A goldfish called George was on the mend in Australia Tuesday after undergoing "high risk" brain surgery in an operation the vet described as "fiddly".

The 10-year-old fish had a tumor protruding from its head, leaving his owner with two options: to have it operated on or have the fish put to sleep.

A Chinese man was arrested in Colombo while trying to smuggle out swallows' nests with a street value of $50,000 on Tuesday, hours before the country's president was due to arrive.

The man was carrying nearly five kilograms (11 pounds) of the rare birds' nests, a delicacy in China, customs spokesman Leslie Gamini told Agence France Presse.

A 9-foot Columbian boa constrictor named Trinity that escaped its southwest Idaho cage has been found after two days on the loose.

Trinity didn't appear to have traveled far after being spotted Sunday in the garage that holds the snake's cage.

North Korea's reporters at the Asian Games will have to file stories using fax because their web access is restricted in South Korea, an official said Tuesday.

Seoul's Ministry of Unification said North Korean media would not be given special access to their country's websites, which are blocked in South Korea.

Cable channel VH1 said Monday it's picking up a second season of its edgy reality series "Dating Naked," in which hip young singles take it all off in their quest for true love.

The hour-long show has pulled about a million TV viewers every week in the United States, and as many as 750,000 online streams per week, since its premiere in July.

Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman's giant white rabbit, which drew more than two million visitors on show in Taiwan, was partially damaged by a fire when workers were trying to dismantle it, organizers said Monday.

The left hand, left ear and part of the torso of the rabbit, designed exclusively for the 11-day show in northern Taoyuan county that ended on Sunday, were burnt after a fire started on the lawn where it was being displayed, organizers said.

Officials in Northern California are accusing a nudist resort of stealing water during the state's historic drought.

The San Jose Mercury News (http://bit.ly/1xRDM6S ) reports that rangers with the Midpeninsula Open Space District descended on Lupin Lodge near Los Gatos on Thursday, saying the clothing-optional resort was illegally taking water from a nearby upstream waterfall.

A county government building in southern New Mexico stinks.

And the Alamogordo Daily News reports (http://goo.gl/d6RtjW) that Otero County officials are deciding whether to relocate staff that can no longer put up with the putrid smell in the Administration Annex Building's basement.

Body odor is among 52 criteria that officials at San Diego International Airport use to judge taxi drivers. Taxi drivers say that smacks of prejudice and discrimination.

For years, inspectors with the San Diego Regional Airport Authority run down their checklist for each cabbie — proof of insurance, functioning windshield wipers, adequate tire treads, good brakes. Drivers are graded pass, fail or needs fixing.

Zeus, the Great Dane who in 2012 earned the Guinness World Record as tallest dog in the world, has died at age five, a local U.S. newspaper said Friday.

Zeus died last week of old age, owner Kevin Doorlag told the Kalamazoo Gazette, a local daily in the midwestern U.S. state of Michigan. He would have celebrated his sixth birthday in November.