A homeless Brazilian couple that lives under the bridges of Sao Paulo found a garbage bag filled with 20,000 reels ($10,000) on a sidewalk Monday -- and promptly turned it into the police.
Officials said the pair was out for a dawn stroll when they heard an alarm.
Full StoryAn apartment in the Watergate complex, best known for the break-in that brought down President Richard Nixon in the 1970s, has sold for a record $3.1 million, the Washington Post reported Monday.
Tech entrepreneur John Lee bought the three-bedroom, 3,700 square foot (345 square meters) unit overlooking the Potomac River to complement his main home in an outer Washington suburb, the Post said on its real estate blog.
Full StoryTwo young entrepreneurs who started an award-winning international ice-cream business from scratch are urging talented Italians not to abandon their recession-hit country.
Friends Guido Martinetti and Federico Grom started their Grom ice-cream company in 2003, when the pair, in their twenties and with little capital, set out to revolutionize Italian gelato despite knowing nothing about it.
Full StoryA straggling half-tonne fighting bull skewered two Britons and an American on Monday as it turned its horns on panicked runners in Spain's Pamplona bull run.
The bull lagged behind in the pack of six huge bulls and six steers that tore through the northern city's slippery cobbled streets, surrounded by crowds of thrill-seekers dressed in white with red neck scarves.
Full StoryA Saudi princess, the granddaughter of the nation's founder, is seeking asylum in Britain over fears she could be persecuted by members of her family at home, the Sunday Telegraph reported.
Princess Sara bint Talal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, also known as the "Barbie" princess due to her pampered upbringing, said she had also applied to Britain's Home Office for political asylum for her four daughters, according to the report.
Full StoryAn orangutan that became the star attraction of an Indonesian zoo for her penchant for puffing on cigarettes will be forced to quit cold turkey, a conservationist said Saturday.
Visitors began throwing lit cigarettes into the cage of 15-year-old Tori when it was five, and the female orangutan had developed an addiction over the years, Centre for Orangutan Protection coordinator Daniek Hendarto said.
Full StoryA bride gave birth only minutes after tying the knot at a townhall wedding in western France, making it more of a "big day" than anticipated, the local mayor told Agence France Presse Sunday.
"It did rather shake us up," admitted Jean-Robert Gachet, mayor of Jallais, after hearing that mother and baby were doing well.
Full StoryA live television talk show in Jordan produced a torrent of insults, a shoe flying across the studio and a pistol being whipped out, as the host desperately tried to keep two rival politicians apart.
The show on private satellite channel Jo Sat, aired on Friday, started to spin out of control after MP Mohammad Shawabka accused former deputy Mansur Murad of working as a spy for the Syrian regime.
Full StoryBelgium's seaside resorts are threatening to sue a top weather site they say is dissuading tourists with coastal forecasts of a gloomy summer, the Belgian press reported Friday.
The resorts slammed MeteoBelgique.be, one of Belgium's most consulted weather pages, for posting a general weather overview for the three summer months, when most sites only offer a ten-day forecast
Full StoryA French court ruled Friday in favor of employees of food industry group Danone who sued their employer for imposing an English-language computer program.
The court in Vienne in south-eastern France agreed that a 1994 law outlining the "obligatory use of the French language" had to be upheld in the factory.
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