The England Under-19 women's team qualified for the European Championships in bizarre fashion after scoring a penalty in a replay of the closing seconds of their match against Norway on Thursday.

The qualifier in Belfast resumed in stoppage-time with England trailing 2-1 and about to take a penalty after UEFA, European football's governing body, took the unprecedented step of ordering the conclusion of the match to be replayed because of a refereeing error.

A Croatian man could not believe his eyes when he received a parcel containing a wallet he misplaced 14 years ago -- full of more money than he originally lost, a newspaper reported Friday.

"First I though that someone was joking with me so I went to check whether the money was real," Ivica Jerkovic, from a village in eastern Croatia, told the 24 sata daily.

From calling for a Buddhist temple to a place of worship for Jedis, Turkish students have found a novel way to oppose controversial plans to build mosques on their campuses in the officially secular country.

Students at Istanbul Technical University (ITU) have launched an online petition on change.org sarcastically urging the building of a Buddhist temple in response to a plan to construct a mosque.

Four Amazonian monkeys due to be transferred from Sweden to Saudi Arabia have been left stranded in a Stockholm zoo after a diplomatic row prompted Riyadh to stop issuing business visas.

The Pygmy marmosets -- among the world's smallest primates at less than 15 centimetres (6 inches) long -- were born a year ago and had been due to be moved to a Saudi zoo outside the capital Riyadh.

The owner of a 17-pound Siamese cat named Liam says he has nearly used up his nine lives after getting shocked on a power pole in Grants Pass and falling 25 feet.

Jennifer Kagay tells The Grants Pass Daily Courier (http://bit.ly/1DpyP6v ) she and her husband were lying in bed early Tuesday when they heard a "bang" and the power went out.

A hearing into a massive graft scandal at Brazil's state oil firm Petrobras was interrupted Thursday when a protester unleashed several rodents including mice, hamsters and gerbils on proceedings, sparking chaos at Congress.

The small brown creatures were released by an unknown suspect in the middle of the hearing, interrupting a statement by ruling Workers Party (PT) treasurer Joao Vaccari Neto and briefly creating chaos among journalists and politicians as the rodents scampered across the floor. 

Police have released surveillance images of a wanted man dubbed the "Mrs. Doubtfire" bandit because he was disguised as a woman during a bank robbery in California.

The Santa Cruz Sentinel newspaper reports (http://bit.ly/1akHaNf ) the suspect was seen acting suspiciously Friday inside a U.S. Bank branch in Santa Cruz.

For those who jump at shadows: an opulent mansion with seven panic rooms and a secret staircase goes on the block this week in Florida.

Bidding opens Friday on the 8,125 square foot (750 square meter) villa in Homestead, Florida.

Last week, 26-year-old Lance Futch donned a white polo shirt and drove to Hill Air Force Base for what he believed was a chance to be in the audience during a news conference with a "senior White House official."

Instead, he found himself sitting at a small table just one seat away from President Barack Obama.

Canadian police launched an investigation Wednesday into the shooting death of a goose named after the Duchess of Cambridge that has left the bird's mate William and local townsfolk "heartbroken."

"There is an ongoing and active investigation into this unfortunate incident," Ontario Provincial Police Constable Glen Staley told Agence France Presse.