The skeletal remains of three people were found in a house in northern Japan, police said Friday, amid reports a family suicide could have gone unnoticed for up to a year.

The bodies were discovered in a two-storey house in Sendai after court officials visited the premises as part of a dispute the occupants had with the landlord over rent, Kyodo news reported.

A hospital in south China has suspended four medical workers for mistakenly diagnosing a stillbirth and disposing of a baby that was alive, state press said Friday.

Health authorities in Guangdong province have launched an investigation into the incident on October 26 at the Nanhai Red Cross Hospital in Foshan city, the Beijing News said.

A British man who allegedly faked his own death and made off with the life insurance payout has been arrested in Australia, police said Thursday.

Hugo Jose Sanchez, 47, also known as Alfredo, was taken into Australian Federal Police custody overnight in Sydney, the force said, ending a six-year manhunt.

An inmate at Raoushe police station’s jail set fire to his mattress at dawn Thursday after the guards prevented two of his drunken friends from visiting him, the National News Agency reported.

NNA also said that the two men broke a window at the station for failing to meet their friend.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel joked ahead of a crunch summit on the Eurozone debt crisis Wednesday that she loved Greeks "when they act reasonably".

Asked at an event marking 50 years since Germany invited Turks as "guest workers" to fill a yawning labor market gap, Merkel was asked if she didn't long for the days when integration of Turks was a major worry on her political agenda.

Doctors in Canada saw a divine face in the testes of a man admitted to a hospital with severe pain and an inflamed scrotum, a scientific journal article said Wednesday.

Or at least, that is one possible explanation.

So many rats have drowned in Cambodia's worst flooding in over a decade that the cross-border trade in the rodent's meat has plummeted, Prime Minister Hun Sen said Wednesday.

"Each year 17 tons (about 37,000 pounds) of rats are exported to Vietnam. This year there is a shortage of rats for export because the rats have died in the floods," he said, citing reports from officials at the southern Chrey Thom border checkpoint.

Several women in Nabatiyeh caught a thief on Wednesday after he robbed one of their neighbors, the National News Agency reported.

NNA said that a 29-year-old Syrian entered a woman’s house in Ain al-Jamal neighborhood in Zebdine and asked her for food.

Two hyenas escaped from a South African wildlife park Wednesday by chewing through an electric fence during a power outage, but were recaptured within half an hour, the park said.

"The power went off... and the hyenas -- who will chew through wire and even iron bars -- managed to escape," said Earl Smith, general manager of the Lion Park, located just outside Johannesburg.

After vowing a single-minded focus on jobs, President Barack Obama's Republican foes in the House of Representatives called a vote late Tuesday to reaffirm "In God We Trust" as the national motto.

Lawmakers voted 396-9 in favor of a symbolic resolution, crafted by Republican Representative Randy Forbes and sure to appeal to the party's religious conservative base with the November 2012 elections on the horizon.