A leopard badly mauled two people including a pregnant woman on Friday after straying into the largest city in India's northeast Assam state -- the third such attack there in as many weeks.

The leopard caused panic when it wandered into a densely populated residential neighborhood in Guwahati, where it pounced on a 20-year-old man and a pregnant woman in her second trimester.

A 10-year-old French boy was apprehended by police on Thursday after taking his father's car and trying to drive it to school when he missed the bus.

The boy, who brought along a nine-year-old friend who also missed the bus, managed to make it more than two kilometers (more than a mile) in his father's Renault Megane before crashing into a roadside pylon, police in the southeastern town of Valence said.

A 16 kilo consignment of cocaine lost by Mexican drug traffickers has turned up in an unlikely place -- the United Nations in New York.

Police and U.N. officials Thursday told how two fake U.N. diplomatic pouches containing drugs -- which experts said had a street value of more than $2 million -- sparked an alert when they were delivered by accident to the global body's headquarters.

U.S. Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke is going back to school: the Fed said Thursday he will lead a series of university classes on the U.S. central bank in Washington in March.

Bernanke, an economics professor at Princeton before he became Fed chairman in February 2006, will lead four classes on "The Federal Reserve and its Role in Today's Economy" with business school undergraduates at George Washington University.

A video posted on YouTube Wednesday appeared to show the amazing voyage of a Lego man sent into space on a homemade spacecraft by two Toronto students.

Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad, both 17, used a weather balloon ordered online and a makeshift Styrofoam spacecraft to send the plastic astronaut 24 kilometers (15 miles) into the stratosphere, reports said.

Hong Kong suspended its popular cable car on Thursday after a malfunction left hundreds of tourists dangling in icy weather during the Chinese New Year holiday.

Around 800 passengers were left hanging in the air in temperatures below three degrees Celsius (37 degrees Fahrenheit) after the cable car broke down Wednesday for the fourth time in six weeks, an official said.

California police have arrested two men suspected of stealing a vintage Mercedes belonging to U.S. actor John Travolta and recovered the car -- but it was in pieces, a spokesman said.

The 1970 Mercedes-Benz 280SL was stolen last September after the "Grease" and "Pulp Fiction" star left it for only a few minutes on a Santa Monica street, while he went to visit a Jaguar dealership.

Police in Thailand said Wednesday that they had apprehended a thief with more than a thousand pairs of women's underwear in the trunk of his car.

Police also found more than ten thousand pairs at the house of the 48-year-old Thai suspect, who was arrested late Tuesday with an accomplice after breaking into a building in Bangkok's Chinatown.

Britons are more tolerant of extramarital affairs and drink-driving than they were a decade ago but more likely to condemn people cheating on welfare benefits, research showed Wednesday.

The study from the University of Essex, which questioned more than 2,000 adults about whether a range of activities could ever be justified, concluded that British people are less honest than they were 10 years ago.

Two pandas gifted to Edinburgh zoo by China received the ultimate Scottish honor on Tuesday when a special tartan designed for them was unveiled.

Yang Guang and Tian Tian have already attracted thousands of visitors to the zoo since they arrived on December 4 under a deal agreed after five years of high-level political and diplomatic negotiations.