A couple walk past a sculpture by Colombian artist Fernando Botero at the Botero Park in Medellin in February 2010. Colombian police said Saturday they had discovered 16 kilograms (35 pounds) of cocaine stashed in replicas of sculptures by Botero int…... [more »]

Date: 13 March 2010, 2:53 pm

People walk near the Georgian Orthodox Sioni Cathedral in central Tbilisi in February 2010. Georgian criminals could be swapping prison uniforms for cassocks under a new scheme to allow offenders to serve out their sentences in monasteries.(AFP/File/…... [more »]

Date: 12 March 2010, 10:57 am

A novel idea by a hard-up east German village to sell its potholes to finance their repair looked Friday to have got off to a good start, with 111 already snapped up, the official website showed.(AFP/DDP/File/Philipp Guelland)... [more »]

Date: 12 March 2010, 9:57 am

NYPD patrol car in Manhattan. Instead of resting in peace, the body of a recently deceased man ended up in New York's equivalent of Purgatory: the city tow pound for illegally parked cars.(AFP/Getty Images/File)... [more »]

Date: 12 March 2010, 9:24 am

Mizo tribal youths take part in a mass "Cheraw", a traditional bamboo dance in Aizawl, the capital of India's northeastern Mizoram state. The troupe of 10,780 tribal villagers set a record for the largest dance ensemble in the world wit…... [more »]

Date: 12 March 2010, 9:16 am

A cat in Germany escaped with just a burnt paw after travelling at speeds of up to 160 kilometres (100 miles) per hour on the motorway under the bonnet of a car(AFP/File/Jose Luis Roca)... [more »]

Date: 12 March 2010, 4:34 am

A court ruled Thursday against three French pensioners appealing for ownership of Fouquet's, an iconic Paris restaurant on the Champs Elysees seen here, in a legal battle that has gone on for half a century.(AFP/File/Fred Dufour)... [more »]

Date: 11 March 2010, 11:44 am

Bulgarian media launched a humorous campaign against the country's potholed streets Thursday, urging a disgruntled public to photograph and name the worst craters they could find. A major demonstration on the same issue has been scheduled on Marc…... [more »]

Date: 11 March 2010, 11:03 am

Nicolas Sarkozy left interpreters befuddled at an environment conference in Paris when he said world leaders had been handed a draft text "similar to volapuk." It turns out Volapuk is a language invented in the late 19th century by a German…... [more »]

Date: 11 March 2010, 9:37 am

England footballer Peter Crouch (left), has been named the funniest man in British sport, topping a poll of the best one-liners and comedy football moments of all time.(AFP/File/Andrew Yates)... [more »]

Date: 11 March 2010, 9:29 am

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