Electric car maker Tesla's first mass-market sedans took to the road Friday, but it's not certain whether their debut will make or break the fledgling company.

Ten of the sedans, called the Model S, rolled out the door at the company's Fremont factory during a ceremony that had the feel of a pep rally.

An audacious thief posing as an art lover snatched a Salvador Dali watercolor and ink painting worth an estimated $150,000 from a New York private art gallery this week, police said Friday.

The man walked into the Venus Over Manhattan art gallery on Madison Avenue on Tuesday afternoon, posing as a "potential customer."

A Twitter-activated vending machine is dispensing free ice tea in exchange for a Tweet in South Africa in what developers say is the world's first sampling drive via the micro-blogging site.

The robot-like machine was set up in a Cape Town mall, where it reacts to a specific hashtag to kick into action and pop out cans of the local BOS Ice Tea brand while displaying the tweeter's username.

Video of a U.S. grandmother being bullied by a busload of school kids went viral on Thursday, tugging at the heart strings of sympathetic strangers who donated more than $330,000 to send her on a trip to recover from the ordeal.

The 10-minute video of school bus monitor Karen Klein being harassed by 12- and 13-year-olds went viral shortly after it appeared on YouTube and Facebook late Tuesday.

The city of Paris is launching low cost funeral services from next month but will not skimp on quality for the final journey, officials said Thursday.

"Funerals are very expensive.... costing 3,098 euros (around $4,000) on average," said Marinette Bache, the head of the city's funeral services, adding that it's cheapest offer would be 789 euros before taxes.

Hungary's media council has fined a radio station 250,000 forints (875 euros, $1,100) for poking fun at endangered species, saying it set a bad example to children, it emerged Thursday.

Presenters on Neo FM's satirical show "Boomerang" had quipped in February that the extinction of the panda "wouldn't bother anyone since all they do is sit around and eat," while Galapagos tortoises "have lived long enough anyway."

Bulgaria's Christian Orthodox Church said Thursday it had decided to start awarding a new honorary title to major benefactors... including an arms dealer.

The title "Archon," which exists in other countries but was hitherto unknown in Bulgaria, was recently awarded to three powerful but controversial businessmen, prompting vehement criticism of the metropolitans who granted the title.

On Saturday nights, 60-year-old Sipho "Hotstix" Mabuse is on stage, thrilling South African audiences with hits from his more than four decades in music.

But on week nights, the massively popular music maker is in a classroom near his Soweto home, working to earn the high school degree he abandoned in 1969 as his music career took off.

Leave it to Italians to come up with just the thing to survive the dog days of summer: canine gelato.

This Italian ice cream for dogs contains no milk, eggs or sugar, which are harmful to canines. With temperatures in Rome topping 36 degrees Celsius (97 degrees Fahrenheit) this week, dogs are lapping up the icy treat at a pet supply store on the outskirts of the capital.

Some of Mitt Romney's sons urged him not to run for the White House this year, fearing the intense media glare of months of campaigning and perhaps years of being the nation's first family.

The five sons expressed their concerns during a rare appearance together on a late night comedy show, in which they also tried to present a more human side of their father, who they insisted was an avid prankster.