Election officials in Britain have warned voters not to share pictures taken of themselves in polling booths as they cast ballots on Thursday, warning that a "selfie" could land them in jail.

The Electoral Commission has said that while it is not illegal to take a selfie, sharing an image that showed -- accidentally or not -- how someone had voted would infringe rules on voting secrecy and could lead to a six-month prison sentence.

Confectionery-maker Cadbury said Friday it has created a new taste sensation by combining its well-loved milk chocolate with an unusual flavor -- Australia's famous, sharply-savoury spread Vegemite.

Cadbury Australia said the new product was "surprisingly delicious" and one of four new flavor combinations to hit the shelves in coming weeks -- along with pretzel and peanut, salted caramel, and golden toffee.

A humorous social media trend declaring solidarity with Labour leader Ed Miliband went viral on the eve of Thursday's election, which will decide whether he becomes British prime minister.

Supporters of Miliband, whose awkward manner was definingly captured in a much re-produced photo of him eating a bacon sandwich, uploaded pictures of themselves messily eating food in solidarity.

A fraudulent composer once dubbed "Japan's Beethoven", but who was neither deaf nor especially musical, is set to star in a documentary film about his charade, a report said Thursday.

Mamoru Samuragochi rocketed to fame in the 1990s with classical compositions that provided the soundtrack to video games including Resident Evil, claiming then to have a degenerative condition that affected his hearing.

A Japanese zoo said Thursday it is rethinking the name of a baby monkey after a public poll decided on "Charlotte", following complaints it was disrespectful to Britain's newborn princess.

Mt. Takasaki Wild Monkey Park announced the name Wednesday after it came top in a vote, a tradition at the zoo for the first macaque monkey born each year.

A group of lawmakers from India's ruling party were given a dressing down in front of their peers in parliament after they accidentally voted against a key government bill.

The 12 lawmakers from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) hit the red button instead of the green in the lower house of parliament on Wednesday during voting on a tax reform bill.

A man snorkeling in the Colorado River near the Arizona and California border was terrified — and later embarrassed — when he came across two fake skeletons sitting in lawn chairs about 40 feet underwater.

The man reported the skeletons to the La Paz County Sheriff's Office on Monday, launching a hunt for what authorities believed could be real bodies.

Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has revealed his computer programming skills after sharing on Facebook a Sudoku puzzle-solver code he wrote.

Lee, 63, a first-class mathematics graduate from the University of Cambridge in Britain, posted a screenshot of the code written in the C++ programming language.

Police say a 95-year-old World War II veteran used his cane to fight off a would-be robber in Manchester, New Hampshire.

Arthur Kamberis was leaving a pharmacy on Saturday when a man approached and reached for his wallet, which was in a zippered pocket. Kamberis started to fight him off and hit him several times with his cane. A passer-by helped Kamberis, and the attacker fled.

Cambodia's royal oxen refused to eat any rice grain on Wednesday during an ancient ritual to predict the country's agricultural fortunes, raising fears of a poor rice harvest among superstitious citizens.

Thousands of people gathered to observe the animals at the live televised royal ploughing ceremony, presided over by King Norodom Sihamoni, in a football field in northwestern Battambang province.