "I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here."